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We’ll need mechanisms in place to keep us sane and what better mechanism is there to achieve that than getting stuck in to a really good book?

A defunct commodities exchange in Paris, owned by a billionaire, is the setting for an exhibition of a radical art movement that used lowly materials to react against consumerism

Colourful stories abound of how local vintners deceived and humiliated German troops in occupied France. But the truth is rather more complex

A Kyiv gallery has defied Russian missile attacks to stage a visceral but tender art competition for artists under 35

The city’s working class banlieues have produced superstars like Kylian Mbappé and Thierry Henry. Could they now take Paris Saint Germain to the next level?

This supposedly heart-warming yuletide classic is the story of a NIMBY preparing to impose a radical moral agenda on his selfish neighbours

A honeymoon on the continent changed everything for American artist Helen Frankenthaler, whose work is being celebrated in Florence and Bilbao this year

Once a forgotten figure, athlete turned activist Werner Seelenbinder is finally getting the credit he is due

The Christmas tree in the Umbrian town of Gubbio in central Italy is so big, you can even switch the lights on from space

The Little Foxes confirms Anne-Marie Duff as a true great

The verb ‘to ask’ may have already been transposed in the past, but it took a lot longer for it to be used as a noun

The almost unbelievable artistic riches of renaissance Florence form the basis of an unmissable exhibition

The story of a family’s French holiday interrupted by the apocalypse tops our round-up of the best books of 2024

It was a big year for centrist dads and reality revivals – but Joe Rogan continued to dominate the podcast world

Much has been said about the increasing polarisation of people in the social media age. We need to remember that no man is an island

We are, slowly, finding our footing when it comes to what we put on our plate

In recent years Panettone, Italy’s iconic fluffy traditional Christmas cake, has seen many twists on its traditional flavour

There were huge advantages to being outside the Soviet Union, but the filmmaker's love of Russia bound him to home

A string of new music this year provided beautiful and uplifting sounds, but with a dark undercurrent

From deeply unsettling drama to a superior superhero spin-off, here are the shows to stream over Christmas

Jacques Audiard’s brilliant Emilia Pérez is a musical like no other, by turns funny, tragic and thrilling

If I close my eyes in rainy Britain, I'm back in my local café in Toulouse

The Bibi Files paints a devastating picture of the Israeli prime minister and his family

Sigourney Weaver shines in her west end debut in Jamie Lloyd’s powerful new production of Shakespeare’s final solo-authored play

Patrick Marber’s unremarkable revival delivers polite laughs only

For a woman who never desired the limelight, Silvana Mangano achieved cinematic immortality almost in spite of herself

How British music turned away from America and learned to love the continent

Inspired by Goya, the Portuguese artist’s versions of Humpty Dumpty and Three Blind Mice are very much not for children

A beautiful memoir about the ugly side of Europe tops our round-up of 2024’s best non-fiction

An astounding, eccentric documentary uncovers a murky assassination plot involving Belgium, the CIA and Louis Armstrong