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Are there really any health benefits to being hit over the head with a sword by a drunk Austrian monarchist?

In this audacious biopic, Timothée Chalamet brilliantly captures the spirit of the original disruptor, Bob Dylan

No, the Hawaiian has nothing to do with Italy. But yes, it is delicious

What happens when some of the men behind big tech – Elon Musk, Mark Zuckerberg – start going in a direction that makes you feel nauseous?

The footballer was the toast of the Viennese coffee houses, the intelligence of his play being praised in the same terms as poets

How prewar Germany turned an embassy close to Buckingham Palace into a temple to Hitler’s ideology

The Bad Sisters bad guy turns hero in William Tell – and tells us how his name is really pronounced…

UK publishing is richer than ever – yet most authors scrape to make a living, libraries are under threat and Brexit adds unwelcome red tape

There is usually a way to translate supposedly untranslatable words into English – even if it does take a bit longer

A new exhibition recalls the litany of catastrophe that has afflicted the world for centuries

Manchester pop-up Humbug is using the meat from just one animal - Maraschino the Red Poll cow

As Jesse Eisenberg’s second outing as writer-director, this plangent reflection of the legacy of the Holocaust is a tremendous accomplishment

John Crowley's beautiful film doesn't shy away from the gut-wrenching reality of cancer, instead it embraces it

Neither culture is flawless but, together, we could become more than the sum of our parts

Many directors might not have scaled their creative heights without Ponti’s recognition that one could make daring and challenging cinema and still turn a profit

Aberdeen may be in Scotland, but its name derives from the Welsh for river mouth. Why?

How a grumpy star, a broken piano and an improvised set added up to a timeless jazz classic recorded 50 years ago – the legendary Köln Concert

MAGA’s resurgence means that works by George Orwell, Khaled Hosseini, Anne Frank and even Agatha Christie are under threat

Rather than take part in a fad, consider spending the month eating produce from regenerative farms

Despite the grey skies and dreariness of winter, Scotland’s capital retains its allure in the colder months

Oscar-winner Asif Kapadia on his new docu-drama and the road to dystopia

Belgium is a funny old nation and that's what the most famous statue in Brussels, the Manneken Pis, represents to me

This adaptation of Colson Whitehead’s 2019 Pulitzer Prize-winning novel deserves – at minimum – an Oscar nomination for best picture

What is mere storage space to them represents chunks of our lives that would otherwise go unremembered

The daughter of a songwriter and from a long line of composers, the woman born Isabelle Gall was predestined for a career in music

Pet names, known technically as hypocoristics, often use abbreviation, rhyming, and vowel changes to express familiarity and fondness

For those who want tunes with their travel, Europe is home to an astonishing plethora of annual summer jazz festivals

A feast of festivals, ancient churches, bridge jumping and more make up Europe’s cultural hotspots for 2025

Has director Robert Eggers bitten off more than he can chew with a remake of FW Murnau’s 1922 classic?

Death of England, one of the cultural highlights of 2024, is coming to streaming. But what’s next for playwright Roy Williams?