Eurofile

One of the greatest Impressionists, Berthe Morisot’s work offered perceptive, unusual glimpses of domestic life

A new book eschews cosy nostalgia to explore the fractures that Europe’s picture postcard tourist traps keep hidden

The Targa Florio road race pitted drivers against every imaginable danger.. including stray dogs

A new play about Sidney Poitier is a fitting allegory for our immoral times

The Dutch cyclist should have fallen to his death after tumbling into a 1,000-foot ravine during the 1951 Tour de France, but emerged in miraculously good shape

This wonderfully fresh springtime dish is a fitting way to hail the new season

My inexplicable inability to call out the bigotry of the far right during an appearance on Question Time nearly a decade ago still rankles to this day

The Americans call it zee, but it is not the only letter pronounced differently in certain parts of the English- speaking world

She was on her way to becoming a tennis all-time great. Then, 30 years ago, an attacker changed history

A revelatory collection of Mediterranean antiquities makes for a quietly subversive exhibition in Cambridge

Two new novels evoke the eeriness thrumming through small coastal towns, where lives wash up like the debris on the beach

The Japanese composer’s work was imbued with a healthy disregard for musical and national boundaries

When Maria Callas met Pier Paolo Pasolini in the late 1960s, the results were predictably explosive

I’ve decided to take up the challenge that this babel of boroughs represents, and over the next few months I intend to visit the most diverse regions of the capital

Why do we have words that sound the same but are spelt differently? Because, in Old English, they sounded different too

The Red Baron shot down a total of 80 allied aircraft in a flying career that made his name immortal both in aerial combat and the history of aviation itself

We are entering asparagus season. I love it, earthy and nutty as it is

How an unstarry, violent story of crime and redemption with echoes of the classic policiers cleaned up at France’s Oscars

Painstakingly plotted, the Swedish author’s bestselling debut Collected Works weighs in at 733 pages – over a quarter of a million words

A new show at the National Gallery maps startling changes in pre-first world war European art

The Brexit architect follows in a long line of stage heroes who are morally questionable or downright loathsome

Noel Coward's play is funny now in a way that is tragic

Thirty years on, the key to the enduring legacy of Krzysztof Kieslowski’s Three Colours trilogy is creativity and love

Even the greatest of writers – from John Steinbeck to Maya Angelou – suffer from the idea that they’re about to be found out

The genius of a mysterious and overlooked painter is revealed at a new exhibition in The Hague

The Breton language of northern France does not derive from Gaulish – it has its roots in migration from Devon and Cornwall

This recipe from the chef of Quality Wines uses the finest charcuterie from rare-breed pigs in the Bologna Apennines

John Huston and Jean-Paul Sartre came together to create a film based on the life of Sigmund Freud, but the project was scuppered by irreconcilable creative differences

The satirical concept of immortal but increasingly senile people in Gulliver’s Travels highlights the societal impact of an ageing population

Morris dancing, folk music and other English traditions are making a comeback. And the new followers are a diverse bunch

Fifty years after his death, the artist’s misogyny is the most pressing aspect of his legacy

It is apparent that Picasso’s name comes to the lips of singers with the same ease as “Jesus” or “Elvis”