Embracing the Ordinary by Michael Foley – review
Stuart Jeffries on an author who finds magic in the everyday
Our Kind of People by Uzodinma Iweala – review
David Smith is disappointed by the much-feted novelist Uzodinma Iweala's non-fiction account of Aids in Africa
The Spark of Life by Frances Ashcroft – review
David Wootton on a study of humans as electrical machines
Ninety Days by Bill Clegg; Memoirs of an Addicted Brain by Marc Lewis; The Fix by Damian Thompson – review
Three books on modern cravings embrace drug memoir, neuroscience and society's moral slide, writes Nicholas Lezard
Critical eye: book reviews roundup
Missing Out: In Praise of the Unlived Life by Adam Phillips, Ancient Light by John Banville and How Much Is Enough? by Robert and Edward Skidelsky
Experiment Eleven: Deceit and Betrayal in the Discovery of the Cure for Tuberculosis by Peter Pringle – review
The scandalous treatment of a medical pioneer is still shocks Peter Forbes
The Antidote by Oliver Burkeman – review
Oliver Burkeman renounces 'positive thinking' in his droll search for happiness, writes Alexander Larman
The Antidote by Oliver Burkeman – review
Julian Baggini finds that negative thinking is the way forward
Philosophy for Life and Other Dangerous Situations by Jules Evans – review
Cognitive psychology has had little impact on our culture, but this intellectual manual makes a start, writes Alexander Linklater
Rites of way: behind the pilgrimage revival
More and more people are setting out on pilgrimages, for religious, cultural or personal reasons. Robert Macfarlane explores our need to reconnect with landscape and nature
Missing Out: In Praise of the Unlived Life by Adam Phillips – review
James Lasdun is both fascinated and frustrated by a mix of lit crit and psychology
Et cetera: Steven Poole’s non-fiction choice – reviews
Steven Poole on Barbaric Sport by Marc Perelman, Fly and Be Damned by Peter McManners and Self-Esteem by David Bonham-Carter
Underneath the Lemon Tree: A Memoir of Depression and Recovery by Mark Rice-Oxley – review
Kathryn Hughes follows a writer on his journey from mental breakdown to recovery
Circulation: William Harvey’s Revolutionary Idea by Thomas Wright – review
William Harvey's scientific contribution was just as momentous as Darwin's, argues Charles Nicholl
Adam Phillips: a life in writing
'Psychoanalysis can fail people by assuming that the best thing you can do in life is to know yourself. Well, I don't think that's true.' Interview by Susanna Rustin