‘We had to leave home for a better future’: Kate Beaton on the brutal, drug-filled reality of life in an oil camp

Before work like Hark! A Vagrant made her famous, the Canadian cartoonist spent two years in the Alberta wilderness, see-sawing between boredom and fear for her safety. Now she is finally ready to tell the story

A Visible Man by Edward Enninful review – inspiring if preening memoir

The editor-in-chief of British Vogue recounts his remarkable journey from fleeing Ghana to head of the venerable fashion magazine

A retro reading treat that’s good enough to eat

Annalisa Barbieri discovers and rediscovers The Joy of Chocolate

Loaded founder James Brown on lads’ mags, lairiness and living to tell the tale: ‘We flew so close to the sun our trainers melted’

The magazine he created became synonymous with bad behaviour in the 90s. Is the enfant terrible of British media now a reformed character?

What have we learned from 50 years of studying porn? ‘Heterosexuality is essentially broken’

In reviewing thousands of research papers, a new book argues our understanding of pornography is riddled with contradictions

Confessions: A Life of Failed Promises by AN Wilson review – a poignant memoir

The controversialist is in a reflective mood as he examines his parents’ troubled relationship and the failures of his first marriage

‘I just go into my head and enjoy it’: the people who can’t stop daydreaming

Psychiatrists may soon recognise ‘maladaptive daydreaming’ as a clinical disorder. But what is it, and how can it be treated?

Lemn Sissay: ‘I’m not angry any more, but it’s a daily battle not to be’

The poet and broadcaster, 55, on the power of forgiveness, growing up in care, loving poetry from the age of 12 and getting his OBE

Sunday with Irvine Welsh: ‘If you sit around waiting for Monday morning, you’re going to feel blue’

The writer tells Rich Pelley how he gets out and about on Sundays in Miami, Edinburgh, the Chilterns and London

Visage outside Blitz nightclub … Sheila Rock’s best photograph

‘Blitz was where all the New Romantics hung out. If you didn’t look good, you didn’t get in. Steve Strange is at the front of the shot – with big hair’

‘I thought drink and drugs enabled my creativity’: Julia Cameron on the drama behind The Artist’s Way

When even Hunter S Thompson tells you to take it easy, you must be overdoing it. The bestselling author talks about marrying Martin Scorsese, sobering up, and writing a bestseller

The big idea: why modern medicine can’t work without stories

Few of us see the same GP twice, but the doctor-patient relationship saves lives

The life aquatic: four books about life on Britain’s rivers and canals

Immerse yourself in real-life adventures from Britain’s canals

Tinder for booklovers: the new app matching like-minded readers

Klerb is like Tinder, but for finding friends who share your taste in books, its developer says. Early signs are it will be a bestseller

Anton Du Beke: ‘I’d clear the floor if I danced at a disco’

The dancer, 56, on channelling his creativity, doing his best, never replying to emails and being mistaken for Rob Brydon