Arts and Culture

There’s far more to Irish cinema than the pain and cliches of Colin Farrell’s dark comedy – as a recent Galway film festival showed

This cod dish is exquisitely considered and delicate, but doable in the home

Spain's rock’s greatest frontman was silenced by “sand in my lungs”. Now, miraculously, he’s back

A new version of an Italian classic comes to the UK, in more ways than one

No-one else wrote like the Czech author, a man who rejected our ‘foolish certainties’ and defined the European novel for the modern age

The death of the Czech-French novelist made me wonder if I exiled myself, just to get out of Ronald Reagan’s America

Aqua were right: we’re all Barbie girls and we’re all living in a Barbie world

Whatever her outlet, the Spanish writer always derived immense pleasure from reactions to her work and never lost her gratitude

The Angles and the Saxons came to these shores across the North Sea and gave their names to the different areas they settled in

Lina Stores has looked further afield – to America, essentially – than the Ligurian hills for inspiration

The author lives on in a Barcelona conference which asks what he would make of the upcoming Spanish election and Franco’s legacy

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