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Rachel Cooke

October 2024

  • World Without End - final PDF Page 156

    Graphic novel of the month
    World Without End by Jean-Marc Jancovici and Christophe Blain review – Doomsday in minute detail

    A word-of-mouth sensation in France, this clever, exhaustive breakdown of our cost to the planet is free of dogma and all the better for it
  • Rupert Everett

    Book of the day
    The American No by Rupert Everett review – truthful, witty, wise and stoical

    Ideas pitched by the actor down the years that never got the green light are brilliantly recast here as wry short stories… and a script
  • Barbara Kingsolver photographed at her home in Virginia by Ian Curcio for the Observer New Review, August 2024.

    ‘I’ve dealt with anti-hillbilly bigotry all my life’: Barbara Kingsolver on JD Vance, the real Appalachia and why Demon Copperhead was such a hit

    As the Pulitzer-winning author’s little-known first book is published in the UK, she discusses the roots of division in the US, her wild childhood, and putting the story straight about where she’s from

September 2024

  • J Smith-Cameron photographed for the Observer New Review in London

    Succession star J Smith-Cameron: ‘There’s a bewildered vulnerability to middle age that is ripe to be explored’

  • People view, (left-right) Sunflowers,1888, La Berceuse (The Lullaby), 1889 and Sunflowers, 1889 on display during the preview for the National Gallery's Van Gogh: Poets and Lovers exhibition at the National Gallery, London.

    Van Gogh: Poets and Lovers review – eye-aching, heartbreaking and unmissable

  • Susan Sontag at a book fair in Frankfurt in 2003.

    Notebook
    Is the fizz up to Edith Wharton’s standards? The joys of launching a book

    Rachel Cooke
  • Habitat’s new chicken brick in black earthenware.

    Rachel Cooke on food
    The Habitat chicken brick is back – but what’s the best way to roast a bird?

    Rachel Cooke

  • Graphic novel of the month
    Final Cut by Charles Burns review – a book to be read and reread

  • The Shape of Things: Still Life in Britain review – compelling proof that objects do talk…

August 2024

  • Two pages depicting the fire scene from the Lord of the Flies graphic novel.

    Autumn fiction special 2024
    Lord of the Flies at 70: how a classic was reimagined as a graphic novel

  • Robert Lindsay sitting in a garden chair, holding his sunglasses and looking thoughtful

    Actor Robert Lindsay on his role in Sherwood and growing up in a mining town: ‘There were terrible confrontations between fathers and sons’

  • A young WH Auden on a dock at Cherry Grove on Fire Island, New York.

    Observer book of the week
    The Island: WH Auden and the Last of Englishness review – a deep dive into the poet’s early years

  • Ida illustration

    Rachel Cooke on food
    What makes a neighbourhood restaurant great? Perfection – but in a slightly wonky way

    Rachel Cooke

  • Notebook
    Are studies of great authors doomed as fewer students take English literature at university?

    Rachel Cooke

  • Graphic novel of the month
    Elena: A Hand Made Life by Miriam Gold review – a beautifully crafted memoir of a beloved grandmother

  • Beautiful, bruising and complex: what I’ve learned about female friendship

  • Observer book of the week
    The Art of Power by Nancy Pelosi review – politics with principles

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

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
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