Pop and rockInterviewCult punks Glassjaw return: 'It was offensive. You don’t talk to a woman like that'Daniel Montesinos-DonaghyThe post-hardcore band were loved for their knotty, emotional songs – and despised for their misogynistic lyrics. As they release their first album for 15 years, are they changed men? It has taken 15 years for Glassjaw’s Daryl Palumbo and Justin Beck to make a new album. In between, there have been health troubles (Palumbo’s struggles with Crohn’s disease have cancelled many a UK tour), side-projects with ex-Gorillaz mastermind Dan the Automator, business endeavours, marriage, children, life.

CircumcisionEmboldened by the body-positive movement and a sense of rage, a growing chorus is pushing back against a common custom The media officer of one of the UK’s top medical schools doesn’t realise she hasn’t muted herself as she puts me on hold. She sniggers with her colleague as she passes on my request – to speak to an expert on male circumcision – before informing me they don’t have one.

The ObserverRedditThe use by white supremacists of Reddit to organise last year’s violent rally in Virginia was a catalyst for change at the digital giant. In an extract from her new book We Are the Nerds, Christine Lagorio-Chafkin looks at how the site has tried to detoxify itself As the clock ticked up to 9pm on Friday 11 August 2017, more than 200 men snaked down a dark, long expanse of grass in Charlottesville, Virginia, called Nameless Field.

Books blogChildren and teenagersKermit the Frog and other terrors: the appeal of scary children's booksA Wisconsin woman wants kids kept away from the popular puppet’s ‘traumatic’ book about poverty, but children crave disturbing stories We’d go to the library once a week when I was little. While my little sister always chose to take home Anthony Browne’s Gorilla, I would uneasily check to see if a certain title was there. Just looking at the cover frightened me almost too much to bear, but I couldn’t resist doing it.

Pop and rockObituaryPeter Overend Watts obituaryBass guitarist with glam rock band Mott the HoopleEven amid the glittering extravagance of the glam rock era, Peter Overend Watts, who has died of throat cancer aged 69, managed to stand out from the crowd. As bass player with Mott the Hoople, Watts was a lean and lanky figure, adorned with long, luxuriant hair and prone to performing in stack-heeled thigh-high boots and assorted androgynous costumes.