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Ian Thomson
The great Italian escape
Wed 17 Dec 2025
The best food books of 2025
Sun 14 Dec 2025
The Sunday Poem: Underhill by Lavinia Greenlaw
Sun 14 Dec 2025
Chris Power
Paperback of the week: Your Name Here by Helen DeWitt
Sat 13 Dec 2025
Richard Ovenden
In defence of pedantry
Sat 13 Dec 2025
Paula Byrne
What to read to understand Jane Austen
Thu 11 Dec 2025
Tom Gatti
What to read this week, from Elizabeth Kolbert to Tom Paulin
Thu 11 Dec 2025
Kathleen Jamie
Elizabeth Kolbert’s alarm call
Thu 11 Dec 2025
Lisa O’Kelly
James Fox: ‘The crafts are always revived in times of crisis’
Thu 11 Dec 2025
Sean O’Hagan
Tom Paulin’s exile state of mind
Wed 10 Dec 2025
Matthew Bishop
Lessons of the 1929 Wall Street crash
Tue 9 Dec 2025
Simon Armitage
The Sunday Poem: The Overload by Simon Armitage
Sun 7 Dec 2025
Tom Gatti
Introducing The Observer’s Sunday poem
Sun 7 Dec 2025
Luke Turner
Lament for a lost London
Sat 6 Dec 2025
John Niven
In my game, crime pays. Do I have it in me?
Fri 5 Dec 2025
Lucy Popescu
What it means to be German
Fri 5 Dec 2025
Christopher Frayling
What to read to understand vampires
Fri 5 Dec 2025
Ellen Peirson-Hagger
New ‘romantasy’ novels sell fantasies of sexual violence
Fri 5 Dec 2025
Eimear McBride
Return to the Jon Fosse universe
Thu 4 Dec 2025
Chris Power
The Future Loves You by Ariel Zeleznikow-Johnston
Thu 4 Dec 2025
Jonathan Bate
The infernal world of Christopher Marlowe
Thu 4 Dec 2025
Tom Gatti
What to read this week, from Christopher Marlowe to Joe Sacco
Thu 4 Dec 2025
Killian Fox
Joe Sacco: ‘I can’t turn away from what’s going on in Gaza’
Wed 3 Dec 2025
Sir Richard Lambert
The man behind Palantir’s military-industrial empire
Tue 2 Dec 2025
Martin Scorsese
‘I grew up close to violence. It’s a part of being human’
Mon 1 Dec 2025
Chris Power
Paperback of the week: We Live Here Now by CD Rose
Fri 28 Nov 2025
The Observer
The best children’s books of 2025
Thu 27 Nov 2025
Tom Gatti
What to read this week: a Christmas books special
Thu 27 Nov 2025
Ellen Peirson-Hagger
Jenny Erpenbeck: ‘I’ve seen a whole system collapse and fade away’
Thu 27 Nov 2025
Julian Barnes
A manifesto for the imagination
Thu 27 Nov 2025
Writers choose their 2025 favourites
Thu 27 Nov 2025
The Observer
The Observer’s books of the year 2025
Thu 27 Nov 2025
Donna Ferguson
Nell Gwyn’s naughty pop-up book pops up at auction
Wed 26 Nov 2025
Alice Hunt
The double life of George Downing
Sun 23 Nov 2025
Val McDermid
What to read to understand winter
Sun 23 Nov 2025
Imogen Carter
Picture books of the month: where the wild things are
Sat 22 Nov 2025
Howard Jacobson
Milan Kundera in the age of censure
Fri 21 Nov 2025
Chris Power
Paperback of the week: On the Calculation of Volume III by Solvej Balle
Thu 20 Nov 2025
Kitty Empire
Is Taylor Swift a great poet?
Thu 20 Nov 2025
Alex Clark
Jeanette Winterson’s story factory
Wed 19 Nov 2025
Tom Gatti
What to read this week, from Jeanette Winterson to Taylor Swift
Wed 19 Nov 2025
Jude Rogers
TS Eliot’s 20th-century nightmare
Tue 18 Nov 2025
Writers, directors, foodies and friends pay tribute to Rachel Cooke
Sun 16 Nov 2025
Jade Cuttle
Digging for the dead
Sun 16 Nov 2025
Anthony Cummins
Confessions of a reluctant bookseller
Sun 16 Nov 2025
Rachel Cooke – in her words: a few highlights from 25 years of writing
Sun 16 Nov 2025
Simon Winchester
What to read to understand the weather
Sun 16 Nov 2025
Helen Garner
The crime writers addicted to the mushroom murders
Sat 15 Nov 2025
Rowan Moore
The houses that England built
Sat 15 Nov 2025
Chris Power
Paperback of the week: Blinding by Mircea Cărtărescu
Sat 15 Nov 2025
Anthony Cummins
Emmanuel Carrère on 10 years since the Paris attacks
Thu 13 Nov 2025
Marina Wheeler
Lady Hale’s rescue plan for the legal system
Thu 13 Nov 2025
Anthony Cummins
David Szalay: ‘If you want to be a proper writer, you have to deal with the sordid’
Wed 12 Nov 2025
Penelope Lively
Penelope Lively on the best children’s books of all time
Tue 11 Nov 2025
Penelope Lively
Why children’s books matter
Tue 11 Nov 2025
Anthony Cummins
Why David Szalay’s Flesh won the Booker prize
Mon 10 Nov 2025
Erica Wagner
Secrets of a Booker prize judge
Mon 10 Nov 2025
Richard Ovenden
How to survive an information crisis
Mon 10 Nov 2025
Hannah Rose Woods
Ferdinand Mount’s sentimental revolutions
Mon 10 Nov 2025
Ann Morgan
What to read to understand quests
Sun 9 Nov 2025
Fiona Noble
Young adult fiction of the month: spellbinding stories
Sat 8 Nov 2025
Chris Power
Paperback of the week: Dog Days by Emily LaBarge
Sat 8 Nov 2025
Andrew Anthony
The murderer who writes the truth of crime from a prison cell
Fri 7 Nov 2025
Lynn Barber
The redemption of Anthony Hopkins
Thu 6 Nov 2025
Olivia Ovenden
The last days of Pasolini
Thu 6 Nov 2025
Vanessa Thorpe
Helen Garner: ‘Writers need to have their arse kicked around the block’
Wed 5 Nov 2025
Philippe Sands
Inside the mind of Serbia’s ‘Madam War Criminal’
Wed 5 Nov 2025
Alex Preston
Pussy Riot’s guide to Putin’s Russia
Tue 4 Nov 2025
Erica Wagner
The book of Margaret Atwood
Sun 2 Nov 2025
Patti Smith
Patti Smith on the night that changed her life
Sun 2 Nov 2025
Andrew Anthony
Jonathan C Slaght: ‘I don’t like bears. They’re vindictive’
Sat 1 Nov 2025
Matthew Cobb
Francis Crick: The science genius with poetry in his DNA
Sat 1 Nov 2025
Megan Nolan
Zadie Smith and Anne Enright: the art of paying attention
Fri 31 Oct 2025
Andrew O’Hagan
What to read to understand friendship
Thu 30 Oct 2025
Anthony Cummins
Salman Rushdie’s The Eleventh Hour: For once, words fail him
Thu 30 Oct 2025
Chris Power
Paperback of the week: Driver by Mattia Filice
Thu 30 Oct 2025
Olivia Ovenden
Why women keep secrets
Wed 29 Oct 2025
Rowan Williams
Philip Pullman’s The Rose Field: a manifesto for how to be human
Mon 27 Oct 2025
Olivia Ovenden
Mariana Enríquez: ‘The fear of the old female body is out of control’
Sun 26 Oct 2025
