Eurofile

Germans used to be against air conditioning. Not any more

Not even the president’s ego and Fifa’s greed have managed to stop the joy of this World Cup

Typing on a keyboard is fast and convenient, but it puts your brain in neutral. Scientists have found that writing by hand can have very different effects

He appeared in some of the biggest TV and movies of our time, but being a Kiwi, he became a quiet kind of megastar

Our greatest film writer’s new book says that Hollywood has made us all complicit in populism’s rise and intellectualism’s fall

I thought supporting both teams would be a win-win. It stopped feeling like one shortly after kick-off

Over 2,500 of Italy’s cinemas have closed since the pandemic. But a group of film enthusiasts has a plan to turn things around

Leona Carrington painted Villa Pilar after receiving shock therapy – then gave it to her doctor

There are many ways in which women are ‘kept’, sometimes by men, sometimes by members of their own family. But that has never worked for me.

The photographer documented a city’s outsiders with wit and tenderness

Tari Lang’s memoir discusses growing up under Indonesia's military dictatorship while much of society carried on as normal

The Hayward Gallery’s new exhibition showcases artworks so black that they seem to undermine the very rules by which we perceive the world

How a small Manhattan exhibition in 1938 helped launch one of the most celebrated artists of the modern age

Some words have two unconnected meanings – others have simply drifted apart

The chancellor decided that too many Germans were skiving, so he tried to change the rules. But it didn’t work

Homer’s epic speaks powerfully to any age troubled by anxiety that the notion of home, reciprocity and social stability is in jeopardy

I used to pray for days of 30-degree temperatures. But this year, something has shifted

Billed as a sex comedy, it’s subtle, ambiguous and moving

It has always happened. But why? And how far can it go before things start to turn unhealthy?

I hadn't downloaded any films or podcasts for my journey, but in the end it turned out I didn’t need any. All I needed was the window

Banned in Germany and made available on X, Citizen Vigilante isn’t an aberration; it’s the logical endpoint of Hollywood’s careless obsession with a violent, racist myth

Women are getting the needle with the president – but history shows many examples of the use of knitting as a tool for protest

I bought a huge cross of St George for the 1990 World Cup and I recently got it out again. But I’m having second thoughts about actually flying it

Little has made me proud to be British in recent years – except this

The vice president has gone from hillbilly to hypocrite, and Communion exposes the gulf between belief and behaviour

Visiting JR’s La Caverne du Pont Neuf, the installation a storm couldn’t stop

Patrick Freyne’s creations The Heathens star in a book that’s hilarious and heart-wrenching

With guns, grenades, flamethrowers and sabotage training, the Home Guard were no laughing matter