Arts and Culture

We need the Fringe more than ever, but European comedians are finding the price of playing there beyond a joke

This year’s Lerici festival in Italy marks the 200th anniversary of the death of Percy Shelley with a celebration of British culture

Are markets ever a place's real cultural centre, asks our columnist

Celebrated as one of Europe’s leading fashion writers, the Italian was better known for her sheer presence on the scene

Many family names in Britain seem likely to have descended from bynames of Norwegian and Danish origin

This month, the fish is in the last throes of its season, but there’s still a fair bit about. Let’s make the most of it, then

HV Morton was a pioneering travel writer of genius.. and also a philandering, racist snob

Over half a century since her death, the “inner Marilyn” is still alive. I suspect we will never be done with the blonde bombshell

With Nineteen Eighty-Four more relevant than ever, a group of Orwell enthusiasts – in special company – visits the remote house on the Inner Hebridean island of Jura where he wrote his dystopian masterpiece

Around 20,000 people died in the battle, yet mass graves have never been found. Now, we are getting closer to the truth

On Washington DC’s grand 16th Street, an outdoor photography exhibition has brought a fragment of Europe to the new world

If Amon Amarth's Johan Hegg is a Viking, he’s one who is fully paid up to modern Scandi liberal values

A new Spanish Netflix series portrays celebrity as inherently toxic and destructive, and yet a natural ambition for the aimless disenfranchised young people to whom it is sold

Kate Fleetwood plays a delectably wicked Cruella de Vil for all she’s worth, but this is otherwise a dog's dinner

The story is improbable but star Scott Karim can make just about any character seem convincing

Sarina Wiegman, the mastermind of that Euros win, is steeped in a rich coaching tradition

Up in Scotland, my play about Gina Miller's court case against Theresa May's government over parliamentary sovereignty is causing quite the stir

Director Sara Dosa on Maurice and Katia Krafft and their love triangle with volcanoes

Why Germany is swaying to the sound of a controversial hit

A new book examines not only an iconic film and novel, but of the pillar that holds them up – white supremacy

The time has come for Europeans to take back control of the world’s most popular juvenescent fashion statement

The Frenchman was no newshound but had a knack of witnessing some of the 20th century’s key episodes

Colonialists of all stripes have squeezed the island’s indigenous languages out in favour of Mandarin and Hokkien

Tartare with fine cuts of beef, from one of the Czech Republic's most famous chefs, is a new experience for our food writer

As the country faces its greatest crisis, a writer has delivered one of its greatest novels

A fire that destroyed a library in Venice 455 years ago has inspired a superb Anselm Kiefer exhibition on loss and retrieval

Public service radio orchestras have played far more than just a cultural role over the last century but they are now under threat

We should have just enjoyed a World Cup, but money means this year's will take place in winter

In a new documentary, French superstar DJ Laurent Garnier recalls his part in the birth of dance music and traces his career all the way from Manchester’s Haçienda to Tbilisi’s Bassiani

Will Self on the new, colour-conscious Madama Butterfly

Flee is the best representation yet of what it really means to be a refugee

Anything Goes was a lot of fun last summer but it now feels dutiful and robotic