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Lamb chops are heaven – the ultimate bar snack, the ideal summer food to be enjoyed outside with a bottle of Whispering Angel or Burgundy

The Portuguese capital is fast becoming the go-to place for elite football clubs looking for the world's best young talent

A newly translated novel portrays Europe as a dilapidated hotel that’s wallowing in nostalgia

Once colonised and abandoned, Ireland's capital is buzzy and booming. But whether it is truly European remains unresolved

Sophie Marceau captivated one schoolboy so much he became a Francophile film critic. But what would it be like when they spoke, 40 years later?

A new edition of the closest we got to a David Bowie autobiography lifts a little of the on-stage mask

A pause on the telephone causes our columnist to ruminate on a meltdown in a relatively faraway country

Gear up for five European cycling epics

It is the only East Germanic language we have records of – and we only have those because of an accident of history

A new Spanish Netflix series asks what privacy in the modern age looks like, especially when all too often the little we have gets betrayed

This new take on a Greek tragedy is slow, pretentious and mind-numbingly boring

Hollywood star Amy Adams is the draw in this revival and she's content just to get on with some proper acting for a change

A self-confessed “unleashed exhibitionist, chasing headlines”, Collin Dufresne lived the life but on her terms

’Nduja has become highly uncool in many upscale restaurants, but used well it delivers big flavours and layers

Ukraine's captain, Andriy Yarmolenko, epitomises his team's cause but a play-off against Wales had a sting in the tale

Spine-tingling stories of our relationship with the most perfect format of them all.. the book

The Scottish outpost is studded with 1,400 stone shelters. But like the origins of the people who built them, their true purpose is unclear

For her first film in English, director Mia Hansen-Løve follows in her hero Ingmar Bergman’s footsteps to a remote Baltic isle

Quartiers nord is Marseille rapper Alonzo's most affectionate tribute to his hometown yet

Over the past decade Lionel Shriver has made a name for herself as a one-woman corrective to what she perceives as an excessively “woke” culture in this country

English has a lot of words taken from French.. and some that we have ‘borrowed’ twice

Fifty years ago, with a couple of vans, children and dogs in tow, Paul McCartney set off to Europe with a new band to realise a dream

For a Gen-Zer, Nick Hornby's marital vignettes are reminiscent of late-night and wine-filled debates with family members

The big numbers in this adaptation are all too familiar but they are listlessly performed and all the emphasis is on Peter Andre’s cameo turn

Bartlett Sher’s production is totally unnecessary and maybe a form of sacrilege

Could understanding contemporary Russian literature have given the west an insight into Putin’s intentions?

A new book, Madwoman, is a poignant tribute to America’s first female investigative journalist. Author Louisa Treger explains why her legacy is crucial now more than ever

Jeton Neziraj’s new play explores the lesser-known side of Nobel Prize-winning author Peter Handke

How an attempt at upstream cultural change on the banks of New York City's East River failed spectacularly

The early leader of the Dadaist movement blurred the boundaries of style and genre, writing poetry as good as his art, making sculptures as good as his collages

Why do some British broadcasters appear to suffer from a linguistic inferiority complex about natural English grammar?

This is a comforting, light dish, perfect for batch cooking and bringing into the office for lunch