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The New Review

Culture, reviews and features from the Observer

  • Gboyega Odubanjo - poet

    Adam by Gboyega Odubanjo review – in memory of the missing

  • Charlotte Mendelson's garden. Charlotte in her roof garden with blossom behind

    Book of the day
    Wife by Charlotte Mendelson review – bravura portrait of a marriage in meltdown

  • James Baldwin in Istanbul, 1969.

    No Name in the Street; Going to Meet the Man by James Baldwin – review

  • A young inhabitant of El Eco in The Echo.

    The Echo review – insightful study of an isolated community

  • TOPSHOT-ASIAD-2022-2023-HANGZHOU-OPENING<br>TOPSHOT - Syria's President Bashar al-Assad (C) and his wife Asma al-Assad (L) attend the opening ceremony of the 2022 Asian Games at the Hangzhou Olympic Sports Centre Stadium in Hangzhou in China's eastern Zhejiang province on September 23, 2023. (Photo by Philip FONG / AFP) (Photo by PHILIP FONG/AFP via Getty Images)

    All the Worst Humans: How I Made News for Dictators, Tycoons and Politicians by Phil Elwood review – a spin doctor for despots

  • The Mary Wallopers photographed this month in Dundalk, Ireland by Bríd O’Donovan for the Observer New Review. L-r: Ken Mooney, Charles Hendy, Andrew Hendy, Róisín Barrett, Seán McKenna, Finnian O’Connor.

    ‘People of all ages get very emotional at our gigs’: how ‘trad punk’ folk band the Mary Wallopers became a live sensation

  • Barnum review – dazzling all-singing, all-juggling musical

  • Your Lie in April review – new musical of the manga romance somehow works

  • Who’s on the 2024 RA Dorfman prize shortlist? A lingerie factory turned weekend home, Ukrainian volunteer roofers – and more

  • They Dream in Gold by Mai Sennaar review – love and identity on the 1960s music scene

  • I Saw the TV Glow review – powerfully unnerving teen misfit drama

  • The week in theatre: Hello, Dolly!; The Hot Wing King; Fangirls – review

  • CDs sales are growing. How I wish I hadn’t given my beloved collection away

  • The end is nigh. For insects, bats, protest, the planet…

    Stewart Lee
  • Venice Dance Biennale: Alan Lucien Øyen: Still Life; Sankofa Danzafro: Behind the South: Dances for Manuel – review

  • Observer New Review Q&A
    Paapa Essiedu: ‘Is this part harder than Hamlet? Yeah, it’s different gravy, mate’

  • Observer TV reviews
    The week in TV: Art Matters; Surviving the Post Office; The Decameron; Time Bandits – review

  • In brief: Banal Nightmare; Feeding the Monster; Burning Angel and Other Stories – review

  • Peter Kennard: Archive of Dissent review – definitive protest images that go beyond words

  • Straight to your inbox: meet the journalists shaking up local UK news

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