Eurofile

A new exhibition is based on the life and works of a man who took part in orgies of rape and torture and boasted he had written the “most impure tale that has ever been told”

Ben Judah’s superb This Is Europe is a tour through the continent’s underbelly, giving voice to the exploited and marginalised

One night in 1989, the greatest gymnast in the world tried to escape from communist Romania

This is a fantastic plate of food, fresh and summery, and ideal for the weather

Discriminating against people on the basis of how they speak is very common, despite the push for diversity in other areas

Sold as the most exciting thing to come out of Europe since the Sex Pistols, his hedonistic lifestyle halted his momentum

Riots in the capital stem from France's inability to deal with the long aftermath of the Algerian War

An all-female team’s battle to win the Le Mans 24-hour race and shake up a stale, male world

Jobriath dreamed of combining Dietrich with Dylan and playing at the Paris Opera. Then reality bit

Marking the centenary of a book whose roots run far wider than just Dublin

A 1988 report wrote off the relic as a medieval fake. But now the science seems to be turning. Could it have been a miracle all along?

The writers have taken a film that I couldn't imagine could ever be improved upon and managed to improve upon it

The Soviet spy agency took its Cold War tactics from a Chinese military strategist who died in 500 BC. The same ideas are now being used against Ukraine

Frank and Percy lets the two old stagers do their thing, which is what makes it work so well

No self-respecting person of any sex or gender should set foot inside London’s members’ clubs

For all life threw at her, the writer never lost the last sliver of an innocence battered irreparably by events outside her control

Broad beans are in season, bouncy and abundant

Europe’s first celebrity is celebrated in a treasure trove of objects at Paris’ Petit Palais

An obsession with what the likes of Pulp Fiction’s Vincent Vega and Succession’s Shiv Roy read on screen

A master documentarian returns to Ukraine to show the effects of Putin’s bloody invasion on the lives of ordinary people

The language can be found in some unexpected places, none more so than medieval “New England” on the Crimean peninsula

Over the course of a year, a couple created a bracing, bizarre series of Polaroids taken in the bars of the Dutch capital

The devastating bacteria Xylella has killed 21 million olive trees in Italy. Now it is threatening more species, in more countries

Jack Thorne's telling of an early BBC struggle is unfocused, often boring and poorly realised

The anxiety over artificial intelligence is a distraction from the real threat facing the planet

With his “music that doesn't disturb” the German became one of the biggest-selling recording artists in Europe

The standard form of English used in the media contains a number of grammatical oddities not found in other dialects of the language

Carl Orff’s choral masterwork Carmina Burana was feted by the Nazis. But was he a willing collaborator or a canny survivor?

Like hummus and olives, two other central components of a train picnic in modern Britain, chorizo is almost as much of a cultural touchpoint as a sausage roll

The UK used to be the obvious point of entry for art and antiquities coming into Europe. But then we ostracised ourselves

Too many books about the countryside are over-written and nostalgic. But Rebecca Smith’s brilliant new memoir gets it just right

When the Soviet cosmonaut made her pioneering flight 60 years ago, she was supposed to usher in an era of Soviet “Gagarins in skirts”. What happened?