Kama Sutra: A Guide to the Art of Pleasure, translated by AND Haksar – review

It won't improve your sex life, but the Kama Sutra still makes for a fascinating read, says Hanif Kureishi

Henry’s Demons by Patrick and Henry Cockburn – review

A father-and-son account gives Charlotte Moore a greater understanding of living with schizophrenia

Henry’s Demons: Living with Schizophrenia, a Father and Son’s Story by Patrick and Henry Cockburn – review

A memoir by the veteran war reporter Patrick Cockburn and his son offers a powerful inside story of mental illness, says Alexander Linklater

The Tell-Tale Brain by VS Ramachandran – review

A neuroscientist's explanation of how brain damage can unlock hidden talents is gripping, says Ian Thomson

The Kama Sutra’s lessons for modern lovers

Sam Jordison: As well as a welcome reminder that ancient wisdom is all too often timeworn inanity, it also teaches us that obscenity is nothing new

Proust Was a Neuroscientist by Jonah Lehrer – review

It is the humanities that tell us what it is like to be human, says Simon Ings

Author, author: Lisa Appignanesi on the language of love

'Love is one of our last socially sanctioned forms of madness'

Battle Hymn of the Tiger Mother by Amy Chua – review

Amy Chua reckons tough love is good for children. Terri Apter can't wait to read their memoirs

The Immortalization Commission by John Gray – review

Thank God – or whomever– for this look at transcendentalism says John Banville

The Emperor of All Maladies: A Biography of Cancer by Siddhartha Mukherjee – review

This magnificent study of cancer suggests that, for all medicine's advances, we cannot beat a disease that is a distorted version of ourselves, says Alexander Linklater