Eurofile

Vyacheslav Akhunov had to keep his subversive art secret from Soviet censors. Now, at 78, he has become an unlikely star of the Venice Biennale

Philosophical writer Jorge Luis Borges loathed international football. He was wrong about the sport, but right about the nationalism it engenders

A game without the roars and songs of proper supporters is like a Hollywood blockbuster without a score

A triumphant National Portrait Gallery exhibition shows how the star created her own myth

For every standout performance in The Hours, there’s a stinker like Scarpetta. Yet this is part of her unknowable mystique

The problem is that Apple Music, Spotify, Amazon and the others all offer the same thing. The infinite jukebox is useful and fun, but a change could be on the horizon and it could come from the musicians themselves

Ratings for the ITV juggernaut have tanked as audiences abandon artificial glamour for reality shows with actual humanity

Now 93, the much-loved illustrator best known for his work on Roald Dahl books has realised a long-held dream - the world's largest space dedicated to illustration

Once derided as a ‘singing budgie’, the actor turned pop megastar has redefined what it means to be Australian, and made Britain happier too

Gary Stewart was brilliant, briefly revered and doomed by drug addiction. Now a new biography finally gives him his due

Her homages to painters from Monet to Pollock only underline her own unique genius

Frank Furedi’s wearying In Defence of Populism reveals it offers no coherent and workable policy agenda and relies on authoritarian ‘solutions’

The traitor was driven by Marxist beliefs, a snobbish desire for dominance – but also a deadly naivety

Angélique Kidjo takes back the African sounds borrowed by western artists – and makes better records from them

Jared Isaacman’s bid to restore Pluto’s planetary status looks less like science and more like populism in space

Only 34 people alive are in the most exclusive club on the planet. One photographer set out to track them down

The cartoonish villain who turned to cocaine was once an Olympic-calibre wrestler who helped US athletes win gold

Its name comes from an indigenous North American language that requires a trick of the throat

Every year, in the Faroe Islands, pods of whales are trapped and hacked to pieces in the water. Just because it has been done for centuries does not mean it has to continue

An argument has broken out over a short story prize. But the argument over whether the author was human has revealed an unsettling truth about computer-generated text

Dating has become a series of compounded costs, where the freedoms of being independent now come with a penalty

The first people to use modern cosmetic surgery had very specific requirements. You can now see the consequences of that in everyone from celebrities to looksmaxxers

A man fell on a mountain trail and needed an emergency airlift to hospital. The guide made all the arrangements – but then something happened that just didn’t feel right

In a Padua chapel that became a workshop, he brought tenderness and complexity to biblical figures - and painting would never be the same

Rosamund Pike was right to call out a texting theatregoer. But is a new approach needed?

Season two’s gentle satire and mid-life angst is catnip for Gen Xers

A thaw between Xi and Trump is worrying residents of the independent island

Non-fiction sales are declining as fathers swap weighty Churchill biographies for history podcasts

Infantilised by a political class that thinks we’re thick, voters are encouraged to engage their emotions instead of studying facts. That’s dangerous

The new video game that takes the spy back to his roots shows film-makers how to revitalise the franchise