Arts and Culture

Having waited his entire life for this coronation service, and having apparently played a central role in devising it, the King was nonetheless unable to memorise his own lines

Romans, in particular, become stressed when dishes are vandalised. Serve this to a Roman nonna and she may well try to conquer you again

As Russian rockets rained down on Ukraine, the contest’s political genie was finally let out of the bottle

Germany has returned 1,117 looted Benin Bronzes to Nigeria, but who really owns them?

East Germany’s first black policeman started the 1990s as a media phenomenon, but ended it in jail. A new series tells his story

Remembering a master, 40 years after his death

The pipe dream that the genie of AI is going to be thrust back in the bottle is just that

How a simple linguistic mistake linked a nymph from Greek mythology to the music genre that originated in the Caribbean

Napoli’s joy at winning Serie A is about much more than their long wait – it is about a history of abuse from their northern rivals

Life need not be completely depressing in modern Britain. Praise be to pie

A meditative masterpiece explores rediscovered friendships and the art of finding simpler ways through our complex world

The American right’s culture battles are creating empty shelves in Republican states. Could Britain join in with this madness?

A new exhibition explores whether Ancient Greece's labyrinth existed or was a confection of the imagination cultivated over the centuries

Nightmares were the business of Hans Ruedi Giger, who drew on his own to create surrealist art – and the creature at the heart of Alien

The recent Ed Sheeran plagiarism court case revives the old question of where music really comes from

Many TV comedy actors come a cropper when they turn to serious stage roles, but the League of Gentlemen star captures Sir John magnificently

Forget the headlines. Children's reading comprehension is on the decline, and their books are to blame

The German was behind some of the greatest war images ever taken by some of the best news photographers ever to wield a Leica

The English spoken by lesser-known white West Indians shows significant linguistic differences from that spoken by black West Indians

Taramas is a glorious dip, reliant only on cod’s roe, old bread, oil, garlic, lemon juice and the like. I’m not convinced anything tastes more Mediterranean

One of the greatest Impressionists, Berthe Morisot’s work offered perceptive, unusual glimpses of domestic life

A new book eschews cosy nostalgia to explore the fractures that Europe’s picture postcard tourist traps keep hidden

The Targa Florio road race pitted drivers against every imaginable danger.. including stray dogs

A new play about Sidney Poitier is a fitting allegory for our immoral times

This wonderfully fresh springtime dish is a fitting way to hail the new season

The Americans call it zee, but it is not the only letter pronounced differently in certain parts of the English- speaking world

A revelatory collection of Mediterranean antiquities makes for a quietly subversive exhibition in Cambridge

Two new novels evoke the eeriness thrumming through small coastal towns, where lives wash up like the debris on the beach

The Japanese composer’s work was imbued with a healthy disregard for musical and national boundaries

When Maria Callas met Pier Paolo Pasolini in the late 1960s, the results were predictably explosive

I’ve decided to take up the challenge that this babel of boroughs represents, and over the next few months I intend to visit the most diverse regions of the capital

In the early 70s, the band decamped to the rural Netherlands to make a ‘comeback’ album that nearly finished them