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Hundreds of Afghan artists have had to flee the country since the regime closed down galleries and threatened them with prison

Arguably the greatest footballer in the world has inspired a plethora of songs across Europe

This recipe from the founder of Spanish deli Brindisa is a sure-fire winner for group dining

She was that rarest of dancers, one who could apparently transcend physics and the limitations of the human body

Look closely at the suffix -less and you’ll find it often attached to words like reck and ruth that have ceased to exist

The sight of tracksuit-wearing Brits entering one of the most beautiful brasseries on the Left Bank left me gasping and prostrated

Sleepova is one of those free-flowing, slice-of-life dramas that, with a no-frills staging, places a vast amount of pressure on the individual actors to make something of their parts

It’s clear everyone has tried very hard to make this show work. They failed

The story of the Senegal-born boxer the IRA couldn’t knock out – and his fatal drift into dissipation

Cannes Best Actress winner Zar Amir Ebrahimi on her exile from Iran and why her work shames the regime

Kælan Mikla bring their witchy synth-punk to the UK for the first time since the pandemic

Should undiscovered Terry Pratchett stories, and other posthumous work, be published?

How Sweden’s Eurovision loser became perhaps Europe’s greatest-ever jazz singer

Celebrating pizza – a better gauge of human integrity than Matt Hancock

The language arrived in Wales much earlier than England thanks to links between Britons and ordinary Romans

The remarkable career of the Spanish republican soldier who stumbled into the film industry

The case of a pedestrian jailed for causing the death of a cyclist highlights the ongoing power struggle on the pavements of urban Britain

The story of a bored Liverpudlian housewife finding love on a holiday to Greece now feels very dated

This has been said to be a dark reimagining of the old classic, but it is taking the word too literally

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