Review

A major influencer in China visited and sparked a recurrent wave of visitors eager to try the same dishes they did

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

An intelligent and fearless French novel of clear-eyed anger digs deep into contemporary morality

Tom Stoppard’s play now seems irredeemably dated

Three architects pitch monuments to massacres in Lara Haworth’s debut novel about who gets to write history

Angelina Jolie’s Callas biopic sinks at the Venice Film Festival

The third Death of England play is funny and dazzling.. even watching its audience is a joy

Jeff Young’s Wild Twin is an uncompromisingly honest memoir of a lost teenage soul, of adventure, rebellion and the echoes of memory

How Van Gogh’s sister-in-law let go of his work and cemented his legend

There’s plenty of life in the latest 39 Steps revival

Bombed, suppressed, destroyed… but the work of Ukrainian artists goes on

Hanna Pylväinen’s new novel is a haunting tale of love and conflict set in the Sápmi lands of northern Europe in the 19th century

It’s time for a long exposure for the avant-garde Bauhaus photographer

Fiddler On The Roof is theatre at its best

A dull and thankless endeavour makes you feel sorry for audience and actors

If opera needs a way to entrance new, younger audiences, this production of Samson needs to get on the road

The Death Of England is cutting-edge theatre that doesn’t care who it offends

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

The man behind the masks and mysteries – James Ensor, the angry, vindictive, solitary genius of Ostend

A spirited revival of Mnemonic can’t hide its flaws

If you want a night of exuberant entertainment, vote for Barnum

Line Of Duty’s Adrian Dunbar delights in a clever and seditious classic

Lust, love and life: an exhibition about the art of the breast

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

The playwright’s archives reveal him as a compulsive newspaper clipper and a master of montage

Writing during the turbulent regime of Enver Hoxha led the writer into compromise – as well as greatness

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

The Voice of the Turtle is stylish, compelling and romantic

Liliana Cavani's pitch-black tale of a Nazi and a camp survivor bound together enraged almost everybody on its original release. Half a century on, has the tide turned?

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

A flat script does Anna Maxwell Martin no favours either

The Secret Garden is assured and stylish