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BONNIE GREER looks back at the life of Kurt Cobain and recalls the significance of 'The 27 Club' in music.

WILL SELF on educating ourselves from past and present literature

Black History Month has been celebrated in the UK during October since 1987. Each week this month, The New European is celebrating Black Britons who broke hard ground on the path we are still walking; towards a prejudice-free society.

PETER TRUDGILL on the cricketer Michael Holding and Jamaican Patwa

The Belgian filmmaker believed all you ever really have in life is time and she took control of her own in the most definitive way she knew how.

Food writer JOSH BARRIE brings readers a recipe from French chef Gregory Marchand perfect as winter approaches

The cruellest pandemic play that leaves audiences haunted long after it's finished

A once sexy, sassy and sensational production is now showing signs of aging

Albania's experience under the dictatorship of Enver Hoxha has received less attention than other repressive regimes. A new book provides a timely and truly chilling spotlight.

Public Service Broadcasting captures Berlin's musical history with a magical new album - Bright Magic

Sporting talent can run in the family. Just take it from the Maldinis who have dominated football for generations...

An attempt to breathe new life into the American drama from the noughties falls short

New BBC series Ridley Road shines an uncomfortable light on the UK’s fascist revival, which took place less than 20 years after the end of the war.

As Italy and the literary world marks 700 years since the death of Dante Alighieri, portraits by his namesake, Dante Gabriel Rossetti, resound with the writer’s influence on the painter’s art.

WILL SELF on reality TV programmes that are so bad, they're good

This month marks the anniversary of a bloodbath in the centre of Paris, the full story of which is yet to emerge. SUNA ERDEM reports on a tragedy that continues to haunt France.

Far right talk show host Eric Zemmour, a big defender of Maurice Papon, may yet play a decisive role in France's presidential elections, underlining just how much the tensions of the past still play out today.

A minor change to the spelling of the Belarusian president's name would offer a subtle challenge to his authority.

His greatest character was weighed down by disillusionment and ennui, but the author behind Wallander was quite different.

Food writer JOSH BARRIE brings readers a recipe from Turkey that spices up an old favourite

Two writers with strikingly different reputations, whose long-lost work has recently been unearthed.

The production adopts an ambitious task of trying to get the audience to feel for two German-American teenagers who fall in love in a Nazi summer camp, and falls short

This play presents another example of a risk averse post-pandemic West End and it should do better than that

Three decades ago, dulcet tones from Estonia signalled the country's newfound freedom, writes SOPHIA DEBOICK

Real Madrid remains focal to European football. Florentino Pérez, Real Madrid president, is both responsible for this and has hindered it

PETER BARRON on a night spent at a monastery, where he met one of Spain’s most revered figures

On his centenary, Germany’s best-known post-war artist remains as influential – and contentious – as ever.

Barbara Broccoli on film, family and Daniel Craig's farewell in No Time To Die.

Fancy a trip to the continent now the pandemic is easing? JOHN RAIN looks back at some exotic European locations James Bond has been to, and who he killed there

NIGEL WARBURTON, one of the world’s most-read philosophers, considers the latest art installation at Paris’s Arc de Triomphe.

MATT KELLY on how the West triumphed over the Soviets in a campaign fought in the aisles and check-outs.

WILL SELF on the reggae culture and music from his youth, and finding it in Cornwall.