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Spanish beef is being celebrated in the best possible way, on the corner of two streets in the City of London

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

The innovative works of Norway’s Anna-Eva Bergman, realised in metal leaf, bear comparison with Rothko and Klimt

We are once again entering a time of introspection and reminiscence as the long summer days give way to mists and mellow fruitfulness

That Keir Starmer has been letting a millionaire buy him and his wife clothes is not some life-shattering betrayal, but it is a betrayal nonetheless

The rise and fall of the spaghetti western

Reports about the Olympic Games in Paris illustrate the differences in sporting language between American and British English

The Frenchman relished each project with its opportunity for reinvention, presenting a new challenge each time

A major influencer in China visited and sparked a recurrent wave of visitors eager to try the same dishes they did

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

The small town of Bodø has achieved recognition as the European Capital of Culture 2024. Now, will it also recognise one of its own?

An intelligent and fearless French novel of clear-eyed anger digs deep into contemporary morality

Thirty timeless classics shot on the continent

It is not an easy thing to say, but buying things online – specifically cheap, poorly made things – should not be as easy as it currently is

Tom Stoppard’s play now seems irredeemably dated

For secular people, death places the sort of minor inconveniences which, for the most part, irradiate our mundane lives, in a savage sort of proportion

One of the first women of celebrity in the modern sense of the word, Elisabeth of Austria was a gifted, vibrant woman imprisoned by contemporary etiquette

What do you get when you mix Ancient Greek with Scottish Gaelic? An almost flightless mountain bird

There are some foods that work to a near-unfathomable degree. This is that: a total, unadulterated masterstroke of a lunch

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

What is behind the rise in Spain of dark tourism, the trend for visiting places associated with tragedy?

Three architects pitch monuments to massacres in Lara Haworth’s debut novel about who gets to write history

Angelina Jolie’s Callas biopic sinks at the Venice Film Festival

The third Death of England play is funny and dazzling.. even watching its audience is a joy

Gentrification was supposed to be the beginning of an end. But if anything Brixton seems livelier than it has done for years

Many slang and everyday Latin words, rather than upper-class vocabulary, shaped modern languages such as French and Spanish

A raucous, funny movie about controversial Northern Irish rap group Kneecap turns out to be an impassioned cry for the power of indigenous language

The director emerged from a well-trodden European emigration narrative to become a Zelig-like figure in the early history of modern popular culture

Launched in London by a pair of Italian brothers, the much-loved I Camisa is closing after nearly a century in Soho. Why?

Jeff Young’s Wild Twin is an uncompromisingly honest memoir of a lost teenage soul, of adventure, rebellion and the echoes of memory