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Lukas Dhont’s Close is an ecstatic, tear-jerking tale of adolescent friendship

Exploring the connection between schizophrenia and emerging technologies

After decades of success in the US and Europe, the Russian composer suffered an ignominious demise in 1950s Moscow

How the jazz musician’s iconic soundtrack to Lift to the Scaffold still resonates today

The Elfstedentocht event has been part of Dutch folklore for more than 100 years. But, thanks to climate change, it could well be over for good

Celebrating 100 years of the subversive eccentric feted by the Beatles and John Peel

From The Rolling Stones and The Cure to Jean-Louis Murat: How musicians excel at melding literature and song

This delicious dish is inspired by sustainability and doesn’t require anything of which we’re currently short. Nor, thankfully, does it call for turnips...

Papiamentu is a young creole tongue that formed as a result of contact between many different languages during the Atlantic slave trade

If we’d been allowed to judge it on own terms, Rachel O’Riordan’s production works perfectly well as a slice-of-life drama

This is an atmospheric drama set during the second world war in a claustrophobic boarding house not far from Cardiff Docks

The Ukrainian-American was forward thinking in his willingness to combine art with the world of science and engineering

This Italian-style dish is ideally suited to late winter

In Italy, the art of dubbing foreign films is creating voiceover celebrities. But that means the homegrown screen industry is losing out

Svetlana Alexievich’s books chart the horrors of history through witness testimony rather than fiction

The Master and Margarita author loved the Ukrainian capital, yet today attracts fierce opprobrium

The British trio are back with more of their despairing, sinister sounds on new album The Fell

Star Trek actor George Takei still finds much about British politics highly illogical

This musical set on an estate in Sheffield charts the changing times of these islands

Sylvia fails to live up to its billing as the serious rival to Hamilton it was originally intended to be

The tendency in the collective British psyche towards uchronia – a time that never was – rather than utopia, should gladden the King’s heart, since his entire raison d’être is the preservation of crumbling institutions

The names of our cities, towns and villages are part of the linguistic heritage of Britain – but some have a complicated history

He was born into a farming family, but it was always the agricultural machinery rather than the land itself that fascinated the young Ferruccio

This is an ideal midweek meal, playing up to the season diligently but without fuss

Luciano Spalletti could have retired. Yet not only is he back on the touchline, he is thriving

A gripping work of literary fiction – soon to be a Netflix series – sheds light on the Sámi’s plight

Traditionally it’s assumed that there is only a west-to-east movement but there has been a rich tradition the other way

How a book of ancient Chinese and Indian texts influenced the work of one of Spain’s greatest modern artists

Greece’s wildest peninsula, the Mani, is a place of mystery and ruined towers, where locals lived “a knife’s edge away from starvation”

A congregation that’s 100% anything when it comes to ethnicity hardly implies diversity, let alone multiculturalism

While some English words are of uncertain etymology, others have multiple origins and definitions

Music has long tried to solve the riddle of childhood and recapture the point of view of the child that we all once were