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An email about an old family friend stirs ruminations on mysteries and memories

It has two meanings and a fascinating new use. Now read on... if you can be bothered, that is

A new museum dedicated to the Swedish dance star has more in common with its earnest predecessors than at first seems the case

The Johnny Hallyday who took the Albert Hall stage one night 10 years ago was the culmination of 50 years of myth-making

To celebrate Jock McFadyen’s 70th birthday, the Royal Academy’s retrospective features 30 years of paintings of the East End of London

The actual stand-up in Netflix's new dramedy is rarely as funny as it is supposed to be, but the characters are so vivid it barely matters

Ruth Wilson is a serious actor, but this is a singularly boring piece of theatre

In Testament, an exhibition at Goldsmiths Centre for Contemporary Art, contemporary artists have set about ripping up the traditional concept of statues

With more than 100m albums sold, the Anglo-Italian could afford to be sanguine about critical coolness towards his work

Good borscht cannot be cooked quickly - so if you don’t have time now, save this recipe until you have enough

Restrictions on freedom of movement after Brexit have left British competitive cyclists struggling to gain the experience they need to make it

Why Woman's Hour's airing of Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe's sobbing was manipulative

Not for the first time in recent history, Barcelona is playing beautifully while living on bank loans that almost defy financial gravity

Online events have kept us going during Covid, but nothing can replace the real thing

Peter The Great and Nicholas II were part of a centuries-long effort to suppress the language

The Norwegian singer's new album is an undeniably dreamlike, immersive experience

A superb new film may be disowned by its director – because it is set in Russia

The trailblazing artist has joined the ranks of the few artists who have enough work to more than fill two major European shows at the same time

A Netflix biopic of the woman considered Poland's Marilyn Monroe fails to delve in any satisfying way into the interesting story it has to tell

Reasonably daring when first performed in 2009, Mike Bartlett's Cock now feels all mouth and no trousers

Lili Damita began her life as a revue star, ended it as a broken-hearted recluse and married Errol Flynn in between

How a disastrously expensive baseball signing gave his name to a new form of aleatoric art

PETER TRUDGILL on the schools that took children away from their homes and forced them to abandon their own language and practices

Pour yourself a drink and learn how a Ukrainian cocktail maker is using his brand to fundraise for humanitarian work in his home country

Paris St Germain's superstar project has failed and the fans are turning their fire on their expensive acquisitions

Largely forgotten in his own country, Murray Head remains an adoptive hero in France

If we cut off Russian musicians indiscriminately, are we cutting off their right to the free speech over which this battle is essentially being fought?

A new exhibition in Milan shows us the art affluent Europeans would have seen on that 17th- and 18th-century rite of passage, the Grand Tour

A former journalist’s debut novel explores our fascination with the partners of dictators

The Worst Person in the World city's renaissance

The German version of Netflix's hit makeover series looks cheaper and more like a world I can recognise, says MEGAN NOLAN

The National's staging of Small Island shows a theatre that has now totally lost its way