Arts and Culture

A hit almost a decade ago, this production now feels like a joke in very poor taste

Waleed Akhtar is a writer prepared to address issues head-on and with enormous clarity and courage

300 years after Maria Sibylla Merian first ventured into the Amazon, the artist and scientist’s influence is still felt today

A 3,000km cycle ride across the continent reveals the consequences of climate change – and what we can do to stop it

Each of Venice’s 1,000 islands carries its own world. What happened when a Londoner (originally from France) moved there?

A recent experience with removal men helped me understand something. The mark of relatively free society is that the personal trumps the political

The Italian word obbligato has come to have two entirely contradictory meanings when used in English

This dessert from Tom Kerridge makes for a comforting end to a meal. What's more, you can bake it in support of the chef's commitment to slashing prices during the cost-of-living crisis

This production challenges politics, our values and the dystopia we are beginning to call normal with style and intelligence

It's a show filled with obvious and patronising themes. In trying to take on too much, it feels almost punitively long

At the centre of Samantha Morton’s new series about the Medicis is a maligned queen whose character remains a mystery

Technophobe and literary rover Javier Marías managed to live a life as extraordinary as his work

The sporting talents of Khvicha Kvaratskhelia, nicknamed Kvaradona, are surprising and thrilling

The visionary French-Swiss film director and giant of the French New Wave left us breathless with his films. He's how he did it

Even at the age of 87, Irving was pondering if he had achieved enough during his career

Witty, cathartic and darkly funny, Sharon Horgan’s Irish revenge comedy proves hell hath no fury like a sister scorned

Kid Kapichi's new album is smart, fearless and reflects a broken and rudderless Brexit Britain

At the height of his fame, the star of Ghostbusters and Groundhog Day called time on his movie career. Why? So he could study philosophy at the Sorbonne

Who really was 'The Man Who Broke the Bank at Monte Carlo'?

Look past the Irish clichés in Colin Farrell’s Venice award-winner and you’ll find a beautiful, bleakly comic movie

The French Resistance has often been portrayed in a less than serious light, but that could not be further from the truth, as the memoirs of Marie Chamming’s illustrate

Jonas Fjeld kicked off his career by trying to make the worst record in history. This year, he now celebrates 50 years of success in the industry

How two different forms of the Celtic language continue to influence modern surnames and pronunciations

This production misses the opportunity for laughs and instead its themes verge on patronising

This well-intentioned production, sadly, lacks any real drama

This recipe is enlivening, sustainable and far superior to salmon en croute

Robert Lewandowski embarks on a new chapter in his striking career

Hamnet’s Maggie O’Farrell creates another major work from one of history’s minor characters

Broad Peak explores the life story of Maciej Berbeka, the Polish mountaineer who returned to the summit of his obsession and, sadly, never left

Is it the small size of Scotland’s population that gives them a linguistic kink: a desire to reduce everything to the compass of a cosy domesticity?

There was far more to Anna Maria Pierangeli than what cinema-goers saw on the screen and friends saw off it

Discoveries of tablets inscribed with curses provide an insight into the language spoken by the British lower classes