Turning back the clock: how to stop (or slow) signs of ageing – live chat

Emma G Keller: Lauren Kessler spent a year investigating the ageing process and what – if anything – we can do to prevent it. She'll take your questions live today at 1pm ET

The best books on Kenya: start your reading here

Pushpinder Khaneka: Kenya’s transition from colonial rule to independence and fragile democracy provides the unifying theme across a trio of classics

Scottish independence campaign has almost no chance, says Nate Silver

Political polling guru says data on referendum is 'pretty definitive' unless there is a major crisis in England

Land of Second Chances: The Impossible Rise of Rwanda’s Cycling Team by Tim Lewis – review

Tim Lewis's account of the creation of the Rwandan cycling team is far from the usual rags-to-riches tale, writes Ben East

Walls: Travels Along the Barricades by Marcello Di Cintio – review

A tour of the world's most disputed border areas becomes a forceful study in human suffering, writes Anthony Sattin

Hollywood banks on Jane Austen film to discover what women really want

The rom com Austenland is made by women for women – and the industry hopes it will herald a wave of box-office hits

Nigeria: Soldiers of Fortune – review

Historian Max Siollun's new book dismantles the military machine that rules Nigeria in exquisite, scholarly detail, says Monica Mark

How the nations known as Pigs got an Economist-style makeover

Sean O'Hagan: Carlos Spottorno's satirical photobook uses humour and stunning images to confront economic mudslinging

Kate Winslet to seek revenge with needles in The Dressmaker

Rosalie Ham's award-winning Australian gothic novel coming to screen, co-starring Judy Davis as Winslet's mother

How the Gay Liberation Front Manifesto helped to shape me

Peter Tatchell: A book that changed me: The 1971 manifesto expanded my civil rights perspective into a radical critique of heterosexism, male privilege and gender roles

Nora Ephron taught me all about feminism – and about sharp writing

Hadley Freeman: A book that changed me: The Crazy Salad essays gave me what I was looking for: a more humorous, outsider's interpretation of US feminism in the 1970s

Paganism, part 4: the literary and artistic underpinnings

Liz Williams: How to believe: Authors as diverse as Rudyard Kipling, E Nesbit, and JRR Tolkien have shaped modern paganism as greatly as any theological underpinnings

Mary Beard is latest woman to be sent bomb threat on Twitter

Historian is targeted as many boycott Twitter in protest at slow response to abusive tweets and rape threats

There Was a Country by Chinua Achebe – review

Chinua Achebe's lament for his native Biafra and the decline of Nigeria is powerful and moving, writes Justin Cartwright

Band of Angels: The Forgotten World of Early Christian Women by Kate Cooper – review

The lives of early Christian women are cleverly pieced together in this engaging history, writes Natasha Tripney