Arts and Culture

New BBC series Ridley Road shines an uncomfortable light on the UK’s fascist revival, which took place less than 20 years after the end of the war.

As Italy and the literary world marks 700 years since the death of Dante Alighieri, portraits by his namesake, Dante Gabriel Rossetti, resound with the writer’s influence on the painter’s art.

Two writers with strikingly different reputations, whose long-lost work has recently been unearthed.

The production adopts an ambitious task of trying to get the audience to feel for two German-American teenagers who fall in love in a Nazi summer camp, and falls short

This play presents another example of a risk averse post-pandemic West End and it should do better than that

Three decades ago, dulcet tones from Estonia signalled the country's newfound freedom, writes SOPHIA DEBOICK

PETER BARRON on a night spent at a monastery, where he met one of Spain’s most revered figures

On his centenary, Germany’s best-known post-war artist remains as influential – and contentious – as ever.

The country has a reputation for being remote and reclusive, yet is home to a remarkably multilingual society, as well as one of language's greatest mysteries, writes PETER TRUDGILL

Five years before the Festival of Britain came another international exhibition showcasing post-war UK innovation. Seventy five years on, it is a sombre reminder of some of the qualities which – despite much voguish rhetoric – the country has lost, writes RICHARD HOLLEDGE

When the music arrived, it addressed a world, not only a country, in turmoil, writes SOPHIA DEBOICK.

By and large, classic films should not be rehashed as stage productions, writes TIM WALKER. But, this musical makes an exception.

Having stayed afloat during the pandemic, the books industry now faces two major threats, including a Brexit-related change which risks the livelihoods of many writers, says CHARLIE CONNELLY

The show has a glittering cast, dripping in talent. But, this all comes together to amount to nothing, writes MEGAN NOLAN

As The Many Saints Of Newark revisits the world of The Sopranos, RICHARD LUCK remembers the day the screen’s favourite mobster prematurely cut to black…

From France comes a giant leap in tales about life on housing estates.

PETER TRUDGILL on the many chapters of Yiddish

While the show has its successes and has the power to save the West End, it leaves audiences cold, writes TIM WALKER

The UK arrival of a European broadcasting and filmmaking powerhouse should be welcomed with open arms

The Isle of Wight Festival is the foundation of British festival music. But in 1970, infamous events took place on 'Devastation Hill'

The superstar novelist has had some very searching write-ups over her wary approach to her own fame. CHARLIE CONNELLY explains why authors often make such uncomfortable celebrities

An exhibition of ten British African artists in Cambridge challenges and inspires, writes RICHARD HOLLEDGE

Not if the reformed, revived, stripped-down The Specials have anything to say about it.

Not all languages use the same terms to describe skin colour, writes PETER TRUDGILL.

Food writer JOSH BARRIE brings readers a recipe from Irish chef Richard Corrigan, known for his controversial humour but, more importantly, his soda bread

The composer prime minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis called the "universal Greek" died last week. Few have had the relationship with revolution that Theodorakis did, writes SOPHIA DEBOICK

One writer not only pioneered satire, but also the literary feud, writes CHARLIE CONNELLY

The celebrated explorer and historian Christoph Baumer’s History of the Caucasus: Volume 1: At the Crossroads of Empires is released at a moment of crisis for the region, as tensions rise on the Armenian-Azerbaijani border. Here, he sets the scene for the current problems while sharing images from his sweeping, beautifully illustrated new book.