Cultural Capital

A photography essay including work by Philippe Chancel, Raphaël Dallaporta, Pieter Hugo, Santu Mofokeng, Zanele Muholi, Jo Ractliffe, Thabiso Sekgala and Alain Willaume. Photography Editor: Rebecca McClelland.

The first complete Georgian-language production of Eve Ensler's feminist performance piece The Vagina Monologues caused substantial controversy. Tara Isabella Burton meets two of the women behind it.

He rarely speaks about the ethics of working alone as against for Disney or Warner Brothers, but Brian K Vaughan's work speaks volumes about the importance of creative freedom.

Birds, an exclusive short story by Hanif Kureishi, Mexican art and Elizabeth Taylor.

George might be the favourite name for the new royal, but how about a Eustace, Alfonso or Arthur? He wouldn't be our first.

Drake Doremus's pale blue drama stars Guy Pearce as a middle-aged musician looking for a break from his humdrum life. When British exchange student Sophie Williams (Felicity Jones) arrives, he sees a second chance to regain his youth.

Amy Licence reminds us of the royal children who shaped the course of history, only to recede into obscurity.

The critics' verdicts on Hurd and Young, Higashida and McCleen.

Tom Humberstone's observational comic for the New Statesman.

This week's books pages feature everything from Disraeli to walls, futuristic distopias to an autism memoir.

"That's what they're afraid of… you."

The unmasking of Rowling as the author of The Cuckoo's Calling and its subsequent meteoric success has demonstrated that celebrity trumps gender when it comes to book sales. But what about all the writers who will never achieve a fraction of Rowling's fame? Can writing under a different-gendered pseudonym make a difference?

It's the age-old rivalry that makes matches like this weekend's Test so thrilling to watch.

"Robert Galbraith" was critically acclaimed, but it takes Rowling to be commercially successful.