Arts and Culture

Environmental and technological changes will transform the way we eat in coming decades. So what we can expect on our plates in the next 20 years?

CHARLIE CONNELLY rounds up the best titles of 2021 and names one absolute favourite.

Powerful and poignant, the production is the National Theatre at its best.

Producer Bill Kenwright understands that the theatre is a place to laugh, and no more so than after this last year.

Intelligent, genuine and in control, Brussels has sprouted the future of European pop as we approach 2022.

Choral music can bring communities together and lift the soul - if religion is involved then that's fine too. But with Church attendance numbers dropping every year, is it time for some different hymns?

An exhibition of photos by Sefton Samuels evokes memories of football, long before the monied Premier League took over.

Board games have grown up. The big issues of our age can now be played out on tabletops, and one popular game even predicted the USA’s messy exit from Afghanistan.

The master satirist’s complicated relationship with his European contemporaries is explored in a stunning exhibition in London’s Tate Britain.

What can the exploits of the Roys tell us about a real-world media empire?

Still, after 8000 years, Maltese music is centred around cultural eclecticism and originality.

WILL SELF on the naming of the Omicron variant.

Wolff was almost impossible to mistake for anyone else. Yet, he was in The Sun's obituary section.

PETER TRUDGILL on a law that displeased many people in the Czech Republic.

Food writer JOSH BARRIE brings readers a recipe to warm them this winter.

CHARLIE CONNELLY rounds up some of the best titles to give as stocking fillers – and put you in your loved ones’ good books.

This mesmerising and captivating production is as breathtaking as the film.

The highly accomplished actor drones on and provides a bore of a performance.

The Brazilian player defies age. He started with nothing and now plays for millions, still captaining his country 102 captaincies later.

The concept is fashionable yet controversial, exerting a romantic appeal on some and exerting deep atavistic fears in others. But at its essence, rewilding is a simple necessity.

Conquered, subjugated, occupied. For 100 years the Poles were under the thumb of one oppressor or another, but the country fought back by creating art.

The late composer and lyricist Stephen Sondheim was known for Hollywood adaptations of his work. But European movies were closer to his heart.

Paolo Sorrentino’s latest movie is an ode to his home city and to the football genius who once graced it.

Hezza helped save Liverpool because he knew the point of power: Doing stuff, not just saying stuff.

When it comes to becoming an icon to a new generation of moviegoers, Céline Sciamma has been there, done that.. and inspired the t-shirt.

Aspects of the show depicting the Bill Clinton and Monica Lewinsky affair seem so odd, different and plainly wrong that it feels like science fiction.

WILL SELF on his recent stay St Thomas’ Hospital and how it made him realise that the NHS mirrors the strange state of the nation.

It was in her art that she truly lost herself, but this didn't stop Amrita Sher-Gil from finding fault with her work.

Food writer JOSH BARRIE brings readers a recipe from a chef who captures London's endless multiculturalism perfectly.

PETER TRUDGILL on the origins of a tasty dessert – and the disagreement it causes in parts of the Southern Hemisphere.

After the success of The Hare with Amber Eyes, potter and writer Edmund de Waal returns with an exhibition and book of fictional letters about a journey through grief.

The Charles Dickens classic has been staged for the fifth time, and still speaks to modern audiences.