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Rachel Cooke

August 2024

  • Jess Phillips Labour MP For Birmingham Yardley

    Let’s Be Honest by Jess Phillips review – manifesto for a better politics speaks plainly but falls flat

    The fourth book from the admirable Labour MP is part memoir, part rallying cry – but it feels a bit rushed and too familiar

July 2024

  • Joshi Herrmann of Mill Media for Observer Review feature

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

  • Tomatos background<br>full image with tomatoes fresh and healty food

    Rachel Cooke on food
    This changeable weather is playing havoc with my appetite, so I’m eating summer-winter food

    Rachel Cooke
  • moor market stall sheffield

    Notebook
    In Sheffield’s new top foodie destination, something gnaws at me and it isn’t hunger

    Rachel Cooke
  • The Wendy Award

    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

  • Spring in Troutbeck Valley with the Kentmere Fells beyond, in the scenic Lake District farm

    Notebook
    Following in the footsteps of David Nicholls’ characters turned out to be good for our soles

    Rachel Cooke
  • A girl plays on the beach at Weymouth in 1998, as shot by Martin Parr.

    The Great British Seaside
    Punch and Judy, penny slots and Pontins: why the great British seaside continues to hold our imagination

  • Detail from George Sand: True Genius, True Woman.

    Graphic novel of the month
    George Sand: True Genius, True Woman review – a pleasure and an education

  • Griffin Dunne with his best friend, the late Carrie Fisher.

    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

  • A man holding a papier-mache body, with photographers and one of the lions of Nelson's column in the background

    ‘Freedom was around the corner’: how UK activists helped the exiled ANC to defeat apartheid

  • Wash-out? What wash-out?! Near constant torrential rain and storms are not enough to stop Britain's garden lovers from enjoying the 2024 RHS Chelsea Flower Show.

    Notebook
    Hardy as old hostas, Chelsea flower show fans lapse into a crazed kind of Britishness

    Rachel Cooke
  • Detail from So Long Sad Love by Mirion Malle.

    Graphic novel of the month
    So Long Sad Love by Mirion Malle review – an irresistible celebration of female courage

  • Protesters gather in the Capitol Hill Autonomous Zone in Seattle, Washington, June 2020

    Morning After the Revolution by Nellie Bowles review – the perils of failing to toe the party line

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