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The English place names that offer revealing clues to the progress of invaders of these islands.

From the Olympic field to Parisian concert calls, Micheline Ostermeyer never failed to provide that special something

Even the greatest writers have had to get used to having their work turned down.

It doesn't matter your intent, the sport will take your money anyway, argues ROB HUGHES

A stage adaptation of the author's The Mirror and the Light makes for feeble and pretentious watching

A modern production of the Shakespeare classic fails to provide a new angle

A lost avant-garde masterpiece, supressed by the Nazis, stuns the London Film Festival and captivates JASON SOLOMONS

This year’s Turner Prize finalists have been chosen for their promotion of social causes. But has rewarding virtue left any room for art?

Four years on from the hashtag that started a revolution, SOPHIA DEBOICK on the female performers who chronicled their experiences of harassment and hope for change in song

A beautiful book about an extraordinary obsession with a piece of used chewing gum

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