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Rachel Cooke on food
This changeable weather is playing havoc with my appetite, so I’m eating summer-winter food
Rachel Cooke
Notebook
In Sheffield’s new top foodie destination, something gnaws at me and it isn’t hunger
Rachel Cooke
Graphic novel of the month
The Wendy Award by Walter Scott review – the voice of a bewildered generation
Magazine guru Lindsay Nicholson’s life of turmoil: ‘I could see this world I’d created was crumbling’
Farewell, with regret … Kirsty Wark, Newsnight’s smiling assassin in stripes
Rachel Cooke
June 2024
Notebook
Following in the footsteps of David Nicholls’ characters turned out to be good for our soles
Rachel Cooke
The Great British Seaside
Punch and Judy, penny slots and Pontins: why the great British seaside continues to hold our imagination
Graphic novel of the month
George Sand: True Genius, True Woman review – a pleasure and an education
Observer book of the week
The Friday Afternoon Club by Griffin Dunne review – a Hollywood insider with an outsider’s eye
‘In South Africa, you hear of disappearance all the time’: one photographer’s search for his sister’s missing years
Rachel Cooke on food
Wake up and smell the yorkshires – Sunday lunch is back!
Rachel Cooke
‘They didn’t dwell on it – they felt so many had suffered more’: Mishal Husain on her family history and the partition of India
Observer New Review Q&A
Tate director Maria Balshaw: ‘I still come into work feeling terrified’
A century after his death, Kafka still sums up our surreal world
Rachel Cooke
May 2024
‘Freedom was around the corner’: how UK activists helped the exiled ANC to defeat apartheid
On the eve of a vital South African election, activists tell how, 30 years ago, London became the centre of the Anti-Apartheid Movement and a base for exiled African National Congress leaders
Notebook
Hardy as old hostas, Chelsea flower show fans lapse into a crazed kind of Britishness
Rachel Cooke
Prevailing through downpours with Pimm’s and panamas, the visitors haven’t changed even if the RHS event has
Graphic novel of the month
So Long Sad Love by Mirion Malle review – an irresistible celebration of female courage
Morning After the Revolution by Nellie Bowles review – the perils of failing to toe the party line
‘My time has come!’: feminist artist Judy Chicago on a tidal wave of recognition at 84
