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Toulouse-Lautrec was an aristocrat who recognised in the outliers of society a shared vulnerable otherness

This Danish colloquialism for menstruation is just one of countless slang terms and phrases – often demeaning – that apply to women

If history had been different, Lope de Vega might have been regarded as the greatest dramatist of them all

As Rimbaud’s masterpiece A Season In Hell turns 150, reappraising the short life and wild times of a talented, toxic “damned soul”

A City salad bar was predicted by this columnist 30 years ago

This comforting and easy salad works as a refreshing aside to a barbecue, sun willing, or a main course

Technology is making forged paintings easier to identify, and giving us a chance to appreciate the art and craft of the counterfeiters

Amid strikes and sexism, the Venice Film Festival plays it safe

Makkabi Berlin have become the first Jewish club to play in Germany's premier cup

The Northern Irish rockers on Brexit, Britpop and their blistering new album

There’s no one angrier and more uptight than a westerner who practices a philosophy based on bodily attunement and the renunciation of desire

Eclipsed by contemporaries like Garbo and Dietrich, it’s difficult today to appreciate just what a presence Baclanova was in her heyday

From ‘crispbread phoners’ to ‘Cheryl Coles’, many of the latest slang terms around the world have been coined by technology and global events

Links with British industry and French universities – through ‘rugger diplomacy’ – helped to turn Romania into a surprising hotbed of the sport

I missed out on the crispy pork belly from Cambridge brasserie Six, but you don't have to

A Dutch royal residence has been turned into a huge public art gallery – a lesson for other royal families, perhaps?

Full of intriguing quirks and anecdotes, Andrew Martin’s Metropolitain is nothing short of a love letter to a subterranean railway

Dalí! Hollywood! Rotten eggs! The German electro-rockers pushed more than just musical boundaries

Researchers have just added another piece to the jigsaw that is a body from the Copper Age

Through hard work and determination the actress forged an exalted presence in the French screen canon

A viewing brings some shocking home truths about the state of the rental property market

For the author Maylis de Kerangal, reading one of her books in another language is like hearing a familiar tune on a new instrument

This mushroom recipe is worth cooking and good on a slice or two of sourdough toast

A tour of British and European slang of the past begins with old terms for drinking too much.. and feeling the effects afterwards

The city’s unloved museum of archaeology shines after a makeover that makes its treasure trove of objects sing

Oil is fine. Sport tells us so: whispering to us in our dreams, dropping subtle hints every time we turn on the sports channels

Her live show, Medico, offers laughter as a medicine for life's troubles and has taken the Edinburgh Fringe Festival by storm

Simon Williams has written a very clever and thoughtful play with an unusually sure grasp of the human condition

To the end, the German remained convinced that revolution was in the best interests of the people

The home secretary seems intent on some sort of grotesque pogrom-as-payback

How direct contact with Welsh and Gaelic speakers left its mark on the migrant tribes who moved into what is now Germany

How a Swiss DJ and a British label turned an old tape of Bulgarian singers into a global underground hit