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Bold and unsettling, Luca Guadagnino’s latest project easily transcends its contemporary source material

A sci-fi film from 2013 was meant to offer a utopian vision of the future – in fact it is a perfect picture of our age of techno nihilism

A new exhibition at IWM London is a stark reminder of how Britain's post-colonial conflicts shaped the modern world

How 17th-century French pronunciation was taken across the Atlantic Ocean from northern and western France to North America

Discouraged by the sexism she’d suffered in mountain climbing circles, Tabei took matters into her own hands

Ketty La Rocca’s early death brought a sudden halt to her witty, melancholy outsider art

The old models aren’t working like they used to – it’s time for something different

Jung Chang on her family’s painful history with the communist regime – and her sequel to the bestselling Wild Swans

A meeting to celebrate the 75th anniversary of Alan Turing’s famous paper drew a fairly unanimous judgment from the expert speakers

For centuries it was the city’s literary salon. Now, Antico Caffè Greco’s doors are shut

Ebs Burnough’s new documentary, Kerouac's Road: The Beat of a Nation, wants you to believe that we have more desire to communicate than social media will lead you to believe

In his spellbinding novels, Hungary’s new Nobel laureate turns despair into resistance

The wartime PoW camp has gone interactive and now its high-tech memorials offer both a reminder and a warning to its visitors

The reels from Palestine and Italy might be a century old – but they feel shockingly of the moment

It was the stylish cult hit that ushered in a new generation of French film-making. But does Jean-Jacques Beineix’s thriller hold up 40-odd years on?

Welcome to Sora, the AI video platform so powerful it risks throwing the entire internet, and all its users, into confusion

Fact or fiction, O'Hagan's use of language always delivers on both wit and sheer beauty. His latest book, On Friendship, is no exception

The master’s new 1930s-set novel Shadow Ticket feels less like fiction and more like breaking news

This Hamlet is an unignorable feat of acting genius

You don’t need to negotiate with anyone, and if you suddenly decide that whatever plans you made before leaving no longer suit you then you can change your mind

Where does the common name Wright come from? The answer has its roots in work

It was a dedication to nature and equality that led to Sankara’s bloody removal

The discovery of traces of a blue pigment on a stone shaped into a shallow dish at a Palaeolithic site in Germany is quite a find

As Trump tries to claim the arts for his elite, the Black feminist trailblazer makes the case for them belonging to everyone

Amsterdam’s Eye Filmmuseum has dedicated an entire show to one performer for the first time

Ignored at home, female artists from Australia and New Zealand came to Europe and forged their own daring style

Research shows that listening to a novel is just as good for our brains as leafing through one. Now sales are outperforming every other sector of publishing

The V&A’s new exhibition shows Marie Antoinette as both icon and casualty of luxury

His Thursday Murder Club books are brilliantly crafted. Which makes the total failure of the film version so puzzling

The Mayfair version of a glitzy Manhattan restaurant arrives with style – and some doubts