Arts and Culture

Memories of Law, Jordan and Souness are being replaced by a new generation of Scottish talent taking Serie A by storm

In Andrea Arnold’s feature, Nykiya Adams and Barry Keoghan present a moving performance without straying into sentimentality

Our English language was brought to us across the North Sea by boatmen landing on the east coast

Georgia’s disputed election has been hailed as a victory for Vladimir Putin, but murals in the capital paint a different picture

The relationship between Jean Marais and Jean Cocteau was one of the great romances of 20th-century European culture

Only bookable by phone or postcard, this London bistro is heaven to anyone of the Luddite persuasion

As arguments about Notre-Dame’s restoration rage on, a new exhibition gathers together stained-glass windows that caused their own controversy in the 1930s

The buttery, flaky pastries have been a breakfast staple for nearly 200 years. Now they’re being remixed

If a new novel is to be believed, the former German chancellor retired to the countryside and started solving murders

A literary festival that reminds us of the healing power of words

Yes, it’s amusing - but Steve Coogan is no Sellers and this can’t match the Kubrick classic

A London exhibition featuring Joseph Beuys and two more key conceptual artists feels dated if occasionally thrilling

Textured and monumental, Blitz is the work of a great British director at the height of his powers

What he saw as the blandness of tradition bore little or no resemblance to the world he knew and the art he wanted to create

What links Philip Glass, Volodymyr Zelensky and Giuseppe Verdi?

The water is beloved thanks to its saltiness and the fact that it is a distinctly natural alternative to booze

The Feargal Sharkey-approved hip hop trio are tearing up the world with message-based rap that’s neither hectoring nor earnest

From James Joyce and Jerome K Jerome to Eliot and Alice Oswald, a personal pick of the greatest writing about rivers

Humanity’s profound physical and spiritual link with water

The art school embodied a renewed liberal spirit in the Weimar Republic but also had complex intersections with the Nazi Party

A new production of Oedipus shows how it should be done

Our editor-at-large’s rundown of the pick of the week’s streaming, cinema, theatre and books

A good show first time round is back for an ill-advised encore

The photographer’s extraordinary images of ordinary lives get a new showing in her centenary year

Graham was one of the most high-profile critics of Reagan’s visit to Bitburg. It was personal

Contronyms – words like ‘sanction’ and ‘cleave’ – are a puzzling phenomenon in English, in that they have two opposite meanings

In the high season Alba is a frenetic, whirling fungal infection of a time

Thomas Vinterberg founded Dogma 95 and changed the movie industry for ever. Is another revolution possible – and what would it look like?

In a tense year, a new Athens exhibition celebrates our precious freedom to vote