Arts and Culture

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

This pared-down production is very much a star vehicle for the Game of Thrones actor Emilia Clarke

Fujiko Nakaya: Nebel Leben is the first comprehensive survey exhibition of the visionary sculptor outside of Japan

The electronic music pioneer on Brexit, rave, streaming and re-imagining the band's hits three decades on

The Dutch actor brought depth at a time when the industry expected little more from roles than grunting henchmen, murderous Nazis or ring fodder for Rocky Balboa

For many of us, holidays offer a chance to catch up on our reading and in our post-Covid, post-Brexit world, so too does tortuous travel. CHARLIE CONNELLY has you covered

Even if banging on about vegetables is tiring, eating them isn’t

A new recording of a Bob Dylan classic takes our columnist back to a bathetic night in Wisconsin

Hip hop and rap are holding a mirror up to a changing Latvia, its problems and its obsessions

The return of the band who made a continent cool

Unless we change our thinking, we will never achieve a revolution in our understanding of reality. We need to shed our ignorance

Eating well goes beyond the food itself. It's about understanding the story behind each and every bite

Disabled people are stuck inside a reality defined by the non-disabled

These theories have a deep yet simple-sounding approach to reality and physicists have been using them for years

No matter our age, we can always construct and reconstruct our mental abode inside our minds. But, we must remember to clear out objects that have served their purpose

Little known elsewhere, the brutal Calcio Storico is a 500-year-old annual tradition unique to the Tuscan city

I was eight years old when I discovered Albert Einstein. His words not only changed my life, but scientific thinking too

Yes, art can shape our reality. But the metaverse can show us what could be possible in our future

In the future, we’ll be working and playing in digital worlds. Therefore the time to find any meaning in them is now

In Hamlet, Ophelia holds the promise that love doesn't recoil in the face of reality. It is time we opened our arms to the idea

Both Newton and Einstein were right. But, if there are so many inexhaustible, infinite realities, what's to say that there may actually be none at all?

Archaeological evidence indicates the language was used in southern England before the Roman invasion of AD43