In the company of women
Tim Lott ... lone man in a female householdA lot has been written about the effect on the development of the personality by parents on their children. Relatively little has been published on the developmental influences of children on parents. I am con...
The Juice: Vinous Veritas by Jay McInerney
Is Jay McInerney the world's best wine writer? Or is he more interested in women and fast cars?Wine's a tease: it makes you want to talk about it and then a lot of what you say is nonsense. That's understandable, excusable, even inevitable. If you're l...
A brush with death persuaded me to go from fat to fit
Lying in hospital, gasping for air, AJ Jacobs made a pledge – if he made it out alive, he'd turn himself into the embodiment of health and fitness. Would he succeed? This is his year-long diaryIt was supposed to be a relaxing beach holiday with the f...
Q&A: Prue Leith
'My greatest fear? Senility. My mother and grandmother both went off with the fairies'Prue Leith, 72, was born in South Africa. In the early 1960s, she moved to London where she set up a catering firm; she went on to open Leith's Restaurant and Leith'...
Letters: Women’s archive is as relevant today as the struggles it records
Thank you for raising awareness regarding the crisis facing the Women's Library (Women's archive hunts for a saviour, 1 May). Over 50 years ago the Guardian's Mary Stott was instrumental in founding our organisation – the National Women's Register
Letters: A shaming betrayal of cultural heritage
The threat to the Women's Library – a unique collection on women's struggle for equality – is, as Caroline Davies has so eloquently outlined (Women's archive hunts for a saviour, 1 May), an act of cultural vandalism. The library has a national and ...
A room of one’s own: why the Women’s Library should not be made history | Beatrix Campbell
We need to save this unique archive of women's movements and everyday lives that are not documented elsewhereThere will be women of a certain age all over Britain who will have been thinking: one of these days I'll get at those boxes in the loft, in th...
Women’s Library campaign boosted by celebrity support
Sandi Toksvig and Shirley Conran back renowned collection threatened with drastic cuts, and signatures mount on e-petition to Michael GoveAmong the mass of books, magazines, pamphlets, posters and exquisitely stitched banners that pull together the thr...
Digested read: Fifty Shades of Grey by EL James
Who could resist a thrashing from such a gorgeous and enigmatic man? Not my inner goddess, that's for sure"I've got a cold and I can't interview Christian Grey, the enigmatic multimillionaire tycoon, for the student newspaper today," say...
The Ex Factor
He's been the linchpin of top-rating TV for a decade, but we still know little about Cowell the man. This book doesn't help much"Rosebud," croaks Charles Foster Kane with his dying breath, the mysterious utterance symbolic of what drives Orson Welles's...
What is the worst of all words?
A survey by the New Yorker led to a ban on the word 'slacks' – but what is your most loathed lexeme?Mrs Hughes, one of my favourite teachers, momentarily enthralled me in year three when she promised to let my class in on the secret of the worst word...
The conversation: Why is there so much misogyny online?