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
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