Eurofile

ROTUS: Receptionist of the United States is a searingly smart and unexpectedly dark piece of political satire. It’s also uncomfortably plausible

I found Greek mythology a bit stuffy and dull when I studied it at school, but now I get why so many people got hooked over the centuries

Despite its strong association with US sport and policing, the term ‘rookie’ has a complicated history

Dismissed by friends and launched in an era when women lacked the vote, Ocampo’s Sur magazine became a defining force in 20th-century literature and politics

The CEO of Nvidia has announced a breakthrough in AI systems for self-driving vehicles. Is this a cause for excitement or should we regard it as a warning?

The writer’s Reith Lecture, just reprinted, caused controversy in 1993 – but its conclusions seem oddly prescient

A joint exhibition at Tate Britain reveals the story of two geniuses who did some of their best work in the worst weather

Former Newsnight journalist Deborah Cohen’s new book explores how influencer culture and wellness marketing have created a boom market in dodgy health advice

Dehumanisation, obedience and lack of empathy: what drives people to commit the worst acts imaginable

A tournament meant to unite the world is fast becoming a pageant of American belligerence and a celebration of a bullying president’s life and work

Seventy years after Cortina first hosted, a very different Games returns to the town that once hosted Hemingway and Bond

Having decided to sell off my daughter’s baby clothes, I set up a shop on Ebay. And that’s when the messages started

Nia DaCosta takes the reins in this no-holds-barred exploration of cults, superstition and what happens to humanity when reason collapses

Trump and co like to imagine the Arctic as empty, silent and ripe for the taking. In fact it is noisy, political and increasingly angry

A year after his death, the Twin Peaks director is universally loved. Would this Don of darkness really be happy about that?

The high finance drama used to tease and torment by making us care about scumbags. Now it’s genuinely thrilling and terrifying too

The high street temple of face gems and bad decisions gave us something TikTok never could: the freedom to get it wrong

Some familiar words we use in everyday English carry surprising traces of Malay, a language spoken widely across south-east Asia

In 1961, before the first human reached space, a chimpanzee was strapped into a rocket and sent into the unknown

An unusually early flu season was mistaken for an unusually severe one – raising questions about how risk is communicated and how unprepared the NHS remains

Being constantly reachable fuels our self-importance. But there is a better way

The American-Asian artist’s brutal killing ended a life of huge promise – but her voice could not be silenced

Brazil’s Inhotim Institute, a vast open-air museum, is part botanical garden, part moral maze

Mysteries, misdiagnoses and miracles marked the extraordinary life of New Zealand’s greatest writer. Yet she remains oddly undercelebrated in her own land

Gerry Gable, the dedicated, controversial founder of Searchlight magazine, had infiltrators and spies on his books in an intelligence war against racism

Rugby internationals in England sell tens of thousands of tickets, but almost no one follows the game at club level. What’s going on?

From Saturday Night Live to Star Wars, the 1970s reinvented Japan’s warrior elite – now the subject of a major exhibition – as pop mythology

Andy West, the man who inspired the hit new drama, on nature, change and the ‘terrible, dehumanising’ life behind bars

There is not a shred of sentimentality in Chloé Zhao’s magnificent adaptation of Maggie O’Farrell’s 2020 novel. This is where its brilliance lies

From the Beckhams to Eddie Murphy and Charlie Sheen, they promise truth but deliver reputation-laundering dressed up as intimacy