Arts and Culture

Sleepova is one of those free-flowing, slice-of-life dramas that, with a no-frills staging, places a vast amount of pressure on the individual actors to make something of their parts

It’s clear everyone has tried very hard to make this show work. They failed

It’s not just the British who are obsessed with the Nazis – Hitler still boosts sales and viewing figures in Germany

In the 1970s, the Jamaican singer was a new definition of the slogan ‘Black Power’ and she did not need politics

The borderlands of Paris are home to great works of architectural modernism – and some terrible mistakes

Celebrating pizza – a better gauge of human integrity than Matt Hancock

The language arrived in Wales much earlier than England thanks to links between Britons and ordinary Romans

Why tranquil indifference is not the answer to the world's problems

The country is divided over the ‘iron chancellor’, feminist foreign policy and Putin’s ‘manifesto for peace’

Exploring the connection between schizophrenia and emerging technologies

After decades of success in the US and Europe, the Russian composer suffered an ignominious demise in 1950s Moscow

How the jazz musician’s iconic soundtrack to Lift to the Scaffold still resonates today

Celebrating 100 years of the subversive eccentric feted by the Beatles and John Peel

From The Rolling Stones and The Cure to Jean-Louis Murat: How musicians excel at melding literature and song

This delicious dish is inspired by sustainability and doesn’t require anything of which we’re currently short. Nor, thankfully, does it call for turnips...

If we’d been allowed to judge it on own terms, Rachel O’Riordan’s production works perfectly well as a slice-of-life drama

This is an atmospheric drama set during the second world war in a claustrophobic boarding house not far from Cardiff Docks

The Ukrainian-American was forward thinking in his willingness to combine art with the world of science and engineering

This Italian-style dish is ideally suited to late winter

In Italy, the art of dubbing foreign films is creating voiceover celebrities. But that means the homegrown screen industry is losing out

Svetlana Alexievich’s books chart the horrors of history through witness testimony rather than fiction

The Master and Margarita author loved the Ukrainian capital, yet today attracts fierce opprobrium

The British trio are back with more of their despairing, sinister sounds on new album The Fell

Star Trek actor George Takei still finds much about British politics highly illogical

This musical set on an estate in Sheffield charts the changing times of these islands

Sylvia fails to live up to its billing as the serious rival to Hamilton it was originally intended to be

Dogged by criticism, German ballet chief Marco Goecke decided to take matters into his own hands...

The European philosopher who wrote to be understood

The tendency in the collective British psyche towards uchronia – a time that never was – rather than utopia, should gladden the King’s heart, since his entire raison d’être is the preservation of crumbling institutions

He was born into a farming family, but it was always the agricultural machinery rather than the land itself that fascinated the young Ferruccio

This is an ideal midweek meal, playing up to the season diligently but without fuss

Luciano Spalletti could have retired. Yet not only is he back on the touchline, he is thriving