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European culture: art, music, film, books and ideas.
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Robert Carlyle: ‘When we did The Full Monty strip, the reaction from the crowd was terrifying’
The actor on which star he’d devour first on a lifeboat, why he prefers pigeons to dogs and how Trainspotting put the Scottish acc
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The Things We Never Say by Elizabeth Strout audiobook review, brilliant portrait of an existential crisis
A teacher’s private anxieties are subtly combined with political events in this Booker-listed tale set in coastal Massachusetts Ar
Song & Dance album review, Jacques Forestier’s impressive debut has persuasive rhythmic poise
Marketing meltdown: why has Andrew Garfield’s new film suddenly added Robin Hood?
Yayoi Kusama obituary
‘She should have been queen of the world!’ Readers remember Dolly Parton
‘I fight pain and fear with art’: how Yayoi Kusama blazed a trail for neurodivergent artists
BBC to bring back Top Gear amid speculation about show’s next presenters
Resonance: A Plague Tale Legacy review, picture-postcard retelling of haunting Minoan myth
Festivalgoers brave heavy rain on wet first day
Yayoi Kusama’s psychedelic art was at its best when taken in high doses
Billy Strings: So Much for Goodbyes review, staggering, stirring songs of grief draw the blues out of bluegrass
Idiots review, throwback bro comedy is an entertaining summer seat-filler
Met Orchestra/Nézet-Séguin review, messy bonbons and a hero’s triumph in a classy all-Strauss lineup
A Slow Fire review, hope flickers in Simon Stephens’ postapocalyptic bunker drama
Share your tributes and memories of Tim Curry
In pictures: The dotty world of Japanese artist Yayoi Kusama
‘We’re at a crisis point’: Chappell Roan, Shirley Manson and Eli on playing Olivia Rodrigo’s female-only festival
Germany news: Merz courts 'frugals' to trim EU budget
