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Sri Lankan ghosts, queer love and a fictional nation all made for riveting reading this year

After three years of renovation, Piero della Francesca’s masterpiece is back on show at the National Gallery in time for Christmas

Anne de Henning left a career in Paris fashion to become a photo-journalist – and ended up recording ‘history in the making’ at the birth of Bangladesh

We have to go far north, to the lands most closely identified with snowy festiveness, to find nations truly invested in Christmas music and embracing songs in their own language

How did an obscure British comedy sketch become a New Year tradition for Germans?

Gianni Infantino ignores the evidence that footballers’ bodies need to rest like any other athletes

From the moment Qatar got the World Cup they rejected convention and turned on Fifa and its stated values

There isn’t a member of the cast who isn’t firing on all cylinders but, at two-and-a-half-hours, this portrayal of telesales women feels much too long

The play divides critics, but this production will convert any punters

A Storm for Christmas fails to deliver more than the usual festive tropes… but perhaps it doesn’t need to

A backlash against looking perfect on social media has led to “goblin mode” becoming the word of the year

The melodious singing by Wales fans at the World Cup reminds us that their language was around many years before English

His was acting of remarkable subtlety and nuance, especially when sharing the screen with some of cinema’s most magnetic women

We are talking about Christmas and excess is the order of the day: give me a juicy Cumberland and wrap it in thick bacon

Morocco's World Cup success has come through faith, committed defence and seemingly impenetrable will

A searing music memoir, goshawks and John Donne all featured in 2022’s best non-fiction

Unveiling Vienna-bound Gustav Klimt’s pan-European inspirations

As Hanukkah songs are sung throughout next week, they will forge a link to a difficult past even as they celebrate a living culture

T. S. Eliot's masterpiece still shocks and disconcerts and bewilders after 100 years

The National's Christmas folie de grandeur is simply unforgivable

This adaptation of Virginia Woolf’s novel is funny, seditious, intelligent, courageous and beautiful

The Dane had a reputation as a vamp but in truth was as fragile as a gazelle

Why Pierre Choderlos de Laclos's novel remains a story for all eras

Jerzy Połomski, one of the most-loved entertainers in Polish history, has died at the age of 89

The painting made Pablo Picasso the most famous – or notorious – artist in the modern world

Why do the names of Messi and Pochettino sound like they hail from closer to Bologna than to Buenos Aires?

More than a century ago scholars and businessmen went to South America to build railways or set up colleges. They introduced Argentines and Brazilians to football

Duck is revered in Ukraine year-round, but it is particularly suited to winter

Reading the British press in the last few weeks and months, you get the impression there are only two kinds of migrants landing on these shores

Most authors and publishers would be sorry to see it collapse

The writing in Glory Ride – A New Musical feels raw and so do the lyrics, but this show has a fascinating yarn to tell

It is genuinely startling and shocking that this is the first Othello from a black director at a major venue