The King’s Man: The best entry yet in the secret agent pastiche franchise

Push the barmy politics to one side and wallow in the imaginative absurdity

Greek Letter: Syriza needs to show it can run country effectively

Revolutionary government must bear some responsibility for nation’s precarious state

Treasure-laden ship’s discovery sparks three-way legal battle

‘San Jose’ wreck, with up to $17bn in cargo, claimed by Colombia, Spain and salvage firm

Rudyard Kipling’s first World War tragedy

The Nobel laureate and staunch imperialist was one of hundreds of thousands of British and Irish parents to lose a son to the war

Philip Hensher: ‘Don’t aspire to be an author. Just aspire to write a particular book’

‘I’ve read Proust four times and every time it felt like a major punctuation mark in my life’

Leonora Carrington: the mythical world of a rediscovered surrealist

Imma is showing a body of work by a contemporary of Frida Kahlo and Dali who has long been under-appreciated in a country that inspired much of her work: Ireland

Word for Word: telling stories beyond the printed page