Sophie McBain

I have spent more time looking at the hard, cracked face of my iPhone than those of my children.

The best crowds are joyful expressions of democracy and belonging. So why do we fear them so much?

Magic Pill, Johann Hari’s study of the rise of diet drugs, sheds light on our deeply dysfunctional food culture.

Also featuring Dispersals by Jessica J Lee and All Things Are Too Small by Becca Rothfeld

When schools closed and friendship went remote during the pandemic, the girls tried to reassure themselves that everything would be OK again once lockdown ended. They’d go out and party and do the nor

When Molly Roden Winter, a teacher and mother-of-two who lives in the yummy-mummy enclave of Park Slope, Brooklyn, receives a flirtatious text from Matt, a good-looking guy she met in a bar, her husba

Before he started work on his new book, Supercommunicators: How to Unlock the Secret Language of Connection, the American journalist Charles Duhigg wrote down all the times he’d communicated badly in

When the American writer Rob Henderson was a baby, his mother would tie him to a chair so that she could get high uninterrupted. He was taken into foster care in Los Angeles at the age of three. His m

Among parenting manuals, one of the most popular and seductive genres is the “Babies Are Better Abroad” book. In these, a hapless first-time mum (or mom) moves from Britain or the US to continental Eu

Unshrinking: How to Fight Fatphobia by Kate Manne When the Cornell philosopher Kate Manne was invited to the UK in 2017 to promote her bestselling first book, Down Girl: The Logic of Misogyny, she dec