Eurofile

Ivo van Hove, the Bowie collaborator with a taste for the spectacular, returns with a timely, bloody war epic at the Barbican

The white majority needs to ask itself what it can do to effect the necessary change to a policy which has done more than anything else to alienate black and brown Britons from civil society

If the kings of the Neue Deutsche Härte are calling it a day Germany will lose one of its most paradoxically valuable assets

Audrey Diwan’s powerful abortion drama Happening has completed a clean sweep of major awards for female directors. But, she says, real equality is still far away

A definitive, exhaustive exhibition of the Renaissance artist is a once-in-a-lifetime blockbuster of a show

A new Netflix film is a worthy and sometimes dazzling new addition to the canon of horrifying ballet depictions

A play about Florence Nightingale and Mary Seacole is hectoring and polemical rather than a serious examination of a character and her motivations

Bertie Carvel triumphs as Trump very much in spite of Mike Bartlett’s script, rather than because of it

Even inside his own monogrammed funeral casket the writer of Don Quixote remains an enigma

British lamb isn’t at its best in April, so try this recipe for roast hogget

A year on from the failed attempt to make European football a closed shop, the sport's administrators still want to tinker with the Champions League

The latest – and last? – novel by Michel Houellebecq, France’s most controversial writer, takes on politics

Two young musicians are demonstrating that classical music is perfectly able to have contemporary appeal among the young

Migration and livestreaming are helping the traditionally English game gain a foothold in mainland Europe at long last

New album Hair of the Dog captures something of our primitive selves who looked for expression of our hopes, desires and search for new beginnings through the sound of a beat

Little known today, Alexis Soyer was once hailed as the world’s greatest cook; feeding not just the rich but famine victims and soldiers too

In both opposition to war in Russia, and British attitudes to climate change, mass dissent will probably come too late to make any difference

It has been in use on the subcontinent since the 1600s and now has millions of native speakers

A new exhibition celebrates - and questions - the brief flowering of creativity in 1960s Lebanon

Netflix's new Amsterdam-set drama addresses the potential tedium of over-familiarity with sex, as well as its liberatory capacities

I, Claudius is remembered as a BBC classic, but it started a trend for historical European-set dramas with extra helpings of sex and violence

Great set design created high expectations for this drama and it failed to live up to them

This production has promise but becomes a little too surreal when actors clown around to reveal a fearful reality

From music to film, TV to architecture, test your knowledge of Europe with our fiendishly tricky quiz

The French/English stand-up comedian’s comedic cannon rests on poking fun at English and French stereotypes. After living in both countries for years she has no shortage of material

Bloody Difficult Women takes as its inspiration Gina Miller’s court case against Theresa May. We had a right to have our say

This version adapted for younger audiences portrays the Shakespeare classic without patronising viewers while keeping adults entertained at the same time

His polymathic attitude to genres and prolific output mean he is rarely spoken of in the same awed tones as a Hitchcock or Capra, but Curtiz was as much of a craftsman as any Hollywood great

The bungalow seems synonymous with the UK, but its origins can be traced back to north Indian languages

These hot cross buns are far more interesting than regular ones, where the foremost flavour is raisins and cinnamon

Once the way Extremaduran families got their annual supply of meat, these days the traditional pig slaughter is a big day out

The works by great authors that were left on trains and buses... or accidentally smoked