8+ hour, 38+ min ago  (224+ words) Arcola theatre, London Writer Ken Ludwig's heartfelt and funny romcom draws the audience into every step of Jack and Louise's developing affection, their longing deepened by physical separation It goes from stiff opening courtship to a chalk-and-cheese meeting of minds…...

3+ day, 14+ hour ago  (1194+ words) The Guardian You Are the F'hrer's Unrequited Love by Jean-No'l Orengo review " Hitler, Speer and beyond This unconventional exploration of Albert Speer's duplicity during his Nazi years and into his rehabilitation is a masterful forewarning of the post-truth era In…...

4+ day, 16+ hour ago  (209+ words) We are raiding the Guardian long read archives to bring you some classic pieces from years past, with new introductions from the authors. This week, from 2020: The US believed the American way of life was humankind's ultimate destiny. But unrestrained…...

1+ week, 15+ hour ago  (263+ words) In Les Rayons et les Ombres, Jean Dujardin plays a real-life press baron partying during the horrors of the second world war. Director Xavier Giannoli discusses bringing this still sensitive topic to light Her wilful blindness collapses as the Jewish…...

2+ week, 2+ day ago  (1010+ words) Air superiority is supposed to deliver a quick triumph. But history has shown that promise to be written on the wind To explore the roots of Donald Trump's Iran military strategy and the pugilistic rhetoric of his defense secretary, Pete…...

2+ week, 3+ day ago  (240+ words) During the second world war, farmers received forecasts in code and railway announcers were banned from blaming delays on fog or snow Data security is not just a modern issue. The BBC stopped its daily weather forecasts as soon as…...

2+ week, 5+ day ago  (385+ words) In today's newsletter: Our diplomatic editor on how global instability feeds into conflict in so many parts of the world, and whether the threshold for a major global war has been met Good morning. The world is at war. From…...

3+ week, 3+ day ago  (349+ words) US president was meeting with Japanese PM when he said: "Who knows better about surprise than Japan?" It would be funny if it wasn"t so Trumpy. Hosting the Japanese prime minister, Sanae Takaichi, in the Oval Office on Thursday,…...

1+ mon, 2+ week ago  (742+ words) The director and ex-Japanese Red Army militant discusses his new film Escape, about the anarchist fugitive Satoshi Kirishima, the frustrations of radical film-making and progressive politics Last month, on the same day that Revolution+1 " a fictionalised account of the life…...

2+ mon, 1+ day ago  (833+ words) An immersive account of how the inhabitants of a liberal city " including the author's father " survived fascism In December 1941, the Nazi authorities received a letter from a'soldier complaining that, on his recent leave in Berlin, he had been thoroughly disgusted…...