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Casting decisions put the Bard at the centre of debate about Britishness

If I want to see the Alps nowadays, all I have to do is pick up my View-Master, point it in the direction of a light source, and begin depressing the lever

The Italian will be forever remembered for a wordless walk in a Viennese cemetery

Edvard Grieg may have been Norway’s greatest classical composer, but he actually inherited his name from his Scottish forebears

Thanks to a letter about delivery, The Martyrdom of Saint Ursula was finally attributed to its great master

Two generations ago, the chaos of Latin America inspired a wave of remarkable fiction. Now the patterns are repeating

The last-minute cancellation of the city’s intimate and unpretentious book festival Aye Write is an act of cultural vandalism

Nikita Teryoshin’s chilling photos of ‘The back office of war’

It is sad and diminishing that our government is now effectively telling an important community it is no longer wanted

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

Both Welles and Frank Capra were masters of portraying the crooked side of the American Dream

An 85-year-old delivers vulnerability beneath the bravado in an astonishing late-career performance

Convincing us to buy smaller versions of appliances we already own is one of capitalism’s big cons

A pilgrimage on foot from London to Canterbury is par for the course of this very pedestrian life

A dream provided an epitaph inadvertently appropriate for a man who spent his life producing art and literature that shocked and appalled the unsuspecting

People may assume that the word ‘cravat’ comes from French, but its ultimate linguistic origin is much more complicated

Off the west coast of Norway lies an island luring countless tourists to its shores for its salmon

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

Joe gave women agency, even if they were wearing an apron; even if they were frightened about losing a man

ECM has been producing stylish jazz since 1969. But with its founder now 80, where do its solemn, spacious sounds go next?

The Judgement of Paris gives up its myriad secrets at the National Gallery

The Montenegrin has been the subject of a mock trial and effigy-burning over his latest novel, Anomaly

The actor – reliably excellent as the singer’s father, Mitch, in Back to Black – on addiction, social media rage and antisemitism

Opening Night is intelligent, unusual and unforgettable

I have decided to grow a beard – my mission is to reconcile the two most antipathetic faith communities of London in the contours of my own face

Even for all her success and the wealth that came with it, Valadon’s bohemianism remained undiminished

Why the ‘father of Czech classical music’ switched from a German Friedrich to a Czech Bedrich

Pick up your pan, your spoon, your rice, and get stirring. Risotto is about to have a moment in Britain

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

One shot tells you everything about this immortal cinematographer

A new exhibition connects the work of over 50 women from across the world

Ireland is going through a golden literary age – but Sinéad Gleeson’s extraordinary debut stands out from the rest