Arts and Culture

Her work is simple and subdued; her life as Rodin’s muse and mistress was anything but

The singer and actress was the Frenchest of us all, and somehow also the most British

Unlike the joyless reworking of Oklahoma!, this gets the point of a big, old-fashioned musical

The likes of Osip Mandelstam, Marina Tsvetaeva, Anna Akhmatova and Joseph Brodsky were regarded by their contemporary readers with the awe now reserved for rock stars

Born into privilege she may have been, but Anastasia’s short life and awful death remain one of the great tragedies of the 20th century

This recipe is classically European in nature – a piece of white fish, breadcrumbed, served with a creamy garlic and spinach sauce

A new strain of writing, that engages with the mundane things of life, is more profound than it may first appear

The Helsinki Biennial event highlights how the climate crisis sparked Finland’s artistic and cultural awakening

If your name becomes an adjective, you will achieve immortality; but beware, it may not be the kind that you want

Joaquin Phoenix dons the bicorn hat in Ridley Scott’s new biopic, but will he fare better than his predecessors?

A new exhibition is based on the life and works of a man who took part in orgies of rape and torture and boasted he had written the “most impure tale that has ever been told”

Ben Judah’s superb This Is Europe is a tour through the continent’s underbelly, giving voice to the exploited and marginalised

One night in 1989, the greatest gymnast in the world tried to escape from communist Romania

This is a fantastic plate of food, fresh and summery, and ideal for the weather

Discriminating against people on the basis of how they speak is very common, despite the push for diversity in other areas

Sold as the most exciting thing to come out of Europe since the Sex Pistols, his hedonistic lifestyle halted his momentum

Riots in the capital stem from France's inability to deal with the long aftermath of the Algerian War

New photos by Paul McCartney reveal a band on the cusp of global stardom, trapped for a mad three weeks in the city of light

Meet Italy’s new Wonder Woman, Inspector Imma Tataranni

An all-female team’s battle to win the Le Mans 24-hour race and shake up a stale, male world

Jobriath dreamed of combining Dietrich with Dylan and playing at the Paris Opera. Then reality bit

Marking the centenary of a book whose roots run far wider than just Dublin

A 1988 report wrote off the relic as a medieval fake. But now the science seems to be turning. Could it have been a miracle all along?

The writers have taken a film that I couldn't imagine could ever be improved upon and managed to improve upon it

The Soviet spy agency took its Cold War tactics from a Chinese military strategist who died in 500 BC. The same ideas are now being used against Ukraine

Frank and Percy lets the two old stagers do their thing, which is what makes it work so well

No self-respecting person of any sex or gender should set foot inside London’s members’ clubs

For all life threw at her, the writer never lost the last sliver of an innocence battered irreparably by events outside her control

Broad beans are in season, bouncy and abundant

Europe’s first celebrity is celebrated in a treasure trove of objects at Paris’ Petit Palais

An obsession with what the likes of Pulp Fiction’s Vincent Vega and Succession’s Shiv Roy read on screen

A master documentarian returns to Ukraine to show the effects of Putin’s bloody invasion on the lives of ordinary people