Julia McKinnell
How to move on from unrequited love
An academic plumbs the roots of obsession to understand her own
How to parent a ‘struggling’ child
As a parent, Ann Douglas has helped her four children weather oppositional defiant disorder, ADHD, Asperger’s syndrome and extreme depression, respectively.
Jessie Close’s resilience in the face of mental illness: Book review
Born with beauty, brains and the benefit of a trust fund, Glenn Close’s younger sister has spent most of her life suffering from mental illness
Asexuals and the challenge of navigating a sex-obsessed world
‘Believing that love isn’t fully there unless sex is desired, too, is like believing a tailless dog is never happy’
The dirt on archaeologists: Book review
Johnson’s book about archaeologists—their passion, tenacity and sense of humour—is filled with many fun (and disgusting) facts
Can you get fitter at 50 than you’ve ever been in your life?
What if it were possible to restore the body to peak physical condition? Author Margaret Webb finds out
Remembering the sad, odd, writerly life of Roberto Bolaño
Book review: Mónica Maristain’s ‘Bolano: A Biography in Conversations’
Life and Death on the Front Lines of Pediatric Surgery
Small offers a hair-raising account of the state of pediatric surgery
Liquid gold
The true story of a plot to poison one of the world’s most expensive wines is a satisfying whodunit
The story behind the novel Dr. Zhivago
Russian poet Boris Pasternak’s laughed off criticisms of his epic love story: ‘I just grin’
How the confessional box contributed to sexual abuse
Book review: ‘The Dark Box: A Secret History of Confession’, by John Cornwell