Arts and Culture

Patrick Marber’s unremarkable revival delivers polite laughs only

For a woman who never desired the limelight, Silvana Mangano achieved cinematic immortality almost in spite of herself

How British music turned away from America and learned to love the continent

Inspired by Goya, the Portuguese artist’s versions of Humpty Dumpty and Three Blind Mice are very much not for children

A beautiful memoir about the ugly side of Europe tops our round-up of 2024’s best non-fiction

An astounding, eccentric documentary uncovers a murky assassination plot involving Belgium, the CIA and Louis Armstrong

The pronunciation of his name has always been debatable, but its origin seems clear enough – and it’s not from the Huguenots

The troubled birth and lasting genius of Sergio Leone’s Once Upon A Time in America

Our editor-at-large’s rundown of the pick of the week’s streaming, cinema, theatre and books

Max Webster's production of The Importance of Being Earnest fails to commit to doing something truly innovative

The Italian constitution sets an obligation for the government to promote a crucial part of the nation’s identity

Even before Gregg Wallace ended his own career, the time was ripe for a change. Here are four names who could shake things up

The intensity he displayed in the saddle was an extension of his personality. He was spiky, surly and could bear a spectacular grudge

At a glitzy Paris art fair, a dose of reality from eight photographers who have something to say about the world

It isn’t just London any more and it isn’t just Iberian chefs cooking

An Israeli startup’s plan to use AI to publish 8,000 books a year sounds like the death of quality

Three parallel exhibitions celebrate a great Dutch artist whose career began after a great deal of crying over spilt milk

How Stephen Frears’ The Hit – the first movie based on British gangsters exiled in Spain – finally lived up to its name

A 1532 first edition of Machiavelli’s The Prince, which are vanishingly hard to come by, has just come on the market

The country is in a tunnel and there is no light at the end of it. But I still need to get my hair cut

Trump is descended from immigrants and has a multilingual family. Why is he not more tolerant of bilingual arrivals?

The Old Vic’s Dickens classic still carries a powerful message about poverty and greed

Our editor-at-large's rundown of the pick of the week’s streaming, cinema, theatre and books

Many languages, including English, contain loan words ‘borrowed’ from other languages. But there is one notable exception – Icelandic

An adventurous romantic life lent almost a Zelig-like quality to the writer, constantly drawing her towards the centre of events

The inheritance tax debate is a little more nuanced than you will read on social media

The German artist returns with a playful book that shakes things up by bringing the surreal into the everyday

That we have seemingly managed to beat Elon Musk should be cause for celebration. Why, then, do I have this uneasiness about it?

An edge-of-the-pulpit papal thriller from the screenwriter of Wolf Hall: The Mirror and the Light offers lessons in weakness, venality and doubt

How a habitual jailbird became one of Germany’s most famous authors by writing about a Wild West he’d never visited