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I have decided to grow a beard – my mission is to reconcile the two most antipathetic faith communities of London in the contours of my own face

Even for all her success and the wealth that came with it, Valadon’s bohemianism remained undiminished

Why the ‘father of Czech classical music’ switched from a German Friedrich to a Czech Bedrich

Pick up your pan, your spoon, your rice, and get stirring. Risotto is about to have a moment in Britain

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

One shot tells you everything about this immortal cinematographer

A new exhibition connects the work of over 50 women from across the world

Ireland is going through a golden literary age – but Sinéad Gleeson’s extraordinary debut stands out from the rest

In 1974, the group won Eurovision.. and changed Sweden

Bayern Munich may have been in turmoil this season but the England striker is in the form of his life

A show that celebrates the NHS is worthy, surreal but seldom involving

Church is one of the only places in London with black and white people doing something wholeheartedly together that isn’t working for the goddamn man

Finesse, sensuality and richness are what Debussy brought to a staid musical world unprepared for such an emphatic upending of form and technique

A meeting with Kim Cattrall conjures up thoughts of Anne Boleyn, and a shift in stress in the syllables of their surnames

Over seven weeks in Almería Lennon worked tirelessly on arguably his greatest, and most personal, Beatles composition, Strawberry Fields Forever

How an 18th-century Somerset cobbler’s obsessive love of reading shaped the world of bookselling as we know it

The Italian-Northern Irish stand-up has built a huge following by poking fun at Britain’s past

Her portraits of women in active roles and her self-belief make her a pioneering figure in art history

Vintage cinema abounds with stereotypes, and it is the hardest element of the genre to watch

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

Creamy carbonara? It’s time to accept the silliness

The Morning Show star shines in a tale of deception

Brave audience members can choose to get right in the thick of the musical’s action

When it comes to working with my hands I am a dunce. Enter Rashad and Google Translate

To the Dutchman commercial art was just as fulfilling as something more purely creative – and it came with a wage

Are devastation and destruction wreaked or wrought? And why did the word havoc change from ‘havot’ in the first place?

In a new book by a best-selling French author, ancient onlookers watch a family come to terms with a disabled child

How Paul Nougé helped create a movement... then disowned it

For all the failings of this country these past years, one industry that has improved, year after year, is restaurants

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

A Frank Capra picture always embodied what Abraham Lincoln appealed to in US citizens: “The better angels of our nature”