Eurofile

Should undiscovered Terry Pratchett stories, and other posthumous work, be published?

How Sweden’s Eurovision loser became perhaps Europe’s greatest-ever jazz singer

Celebrating pizza – a better gauge of human integrity than Matt Hancock

The language arrived in Wales much earlier than England thanks to links between Britons and ordinary Romans

The remarkable career of the Spanish republican soldier who stumbled into the film industry

The case of a pedestrian jailed for causing the death of a cyclist highlights the ongoing power struggle on the pavements of urban Britain

The story of a bored Liverpudlian housewife finding love on a holiday to Greece now feels very dated

This has been said to be a dark reimagining of the old classic, but it is taking the word too literally

Lukas Dhont’s Close is an ecstatic, tear-jerking tale of adolescent friendship

Exploring the connection between schizophrenia and emerging technologies

After decades of success in the US and Europe, the Russian composer suffered an ignominious demise in 1950s Moscow

How the jazz musician’s iconic soundtrack to Lift to the Scaffold still resonates today

The Elfstedentocht event has been part of Dutch folklore for more than 100 years. But, thanks to climate change, it could well be over for good

Celebrating 100 years of the subversive eccentric feted by the Beatles and John Peel

From The Rolling Stones and The Cure to Jean-Louis Murat: How musicians excel at melding literature and song

This delicious dish is inspired by sustainability and doesn’t require anything of which we’re currently short. Nor, thankfully, does it call for turnips...

Papiamentu is a young creole tongue that formed as a result of contact between many different languages during the Atlantic slave trade

If we’d been allowed to judge it on own terms, Rachel O’Riordan’s production works perfectly well as a slice-of-life drama

This is an atmospheric drama set during the second world war in a claustrophobic boarding house not far from Cardiff Docks

The Ukrainian-American was forward thinking in his willingness to combine art with the world of science and engineering

This Italian-style dish is ideally suited to late winter

In Italy, the art of dubbing foreign films is creating voiceover celebrities. But that means the homegrown screen industry is losing out

Svetlana Alexievich’s books chart the horrors of history through witness testimony rather than fiction

The Master and Margarita author loved the Ukrainian capital, yet today attracts fierce opprobrium

The British trio are back with more of their despairing, sinister sounds on new album The Fell

Star Trek actor George Takei still finds much about British politics highly illogical

This musical set on an estate in Sheffield charts the changing times of these islands

Sylvia fails to live up to its billing as the serious rival to Hamilton it was originally intended to be

The tendency in the collective British psyche towards uchronia – a time that never was – rather than utopia, should gladden the King’s heart, since his entire raison d’être is the preservation of crumbling institutions

The names of our cities, towns and villages are part of the linguistic heritage of Britain – but some have a complicated history

He was born into a farming family, but it was always the agricultural machinery rather than the land itself that fascinated the young Ferruccio

This is an ideal midweek meal, playing up to the season diligently but without fuss