Arts and Culture

Last month, the city of Marseille lit up to celebrate 30 years since its club’s European Cup win – a victory overshadowed by disgrace

Manchester City have been a constant parade of sensational footballers over the last few years, but none arrived in the same way the Norwegian striker did

The simultaneous elevation of the chip into gastronomy, and its demotion, via pulverising and reconstitution into the soggy cardboard substratum of contemporary British poverty, marks its nadir

So significant was her contribution to Italian film that it led to the addition of a word to the Italian dictionary: borellismo

The journalist Simon Jenkins claims the Celtic tribe and language did not exist. He is wrong – as Julius Caesar could have told him...

This is a fancy and complex plate of food because Hall-McCarron’s delicate and careful combinations of flavour are majestic, but with time and energy it can be replicated at home

New series A Small Light explores Miep Gies’s acts of humanity – and it prompted a look at my own family history

There was much to enjoy at Cannes – but the same old players doing the same old things hints that cinema may be due a shake-up

Great writers give us more than just good stories to read, they help us define ourselves and our place in the world

This was not just a motley gathering of eccentrics – remember, Ukip were never taken seriously, and look what damage they managed to inflict on Britain

Pirelli’s vast Milan gallery is a temple of daring contemporary art

An Aspects of Love revival feels uncomfortable three decades on

The stage version of Brokeback Mountain is well-meaning, well-acted and well, pointless

Did the Third Reich really have teams of archaeologists dedicated to finding sacred relics in the name of Aryan mastery? The answer, unbelievably, is yes.

After a decade of striving for success, David Bowie finally had it all. And then he seemed to throw it all away by killing off “my monster”

As Portugal sailed the world’s seas in the 15th and 16th centuries, its language spread globally – nowhere further than Macao

This is a dessert worth queuing for. It’s a bit different and absolutely worth trying

The contest looks plausibly like an alternative governmental structure for our fissiparous yet self-loving continent

Wherever she went, the breakout role which made her name always seemed to be at her shoulder

An exile’s redemptive return to track four generations of family history in the “backyard of a country that still thinks it’s an empire”

Decades from now, this once-in-a-lifetime series will still be watched as a cultural artefact of a particular moment in history

The Florida governor has taken on a formidable foe in a battle for the heart of American childhood

Martin Scorsese, Steve McQueen and the late Martin Amis deliver the goods at an unexpectedly soggy Cannes Film Festival

The rivalry and respect between Manet and Degas

1990s musical Once on This Island gets a sensational revival

Martin Amis once confided his belief that his literary legacy would not last long. It was one of the rare occasions that he was wrong

In an age of stultified self-censorship and blandness, we have lost an author who always ran towards gunfire

How the KGB took their Cold War tactics from a Chinese military strategist who died 500 years before the birth of Christ - and why they still work

Based on a WWII deception that fooled the Nazis, Operation Mincemeat is a deft pastiche

Is The Ugly Duchess a work of misogyny, a portrait of deformity or the mocking of an aristocrat? Or all three?

Today only the Hebridean islands remain strongholds of a language that was once dominant across almost all of Scotland

The Austrian’s life was defined by a single event lasting 55 seconds