Are We Getting Smarter? by James R Flynn – review John Naughton on life, intelligence and the 'smart tax'
All you need is love bombing Psychologist Oliver James on how his new technique can transform children with common emotional or behavioural problems
Vagina: A New Biography by Naomi Wolf – review Can women only be creative if they're having great sex? Rachel Cooke on a dotty theory
Vagina: A New Biography by Naomi Wolf – review Does this book reveal an existential crisis among women or merely tell us more than we wanted to know about its author, asks Jenny Turner
Unmastered: A Book on Desire, Most Difficult to Tell by Katherine Angel – review Katherine Angel puts her own sex life on the page in this fragmentary, giddily joyful study of female desire, writes Olivia Laing
The Children’s Hospital by Chris Adrian – review Stuart Kelly on an ambitious, 'astonishingly good' allegory
Difficult Mothers by Terri Apter – review A discussion of good and bad mothers is not good enough for Rachel Cusk
A life in writing: Tim Parks 'I couldn't really see a painting or a film or a game of football until I had thought about it in words, or preferably talked about it, or better still written about it'