Putting our lives on the page

Alison Bechdel turned her relationship with her father into a bestselling memoir. Now it's her mother's turn. By Kira Cochrane

Where there’s muck there’s a class

Nick Duerden recalls his first – and best – school trip to a farm run by writer Michael Morpurgo and his wife, Clare, who have given thousands of inner-city children a taste of nature since the 1970s

A voyage round Agatha Christie

Joanna Moorhead meets Agatha Christie's grandson and finds there's more to the Queen of Crime than meets the eye ... her love of surfing, for example

Why is there so much misogyny online?

The conversation: Why do women face such misogyny in the media, particularly online? TV presenter Miriam O'Reilly and feminist writer Nina Power share their thoughts and experiences

What I see in the mirror: Mary Beard

'Some days the person I glimpse takes me back 40 years. It's the 17-year-old me in the glass, the kid with the dreamy smile who fancied she looked like a pre-Raphaelite damsel'

Zombies, Run! – review

Novelist Naomi Alderman has given her backing to this running aid/audio adventure app, writes Toby Moses