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The pioneering Chinese-American actor who fled early Hollywood for Europe to escape her stereotyping as a tragic Butterfly or treacherous Dragon Lady.

If Bryan Robson is right, the value of Cristiano Ronaldo’s return to Manchester United could extend beyond the pitch, writes Rob Hughes

A stunning new exhibition at this month’s Photo London fair sees Iranian born photographer Shirin Neshat turn her lens on her adopted country.

Dancers perform on the back of a T-72B3 tank at the opening ceremony of the 2021 International Army Games at the Alabino military training ground near Moscow.

WILL SELF on his visit Stephen Wright’s House of Dreams and its extraordinary insider-outsider artwork

Amid the bloodshed of the 20th century, it remains all but forgotten. But what became known as the Disaster of Annual, 100 years ago this summer, shaped Spain’s traumatic century.

She was an actress and a writer, but more importantly Erika Mann spent her life witnessing and fighting injustice

PATRICK SAWER on his Italian immigrant mother’s quiet English patriotism

The disappearance of this archaic term represents a genuine loss for the English language, says PETER TRUDGILL

CHARLIE CONNELLY on an British master of travel writing, exploring memories of the Spanish Civil War by following the route of the memorable 1941 Vuelta a Espana bicycle race

Food writer JOSH BARRIE brings readers a recipe from a man known as the Godfather of Spanish food, featuring a fish that the British are only beginning to get a taste for

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