Men in the psychiatrist’s chair
Andrew Rissik salutes Anthony Clare's On Men: Masculinity in Crisis, a passionate polemic for a new kind of masculinity
Our daily bread
In Majorca, the traditional peasant fare of pa amb oli - bread drizzled with olive oil - is enjoying a revival. Here Tomás Graves, son of the poet Robert Graves, celebrates a deceptively simple dish
The new race relations
Latest in the long line of literary genres to arrive in Britain from America is books on black relationships. Helen Kolawole reports
Cow’s milk and cancer
A new book suggests that cutting out dairy produce can reduce the risk of breast cancer. Gillian Ross examines the evidence
Soul stealers
Victoria Davenport on svengalis of the psyche in Mad Men and Medusas and Svengali's Web
Brain matter
Susan Greenfield suggests a cheap thrill theory of the mind in The Private Life of the Brain
A casket and two obsequies to go, please
Thomas Lynch ranges over subjects from fishing to Bible studies in his new collection of essays, Bodies at Motion and at Rest
Mad and proud
Nicholas Lezard celebrates Mad Pride
The radish revolution
New books raving about the miraculous healing properties
of food - be it beetroot or aloe vera - are appearing on an
almost daily basis. Angelique Chrisafis swots up on the
'alfalfa saved my life' school of literature
Wise children
John McCrone on two studies of childhood development that offer little for the anxious parent