Culture

Survival stories

Could your marriage survive a shipwreck?

“Maurice and Maralyn”, a new book about a couple stranded almost four months at sea, makes you wonder

Take me to Texas

What lies behind Beyoncé’s country turn?

The star singer has always been a canny interpreter of musical trends

A different sort of art heist

Museums are becoming more expensive

Will it kill off future patronage and attendance?

Where the wild thing is

How “The Gruffalo” went global

The children’s book, first published 25 years ago, rewrote the rules for success

World in a dish

How moussaka made it into the pantheon of Greek gastronomy

Patriotism revolutionised a classic dish

Inequality

The fallacious case for abolishing the rich

Arguments for caps on income and wealth are simple, rousing and wrong

The sports page

Why cheat in marathons?

Not for medals but for likes

A miracle on 92nd Street

New York’s 92nd Street Y turns 150

Its reinvention holds lessons for other cultural centres

House of horrors

One of the smallest museums in Africa might be its most important

A curator’s battle to commemorate Germany’s forgotten genocide in Namibia

Do as I say, not as I do

A new book rebukes the “luxury beliefs” of America’s upper class

“Troubled” is both a memoir and an analysis of the muddled thinking on college campuses

Jurassic spark

How the discovery of dinosaur fossils caused a revolution

“Impossible Monsters” looks at 70 years that changed human thought

Back Story

Kate Winslet explores how to be a good autocrat

“The Regime” is a silly show with a deadly serious point