‘Heat, floods and droughts make men more violent to women’: Natasha Walter on eco-feminism in a world on fire

The author has become acutely aware of how the climate crisis is affecting women – and, in her new book, she argues that it’s time for mainstream western feminists to join the dots

Harriet Clark spent a lifetime visiting her mother, an ex-Weather Underground member, in prison: ‘The US has always used family separation to destabilize’

Clark was an infant when her mother was arrested. Her debut novel asks what it’s like for children who have only ever known a parent in prison

Menopause is tough. But it’s fantastic being a woman in her 60s

My girlfriends and I have more fun, more adventures, more independence than ever before. And as for the sex …

‘I was mortally offended’: writers on the throwaway comments that changed their lives

Can a sentence affect the course of your life? Five authors reveal the interactions that transformed the way they saw themselves – and the world

‘One of the most profound encounters of my life’: could existential therapist Emmy van Deurzen change the way you think?

Her philosophical approach to therapy has become a global phenomenon, and inspired a new book. Could a session with her change Sophie McBain’s life?

‘This is so taboo’: Kimberley Nixon on the hell of perinatal OCD – and how she survived it

After the birth of her son during lockdown, the Welsh actor was flooded by disturbing thoughts she couldn’t shake, a plunge into darkness and isolation. She discusses how it changed her and what helped her recover

Do stronger borders ever work?

Leaders have thrown up walls and barriers throughout history – but their effects are unpredictable

I yearned to be a mother. Why did I feel nothing when my daughter was finally born?

I had presumed I would love her instantly – but a traumatic birth led to devastating numbness

Michael Thompson obituary

Anthropologist who studied the values that society applies in making decisions and climber in the first party to ascend the south-west face of Everest

‘The Moon and The Zoo’: Simon Armitage poem celebrates 200 years of ZSL

Zoological Society of London commissions poet laureate for animation to mark its 200th anniversary

The Guardian view on the Women’s Library at 100: a cause for celebration but not complacency

Editorial: The ups and downs of the collection launched by Millicent Fawcett make it an apt symbol of an ongoing struggle

Clare Gittings obituary

Other lives: Learning manager who made visiting schoolchildren feel welcome at the National Portrait Gallery

Original Sin by Kathryn Paige Harden review – are criminals born or made?

A psychologist delves into the genetics of bad behaviour in a book littered with fascinating scientific findings

A new Austen drama made me wonder: is the fate of bookish young women really so different today?

The Other Bennet Sister reminded me of my own self-consciousness – and worry that girls still have to play down their cleverness, says Guardian columnist Rhiannon Lucy Cosslett

‘A new world is being born’: author Rebecca Solnit on the ‘slow revolution’ the far right cannot tolerate

It’s easy to focus on authoritarians and their petty victories. But zoom out and the picture is more encouraging, says the woman who popularised the term ‘mansplaining’, whether it’s in feminism, or the environment, or civil rights