Staying in is the new going out
Laurie Taylor embraces the joys of domestic quiescence.
Mind, Body & Life
Period pains: how the menstrual taboo is being challenged
Social taboos over menstruation cause undue shame to millions of women – but it is finally being understood as a human rights issue.
Desperately seeking cultural capital
Laurie Taylor goes to the opera.
Becoming British
As a teenager, I fought hard to feel like I belonged. Now, that right is being undermined – for me and millions of others.
Close encounters of the everyday kind
A new book asks if microdosing LSD could make you happier and more productive. Why might we need such a helping hand?
Keep on taking the tablets
Laurie Taylor goes in search of transcendence and finds some fascinating shoelaces.
“Shyness is very difficult to define precisely because it’s so contradictory”
Q&A with Joe Moran, author of "Shrinking Violets: A Field Guide to Shyness".
Book review: The Sex Lives of English Women
This book, detailing women's sexual lives, purports to show raw womanhood - but lacks an overarching analysis.
I’ve got that shrinking feeling
Laurie Taylor discovers he is losing height.
How can we make sense of death?
Q&A with Andrew Stark, author of a new book on the stories we tell ourselves to comprehend mortality.