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Nick Payne’s Constellations makes for a long evening and a theatrical let-down

President Alexander Lukashenko of Belarus joins the ranks of dictators who have been musically mocked, writes SOPHIA DEBOICK

Both Succession and The White Lotus examine how the other half live with a satirical eye which makes for pleasing watching, writes MEGAN NOLAN

Gerd Müller, who died earlier this month, was not only a Bayern Munich icon but a man who gave Germans their pride again. So when he fell, club and country helped pick him up By ROB HUGHES

FLORENCE HALLETT investigates how the painter’s discovery of ancient Iberian art changed his work forever.

100 years ago today, thousands of people witnessed the R.38 airship explode in the air, fall from the sky and plummet in the Humber estuary

Food writer JOSH BARRIE starts a new weekly feature for The New European, bringing readers a recipe from a top international chef. We begin with a classic Italian dish, served up by the chef patron behind London restaurants like Satoria and Radici

Will Self on the sobering experience of his brother-in-law's wake in the Hand in Hand on Brixton hill

Giuseppe Meazza was the greatest footballer Milan, and arguably Italy, ever produced, meaning many turned a blind eye to his excessive habits

The Sami people are divided by several different languages and thousands of kilometres of inhospitable terrain. What does it all tell us about this remotely dispersed population?

Lionel Messi’s signing for PSG completes a glittering attacking line-up, but an ageing one, says TNE football writer ROB HUGHES

As two new books and an artist’s opera project revisit the enigmatic Maria Callas, the best way to understand her is by focusing on the most obvious place.. the stage.

The coming century will belong to the Global South, and the Global North needs to come to terms with that

The secretive artist whose works command millions at auction has returned with new street pieces in Great Yarmouth and other eastern coastal towns. But as prices continue to rise, what is it like to have been one of the early adopters who bought one of his early prints for a song nearly 20 years ago?

Lucy Bailey's production of Oleanna shows the play has not ages well.

EMMA LUCK on how tax breaks, pandemic management and ambitious studio plans are helping Spain film its way to recovery in the shadow of Covid-10.

A remarkable new book and exhibition chart a series of extraordinary events and rituals along the river, from its muddy source to its expansive estuary.

Mathieu Boogaerts has set himself an ambitious task: teaching the English about French chanson

CHARLIE CONNELLY on three new books of poetry on strikingly different themes: a sixth century saint, an endangered species and the everyday episodes which take place in a supermarket

PETER BARRON on the joys of renovating a crumbling barn in rural Extremadura... during the pandemic... while more than a thousand miles away

Jonathan Church’s production leaves audiences out in the rain with a three-star performance

In the third and final part of his exclusive series for The New European, author Oliver Burkeman explains that there is no easy fix for anxiety, but there are plenty of ways to manage it

With a new dating show based on the Jane Austen book, perhaps there's a truth to be acknowledged that every literary classic is in need of a reality TV format. By CHARLIE CONNELLY

Esther Loewy lied when she told an orchestra conductor she could play the accordion, and it was a lie that saved her life, writes SOPHIA DEBOICK

How Jean Dubuffet reinvented cityscapes, the female nude.. and even his own work. By CLAUDIA PRITCHARD

Netflix's surreal new dating show Sexy Beasts has only attraction... and it doesn't get the chemistry right

A mission to archive fanzines, flyers, badges and the ephemera of punk, techno, hip-hop and more is underway in Berlin. By DANIEL SCHNEIDER

Post-lockdown audiences are treated to a fun-filled evening, courtesy of Jason Donovan and Alexandra Burke

ALASTAIR CAMPBELL on his first reading of one of the most important books of the 20th century

JAMES RODGERS was working in Russia in the summer of 1991, when the cracks in the USSR’s system suddenly broke apart.

ARTEMY TROITSKY was on the barricades in August 1991 to prevent the coup from succeeding. He says the freedoms that followed were soon squandered

With the death of Mikhail Gorbachev, Britain's then man in Moscow tells of his ringside seat as the August Coup that preceded the break-up of the Soviet Union played out before an astonished world