Arts and Culture

In a bold reinvention, Sam Spade, the hardboiled San Francisco private eye made famous by Bogart, surfaces in 1960s France

The Beatles gave young Americans gold standard permission to be different from their parents

Satire, sadness and the home truths about a divided nation

These are the roots of the traditional feast to celebrate Rabbie Burns

A hugely ambitious exhibition at the Irish Museum of Modern Art shows how a burgeoning sense of nationhood gripped many European countries in 1918

It would do men a lot of good to go out in a dress for a few days and feel the wind of change it occasions

The works of Robert Burns are known the world over, but many English speakers only have a vague understanding of the language he used

There isn’t a flavour like the Arbroath smokie. It is salty, buttery and soft, bold and concentrated but to a remedial, soothing degree

The role of Rico in Little Caesar proved as career-defining for Robinson as Frankenstein’s monster was for Boris Karloff or Dracula for Bela Lugosi

In JA Bayona, the survivors of the 1972 crash of Uruguayan Air Force Flight 571 had the right man to tell their story

French Resistance spy Boulle took up writing almost on a whim – then created the basis for two all-time classic films

A star is born in this high school musical with roots in French literature

This could be the most truthful play ever about putting on a play

I’m old enough to remember what life was like before the generality of houses and flats were centrally heated – and now I’m experiencing it again

More famous dancers would follow her lead but Nora Kovach was the first, the pioneer, arguably the bravest of them all

Words can take on a whole new meaning when adopted into another language; French vocabulary is particularly susceptible

This dish encapsulates more than anything the grandeur and the newness that changed dining in Britain forever

With only 20 of his works left in the world, the National Gallery is hosting the first exhibition devoted to the Renaissance master

Blending headbanging with head-nodding, Norway’s genre-bending guitarist is having her moment in the sun

All were fans of writing their own thoughts on the pages of the books they read

Unravelling the secrets of the German film-maker

The show is compelling, but it is rooted in mistrust, selfishness and bias

Frances Barber is brilliant as a deranged conspiracist in Steven Moffat's play The Unfriend

The 1970s was an era as filthily culpable as any other and its only redeeming feature was the cheapness and availability of sherbet lemons

While she became one of the most highly respected names in the history of US theatre, Hagen brought a European sensibility to Broadway

There are not many Gaelic loanwords in English, and the most common ones refer to specifically Scottish phenomena. But not all

As good as a fruit galette is, nothing rivals a galette des rois

Virtually unknown on arrival in England, the painter used his contacts – as well as his talent – to rise through Henry VIII’s court

Why Yorgos Lanthimos’s latest could be the weirdest Oscar-winner ever

A real-life zoo breakout is the first in a series of tumultuous events to befall the refugee hero of Leo Vardiashvili’s impressive debut novel

The continent became a safe haven in the postwar years for American musicians escaping racism and drugs. Decades on, they are still coming

After the battle comes the reckoning – even for the winners