First person

‘My sexual recovery after cancer’

After cancer treatment, the author tuned into the pleasure of touch in other ways

‘The torment that drove my mother to kill my father’

The writer reflects on a crime which shaped his own life, 10 years after coercive control was made a crime

‘Model trains are my meditation’

Model railways offer a ticket to a safe world – no wonder it's good for hobbyists' mental health

My Al-Anon sponsor turned on me

When a writer's sponsor adopted conspiracy theories, she had to make a hard decision

David Whitehouse on loss – and a vanishing woman

After his father died, David Whitehouse regretted the things he’d never know about him, but unravelling the story of a stranger who’d disappeared helped make sense of his loss

Jimi Famurewa: ‘If there was a Toblerone, it meant dad was back’

Food was always present – but my father wasn’t

‘Without memory and words, what is left?’

As a writer, words mean everything, but facing her own memory loss gives an author an unexpected insight into what it means to be the person she is

Joel Golby: Men, masculinity and Mounjaro

More and more men are choosing to use weight-loss drugs. Why?

Jeremy Atherton Lin: the gayest love story ever told

A relationship with so many obstacles was always going to be messy – but it’s also that’s what made it so strong

I found out my older lover was cheating... from his therapist

Geoff Dyer: portrait of the ironist as a young man

In extracts from his new memoir, writer Geoff Dyer describes what it was like growing up… as Geoff Dyer