Eurofile

Is The Ugly Duchess a work of misogyny, a portrait of deformity or the mocking of an aristocrat? Or all three?

Artificial intelligence can create a so-so approximation of what John Betjeman might have made of Brexit. But can it write with soul?

Today only the Hebridean islands remain strongholds of a language that was once dominant across almost all of Scotland

The Austrian’s life was defined by a single event lasting 55 seconds

Having waited his entire life for this coronation service, and having apparently played a central role in devising it, the King was nonetheless unable to memorise his own lines

Romans, in particular, become stressed when dishes are vandalised. Serve this to a Roman nonna and she may well try to conquer you again

East Germany’s first black policeman started the 1990s as a media phenomenon, but ended it in jail. A new series tells his story

Remembering a master, 40 years after his death

The pipe dream that the genie of AI is going to be thrust back in the bottle is just that

How a simple linguistic mistake linked a nymph from Greek mythology to the music genre that originated in the Caribbean

Napoli’s joy at winning Serie A is about much more than their long wait – it is about a history of abuse from their northern rivals

Life need not be completely depressing in modern Britain. Praise be to pie

A meditative masterpiece explores rediscovered friendships and the art of finding simpler ways through our complex world

The American right’s culture battles are creating empty shelves in Republican states. Could Britain join in with this madness?

A new exhibition explores whether Ancient Greece's labyrinth existed or was a confection of the imagination cultivated over the centuries

Nightmares were the business of Hans Ruedi Giger, who drew on his own to create surrealist art – and the creature at the heart of Alien

The recent Ed Sheeran plagiarism court case revives the old question of where music really comes from

Many TV comedy actors come a cropper when they turn to serious stage roles, but the League of Gentlemen star captures Sir John magnificently

Forget the headlines. Children's reading comprehension is on the decline, and their books are to blame

The German was behind some of the greatest war images ever taken by some of the best news photographers ever to wield a Leica

The English spoken by lesser-known white West Indians shows significant linguistic differences from that spoken by black West Indians

Taramas is a glorious dip, reliant only on cod’s roe, old bread, oil, garlic, lemon juice and the like. I’m not convinced anything tastes more Mediterranean

One of the greatest Impressionists, Berthe Morisot’s work offered perceptive, unusual glimpses of domestic life

A new book eschews cosy nostalgia to explore the fractures that Europe’s picture postcard tourist traps keep hidden

The Targa Florio road race pitted drivers against every imaginable danger.. including stray dogs

A new play about Sidney Poitier is a fitting allegory for our immoral times

The Dutch cyclist should have fallen to his death after tumbling into a 1,000-foot ravine during the 1951 Tour de France, but emerged in miraculously good shape

This wonderfully fresh springtime dish is a fitting way to hail the new season

My inexplicable inability to call out the bigotry of the far right during an appearance on Question Time nearly a decade ago still rankles to this day

The Americans call it zee, but it is not the only letter pronounced differently in certain parts of the English- speaking world

She was on her way to becoming a tennis all-time great. Then, 30 years ago, an attacker changed history

A revelatory collection of Mediterranean antiquities makes for a quietly subversive exhibition in Cambridge