Arts and Culture

Self-service libraries with automated kiosks are taking over. But we lose librarians at our peril

The cinema looks at the clash of realities that is the US – and makes movies out of it

When Antonín Panenka stepped up to the spot in the 1976 Euro final, history was on his mind - and at his feet

My decades-long relationship with a fake blue plaque has been rekindled by a new Labour government

Why are the German and English names for stringed instruments so different?

With an eye for the smallest detail as well as the big picture, Trump became a vital driving force of the family business empire

A remarkable new documentary sees the son of commandant Rudolph Höss meet a survivor of his father’s murder factory

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

Wiener schnitzel, born in Vienna, has its own form, its own magic

King Vidor’s film helped put Labour into government

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?

Come on Tate Gallery, if you really feel the need to right a historic injustice, do it by ameliorating a contemporary one

The common portrayal as a humourless Teuton could not have been further from a man whose work was infused with nuance, warmth and joy

A new novel that reimagines art’s most toxic relationship and reintroduces the photographer and artist’s legacy to the world

The addition of suffixes to indicate a change in size is a common feature of many languages – but the word ‘cello’ is a unique example

From remote Spain to the US Midwest via the Eternal City and Moominland, here are 10 must-reads for those long, warm days ahead

Government and culture do not mix.. just look what happened last time

A new venture by BrewDog’s ‘captain and co-founder’ is not to be welcomed

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

It was so dull that Churchill made his excuses and went to bed in the middle of it – even though it was screened especially for him

A fiery final interview with the provocative Dutch artist

A flat script does Anna Maxwell Martin no favours either

The Secret Garden is assured and stylish

The advent of sound signalled the end of the silent movie star's career

A retrospective opens in Munich of the drawings, films and kinetic sculptures of German artist Rebecca Horn

A new exhibition of the Italian photographer’s work captures the glamour of postwar Italian film

The use of the word ‘hi’ as a greeting in Britain began in the early 1960s – probably influenced by American TV programmes and films

The ideologies aren’t working – and neither are the political parties

If doner meat thrust chaotically into fluffy bread is a surefire way to encourage sobriety in the UK, it is almost a religion in Berlin