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BooksIn his new book, Silent Cavalry, the former New York Times editor tells of loyalties long suppressed in his native Alabama “Norman Mailer said every writer has one book that’s a gift from God.” So says Howell Raines, former executive editor of the New York Times, now author of a revelatory book on the civil war, Silent Cavalry: How Union Soldiers From Alabama Helped Sherman Burn Atlanta – And Then Got Written Out of History.

‘At once vivid and faded’: detail from Imagine Wanting Only This by Kristen Radtke. Photograph: Kristen Radtke/Pantheon‘At once vivid and faded’: detail from Imagine Wanting Only This by Kristen Radtke. Photograph: Kristen Radtke/PantheonGraphic novel of the monthAutobiography and memoirReviewKristen Radtke’s restless memoir of her search for abandoned places is like Planet of the Apes as told by ShelleyAt the end of Planet of the Apes (accept no imitations: I mean the 1968 version), Charlton Heston, who plays an astronaut called Taylor, rides off into the distance.

The ObserverNeuroscienceWhy asking whether your brain is male or female is the wrong question You receive an invitation, emblazoned with a question: “A bouncing little ‘he’ or a pretty little ‘she’?” The question is your teaser for the “gender reveal party” to which you are being invited by an expectant mother who, at more than 20 weeks into her pregnancy, knows what you don’t: the sex of her child. After you arrive, explains cognitive neuroscientist Gina Rippon in her riveting new book, The Gendered Brain, the big reveal will be hidden within some novelty item, such as a white iced cake, and will be colour-coded.

Marina O'Loughlin on restaurantsRestaurantsReview'The weaselly, underpowered guacamole is not a patch on what I knock up for an al-desko lunch'Mayfair has become so weird and foreign, I've taken to pretty much avoiding it. If I want weird and foreign, I'll go abroad. Apart from anything else, I'm scared of the natives: its restaurant population, with few exceptions, is savage, ready to scalp you at the first sign of weakness. Order a side dish and see.

Sex The secret to female orgasm? Try the 'golden trio' of moves – video It’s often been described as ‘elusive’ but a study from a team of US researchers suggests that a combination of genital stimulation, deep kissing and oral sex is the ‘golden trio’ for women when it comes to increasing their likelihood of reaching orgasm with a sexual partner Source: Getty Fri 24 Feb 2017 03.

The ObserverVanity fareShe is the legendary New York socialite: stick thin, fabulously wealthy and dressed head to toe in couture. Here, Nan Kempner reveals why she hates fat people... but loves high fashion and junk foodThe entrance to the Bryant Park tents - the eye of the storm during New York's fashion week - was a torrential frothing current of clothes power. 'I'm not really a show person. All that elbowing and pushing and shoving,' Nan Kempner told me as we drove there in her motor.

'A new perspective': swimming pools from above – in pictures Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Share via Email Australian aerial photographer Brad Walls first became interested in documenting pools as a way of remembering his holidays but as time went on he realised there was beauty in the minimalist shapes, colours and textures. He uses drones to take his images and focuses on composition rather than the latest equipment.

ModelsInterviewAdwoa Aboah on acting, recovery and her racial awakening: ‘I am a Black woman. I have a lot to say’Hannah J DaviesShe is one of the world’s most in-demand models, but it wasn’t always this way. As she gets her big acting break in Top Boy, she explains how she got through a tumultuous decade A few weeks ago, Adwoa Aboah experienced what she describes as “a sombre moment”. “I was at my mum and dad’s, clearing out my childhood room,” she says, her voice a little shaky.

Jennifer Aniston’s first Instagram post is a selfie with her former Friends co-stars. Photograph: InstagramJennifer Aniston’s first Instagram post is a selfie with her former Friends co-stars. Photograph: InstagramJennifer Aniston This article is more than 4 years oldJennifer Aniston’s Instagram debut sends platform crashingThis article is more than 4 years oldFormer social media recluse’s Friends selfie attracts 116,000 followers in an hour Jennifer Aniston’s new Instagram page is “on a break” after crashing hours after the star signed up for the platform.