Arts and Culture

A raucous, funny movie about controversial Northern Irish rap group Kneecap turns out to be an impassioned cry for the power of indigenous language

The director emerged from a well-trodden European emigration narrative to become a Zelig-like figure in the early history of modern popular culture

Launched in London by a pair of Italian brothers, the much-loved I Camisa is closing after nearly a century in Soho. Why?

Jeff Young’s Wild Twin is an uncompromisingly honest memoir of a lost teenage soul, of adventure, rebellion and the echoes of memory

The photographer used his camera and the city of lights as a doorway to poetry

One Bad Guy denouement makes me think of the Republican Party’s candidate for POTUS

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

Restaurants come and go but only the most lauded, talked-about and popular stick around for any length of time

How Van Gogh’s sister-in-law let go of his work and cemented his legend

There’s plenty of life in the latest 39 Steps revival

In the meantime, the Irish literary scene is thriving

The women’s 800m final causes our writer to pose some awkward questions around race

In medieval times a ford over a stream would have been somewhere to play, and this is reflected in their names

Few things in music sound more like the punchline to a joke than a millionaire mouth organist, but Thielemans forged a brilliantly idiosyncratic path

I freely admit my love of Pizza Express’ version of the powerful sauce, a bottle almost always in my fridge in salad season

Our writers’ rundown of the pick of the week’s books, theatre and streaming

As cinema shows, the coach has a kind of sacred space in American life

Bombed, suppressed, destroyed… but the work of Ukrainian artists goes on

Hanna Pylväinen’s new novel is a haunting tale of love and conflict set in the Sápmi lands of northern Europe in the 19th century

The exotic world of James Bond was also that of his creator, Ian Fleming

The brilliant, troubling Alain Delon was at his most electric when doing nothing other than staring blankly back at us

It’s time for a long exposure for the avant-garde Bauhaus photographer

Fiddler On The Roof is theatre at its best

A dull and thankless endeavour makes you feel sorry for audience and actors

All Olympics opening ceremonies that offer kulturkampf instead of pure spectacle suffer from the same regression to the tacky

One of the most famous questions in English literature is often misunderstood by modern readers

Brecht lived through some of Europe’s darkest times yet still produced some of the 20th century’s boldest, most influential and epoch-defining theatre

How Råpunk – raw punk – brought pure rage to Sweden

The second coming of smash burgers is cause for celebration because thin and flash-fried is how burgers should be

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

Hollywood vintage has produced films of varying quality about hillbilly people. Its masterpiece, of course, is John Ford’s The Grapes of Wrath