In 2001, six-month-old Kareena needed a liver transplant and was too sick to leave hospital. When US flights were grounded after 9/11, strangers and Tennessee National Guard members moved the donor liver nearly 800 miles from Nashville to Houston. Twenty-five…

The Schlumberger heiress Christophe de Menil, an eccentric swan and patron of the avant-garde from Houston to Amagansett, spent her last years separated from the artist friends she’d spent a lifetime collecting. Those friends blame her daughter.