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What do Patrick Süskind’s classic and Asako Yuzuki's contemporary novel tell us about the philosophy of smell and taste?

From Perfection and Careless People to Stephen King and Katie Price, your summer reading is sorted

Right wingers claiming that ‘woke’ has killed the galleries are indulging in wishful thinking

Once upon a time the internet was going to give a voice to the marginalised. Now it seems right wingers are manipulating the attention economy for their own ends

The city is quite obscenely beautiful, and the people are as warm as the weather

We usually transliterate the composer's name so as to have it beginning with the letter T. But why?

When Nazism came to her adopted home of France, the New Zealand journalist became a leading member of the resistance

We can’t be sure that, even if life were staring us in the face on Europa, we’d recognise it as such

HUNTR/X – stars of Netflix’s animated film KPop Demon Hunters – are female, fictional and seemingly unstoppable

A mad, mournful documentary about brothers on the edge stunned the Czech Republic’s biggest film festival. Then real life caught up

London’s Laptop Orchestra is reinventing classical music by teaching computers to play

The artist who recreates photographs as monumental charcoal pictures is at his best among the world’s trouble spots

Oprah Winfrey made me love Wally Lamb. But with The River is Waiting for Me, the spark has gone

The painter didn’t have much time for art, or sex or his home town. But don’t let that fool you

The debate around migration has never been more febrile. Time then for Fenix, which celebrates art by and about refugees

Petra Volpe’s extraordinary movie powerfully dramatises the human consequences of the crises facing nursing today

The meanings of fancy and fantasy have diverged rather considerably over the centuries, just as the spellings have also changed

An unashamed member of the educated liberal elite, he parlayed his wit and access into a career of TV interviews and debates

It appears that our vocabulary is entrained with the Zeitgeist, whether we like it or not

A whole new wave of apps offers a whole new world of opportunity

The most-performed living composer celebrates his 90th birthday

The sari is given a radical reimagining in a bold Birmingham exhibition

As Ozzy Osbourne bows out, rock’s other shock legend returns to his roots – and reminds us who did it first

The Aboriginal artist’s vibrant works celebrate ancestral land, culture and a deep connection to nature

At Wembley Stadium, Liam and Noel Gallagher served up pure sonic energy, proving that the best things in life can live forever

Keeley Hawes’s The Assassin is part of a rash of film and TV about professional killers. When and how did they become aspirational?

The best Marvel offering since Avengers: Endgame (2019), the film works by embracing the technicolour Americana of the comic strip original

In Suzie Miller’s latest legal drama, the Hollywood favourite plays a judge and mother facing her worst nightmare

Daniel Craig’s 007 is dead, yet James Bond will return. Can Amazon revive him without ruining everything?

Spelling pronunciations in general are steadily becoming part of our linguistic landscape