Madness by Antonia Hylton review – how racism created a mental health crisis in the US

A journalist’s impassioned and rigorous study of a 20th-century psychiatric hospital uncovers how Black Americans were institutionalised by a country still in thrall to the logic of slavery

‘This secret that crippled me for 50 years has been lifted’: Lucy Sante on becoming a trans woman at 67

The American author and critic on being in a band with Jim Jarmusch, the macho pre-Aids world of the gay scene in New York, and on coming out to her wife and son

Tears, fancy-dress tyranny and tedious discourse: it can only be World Book Day

The pressure can be overwhelming – so I gave up on green eggs and ham and found a low-effort solution, says Guardian columnist Rhiannon Lucy Cosslett

‘Ageing isn’t inevitable’: The 100-Year-Life co-author on how to live well for longer

Andrew Scott says we can stop one of humanity’s biggest achievements turning into a dystopian near-future

Among the Trolls by Marianna Spring review – into the cesspit of online hatred

An unflinching exploration of conspiracy theories and their knock-on effects also makes heroic attempts to understand the people behind them

‘Extraordinary’: 101 women narrate A History of Women in 101 Objects audiobook

Miriam Margolyes, Kate Winslet and Gillian Anderson among those giving voice to objects including a femur, a thumbscrew and a glass dildo

Gay, lesbian and intersex whales: our queer sea has much to teach us

The first documented sex between two male humpback whales is just the latest challenge to our presumptions about sexuality

A Sign of Her Own by Sarah Marsh review – a vivid journey into a world without hearing

A deaf woman in the 19th-century US is introduced to Alexander Graham Bell’s flawed tutelage in a multifaceted debut novel

Revolutionary Acts by Jason Okundaye review – bringing Black gay history to life

This groundbreaking debut tells the stories of six radicals who were among the first out Black gay men in Britain

Wendy Mitchell obituary

Writer and dementia campaigner who believed that people should have the right to choose their own death

‘Mrs Sherlock Holmes’ and the other real female sleuths who were written out of history

An opera diva, a queen of surveillance and Selfridges’ ‘secret service’ head were among the women who rivalled male private eyes and whose stories are told in a new book

What is there to lose? Why I said yes to a blind date at 75

Dating when you’re over 60 is a whole new ballgame, says novelist Deborah Moggach, but that definitely isn’t a reason to give up trying

Assisted dying advocate and author Wendy Mitchell dies aged 68

Mitchell, who had dementia, announces her death in letter published posthumously on her blog

Rage, relief and recognition: the TV version of my book Breathtaking has opened a floodgate

During the Covid pandemic, NHS staff were treated as expendable, says Rachel Clarke, a palliative care doctor and the author of Breathtaking

‘Indescribably filthy’: historian Emily Cockayne on the letters that landed her a film deal

As Wicked Little Letters with Olivia Colman hits cinemas, the associate professor who unearthed the real-life case explains how petty grievances and prejudices got out of hand in 1920s Sussex