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For well over a decade, Beaujolais Nouveau day was a British obsession. How did an unsophisticated bottle of plonk become big business?

There’s pain and glory in The Last Dream – a patchy collection from the Spanish film-maker – but its highlight is all about his mother

The wisecracking writer was traumatised and transformed by her 1937 visit to Spain to support the Republican cause in the civil war

In the Italian version of Gold Digger, Monica Guerritore rewrites the rules for women

Memories of Law, Jordan and Souness are being replaced by a new generation of Scottish talent taking Serie A by storm

In Andrea Arnold’s feature, Nykiya Adams and Barry Keoghan present a moving performance without straying into sentimentality

Our English language was brought to us across the North Sea by boatmen landing on the east coast

The relationship between Jean Marais and Jean Cocteau was one of the great romances of 20th-century European culture

Only bookable by phone or postcard, this London bistro is heaven to anyone of the Luddite persuasion

As arguments about Notre-Dame’s restoration rage on, a new exhibition gathers together stained-glass windows that caused their own controversy in the 1930s

The buttery, flaky pastries have been a breakfast staple for nearly 200 years. Now they’re being remixed

If a new novel is to be believed, the former German chancellor retired to the countryside and started solving murders

First came a devastating flood.. then a city’s battle to save its cultural heritage

A literary festival that reminds us of the healing power of words

Yes, it’s amusing - but Steve Coogan is no Sellers and this can’t match the Kubrick classic

A London exhibition featuring Joseph Beuys and two more key conceptual artists feels dated if occasionally thrilling

Textured and monumental, Blitz is the work of a great British director at the height of his powers

What he saw as the blandness of tradition bore little or no resemblance to the world he knew and the art he wanted to create

What links Philip Glass, Volodymyr Zelensky and Giuseppe Verdi?

The water is beloved thanks to its saltiness and the fact that it is a distinctly natural alternative to booze

The Feargal Sharkey-approved hip hop trio are tearing up the world with message-based rap that’s neither hectoring nor earnest

From James Joyce and Jerome K Jerome to Eliot and Alice Oswald, a personal pick of the greatest writing about rivers

Humanity’s profound physical and spiritual link with water

A new production of Oedipus shows how it should be done

The story of Lieutenant Yulia Mykytenko captures the reason why the country must fight, why it must win and why the west needs to support it all the way

Our editor-at-large’s rundown of the pick of the week’s streaming, cinema, theatre and books

A good show first time round is back for an ill-advised encore

Graham was one of the most high-profile critics of Reagan’s visit to Bitburg. It was personal

Contronyms – words like ‘sanction’ and ‘cleave’ – are a puzzling phenomenon in English, in that they have two opposite meanings