Ben Goldacre: ‘It’s appalling … like phone hacking or MPs’ expenses’

Ben Goldacre's first book, Bad Science, shredded the claims of homeopaths and fake doctors. For his second he has his sights trained on the pharmaceutical industry. Ian Tucker puts your questions to him

The Wisdom of Psychopaths by Kevin Dutton – review

A convincing study shows that business leaders and serial killers share a mindset, writes Tim Adams

Thomas Szasz obituary

Psychiatrist who fought coercion and denied the existence of mental illness

Are We Getting Smarter? by James R Flynn – review

John Naughton on life, intelligence and the 'smart tax'

Griffith Edwards obituary

Expert on alcohol and drug addiction who pioneered new forms of treatment

All you need is love bombing

Psychologist Oliver James on how his new technique can transform children with common emotional or behavioural problems

Vagina: A New Biography by Naomi Wolf – review

Can women only be creative if they're having great sex? Rachel Cooke on a dotty theory

Vagina: A New Biography by Naomi Wolf – review

Does this book reveal an existential crisis among women or merely tell us more than we wanted to know about its author, asks Jenny Turner

Unmastered: A Book on Desire, Most Difficult to Tell by Katherine Angel – review

Katherine Angel puts her own sex life on the page in this fragmentary, giddily joyful study of female desire, writes Olivia Laing

The Children’s Hospital by Chris Adrian – review

Stuart Kelly on an ambitious, 'astonishingly good' allegory