‘I clicked on a button – and everything changed’: how a DNA test turned my life upside-down
Smart shot
‘I’d hoped to capture the graphic chaos in the window. What I found was an even more tangled scene’: Michael Krupka’s best phone picture
The Q&A
Richard Eyre: ‘My biggest disappointment? At university in the 60s, I thought social justice was going to improve’
Butter author Asako Yuzuki: ‘I’m very far from the ideal Japanese woman’
The kids' quiz
Are blue whales blue, and what is the most common animal? The kids’ quiz
My cultural awakening
My cultural awakening: Leonardo da Vinci made me rethink surgery – I’ve since mended more than 3,000 hearts
The quiz
What links Beyoncé and Jay-Z with Georgie Fame? The Saturday quiz
Spain’s very own sakura: cherry blossom season in the Jerte valley
‘Trump’s not enough. And he knows he’s not enough’: California governor Gavin Newsom on populism, ‘purity tests’ and whether he’ll run for the presidency
Going out, staying in
From The Testament of Ann Lee to Gorillaz: your complete entertainment guide to the week ahead
Blind date
Blind date: ‘I was hoping for a lovely time, a fancy dinner and to meet the love of my life. I got two out of three’
The Tim Dowling column
Tim Dowling: Do I look like a man who would buy stolen wine?
‘A woman screams from a high balcony: “Help me! I’m freezing to death!”’ – novelist James Meek returns to Kyiv