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To the Dutchman commercial art was just as fulfilling as something more purely creative – and it came with a wage

Are devastation and destruction wreaked or wrought? And why did the word havoc change from ‘havot’ in the first place?

In a new book by a best-selling French author, ancient onlookers watch a family come to terms with a disabled child

How Paul Nougé helped create a movement... then disowned it

For all the failings of this country these past years, one industry that has improved, year after year, is restaurants

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

A Frank Capra picture always embodied what Abraham Lincoln appealed to in US citizens: “The better angels of our nature”

The inaugural Women’s World Cup held in Mexico in 1971 was a tournament of joy. But before long, its participants were ridiculed and dismissed

But Double Feature’s tale of Vincent Price’s clashes with a director is a misfire

A barely concealed desire for the old Russian empire would infuse his work but even this did not preclude Stalin’s tacit admiration

Norwich’s literary legacy is a surprising one – both Meir of England and Jan Cruso were important poets from the city but neither wrote in English

A great writer travelled to Hungary, wrote a single book, and then disappeared. All she left behind was a masterpiece

The artist championing the Arctic’s mistreated, reindeer-raising Sámi people

Paul Scully says Tower Hamlets in east London has “no-go areas”. How would he know?

John Galliano and the shadow of antisemitism

A smoked meat sandwich might not sound like much. But it is the summit of what a sandwich can be: utterly, buoyantly delicious, and wholly inclusive

Our editor-at-large’s rundown of the pick of the week’s film, TV and art

In the Top Hat dance sequence we see a master dancer at the top of his game

The Human Body, also starring Jack Davenport, is a confused homage to a David Lean classic

An Indian mission to feed hungry British students makes for a bizarre reversal

He arrived in the US as the “James Dean of Germany” but that promise would never truly be fulfilled

Italian tennis star Jannik Sinner’s home region of South Tyrol is still largely German-speaking despite being in Italy for over 100 years

How a Danish archaeologist’s book about ancient bodies found buried in peat bogs inspired some of the poet’s greatest work

As much as asparagus excites me – really it does – its increasingly early arrival is also a little unsettling

Our editor-at-large’s rundown of the pick of the week’s film, TV and art

The Face is the real storyteller in vintage, and the close-up its greatest tool

Even by the topsy-turvy standards of the 20th century, Baker’s journey seems far-fetched

The former Doctor Who’s second-act speech in An Enemy of the People is a tour de force

Everyone must die – and so must broadcast TV

Many exiled European writers embraced their situation, but for Zweig the loss of his nation represented the loss of his identity

A look at eight decades’ worth of a parent’s diaries shows how our use of language has changed in unexpected ways