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

In her elusive beauty and skill, Arletty was the rival to Garbo

Between 350AD and 600AD, ‘boat people’ took Brittonic Celtic across the Channel from south-west England to Normandy and Brittany

On the eve of its five-year closure, the Centre Pompidou is hosting an exhibition of Constantin Brâncuși’s work that is only the second of its kind in France

The art that brought Paris back from the dead

A new book charts the surprising passion in Ukraine for cricket, the country’s fastest-growing sport – until the Russians invaded

The word is linguistically Persian, but most of the ‘stan’ nations are now inhabited by speakers of Turkic languages

Whether she had an actual gun in her hand or not, art became her weapon, a noisy defence against the world and an instrument of her reckoning with the past

In 1968, three films caught the times in different ways. And they all starred women

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

Britain's restaurants could learn something from the casual establishments of Piedmont

The remarkable Alice Rohrwacher on buried treasure and directing without a safety net

In the 1970s the three broadcast channels all had regular teleplays and anyone who wanted to write drama seriously was drawn into television

On a warm evening, Regent's Park Open Air Theatre is the best in the capital

Provocative and dramatic work from Turkey is among the highlights of this year’s Photo London

With many ageing males, the locus of anxiety is, of course, an actual locus on the head

How Australian singer Nellie Melba – born Helen Porter Mitchell – took her new surname from a mill stream in Derbyshire

He arrived in America pretending to be the son of an Austrian count but became one of early cinema’s most adventurous and meticulous directors

Fred Zinnemann’s classic Western is full of tired, scared, cynical people. In that, it is like a Godard or a Cassavetes

Almost 2,000 restaurants went bust last year, but Rishi Sunak and co are apparently uninterested

Photographer Polly Braden has spent two years following the lives of Ukrainian women and children displaced by Putin’s invasion

Dutch sensation Froukje makes dance music with lyrics about grief, the climate crisis and her own brand of radical optimism

The recent bust by Europol of an international ring of thieves targeting rare Russian editions has shocked the classic book world

How one night of music inspired Kandinsky’s Blue Rider movement

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

The Donmar’s Cherry Orchard is modern, radical and exquisitely boring

This could be a turning point in how the country treats questionable men

South West Bank delves into the historic struggles Palestinians have faced

Why are we fascinated by talking horses and chatty cats in fiction?

The spectacle of this great host of well-meaning folk aroused in me yet more carping and cavilling

The word now used to denote enthusiasm has come a long way from its early days when it was most often used in connection with Christ

Photographic chronicles of the everyday, inspired by Nobel winner Annie Ernaux