Arts and Culture

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

If opera needs a way to entrance new, younger audiences, this production of Samson needs to get on the road

The small town of Barga in Italy celebrates Burns night in its own way

The Death Of England is cutting-edge theatre that doesn’t care who it offends

Is there no land so remote nowadays that its cuisine can’t receive the descriptor ‘street’ and be flogged from a stall at lunchtime to British workers?

This technical terminology is easily understood and describes the act of parsing playful sentences that are designed to confuse

Why do we make so much fuss about ‘copying’ in the arts when almost everything we create is based on something else?

How the British countryside saved modern art’s greatest champion