Culture
Into the woods
Sex and Snow White: how Grimm should children’s books be?
The German authors suggest very, but today trends run the opposite way
Thinking outside the God complex
Are mystics kooks or valuable disrupters?
A realist’s refreshing take on mysticism
No crime, plenty of punishment
Jimmy Lai’s trial is a headline-worthy example of injustice
A new biography aims to keep the public’s attention on the pro-democracy tycoon
Back Story
Ovation inflation has spread from Broadway to London’s West End
Why do dud plays get standing ovations?
Going soft
Millennials and Gen Z are falling hard for stuffed animals
Plushies are cute, cuddly and costly
Free speech in France
Ten years after the Charlie Hebdo attack, satire is under siege
Public support is waning for the right to offend
Sympathy for the devil
Why do rebels and revolutionaries love “Paradise Lost”?
John Milton’s epic poem has galvanised rabble-rousers for centuries
Luces, cámara, acción!
The Colombian powerhouse behind some of streaming’s biggest hits
If you enjoyed “Narcos” or “One Hundred Years of Solitude”, you have Dynamo to thank
Strange and familiar places
What Haruki Murakami’s fans get wrong about him
He is not so much a surrealist as a dogged observer of solitude
Salt of the earth
The British take their crisps more seriously than any other nation
No other snack bridges the class divide in the same way
Festival of lights, stars and stripes
There is more to Hanukkah gifts than meets the eye
How American Jews reshaped an ancient, minor holiday