This Sunday in the New Review
☀️SUMMER READING📚
Elizabeth Strout, Caleb Azumah Nelson, Roddy Doyle, Tessa Hadley and other authors choose their essential summer holiday reads. Cover design by Julia Allum @julia_allum@observerdesign
Also this week…
🔸Former Tory minister Anna Soubry opens up about her ex-colleagues, her infamous Nigel Farage impression and why she’ll do whatever it takes to ensure Starmer is PM. Interview by Andrew Anthony.
🔸The broadcaster and DJ Jamz Supernova on hosting Glastonbury for BBC 6 Music, overcoming her fear of swimming, and running around with Katy B as a teen.
🔸Writer Johny Pitts on how the 1980s musical Starlight Express, in which his dad performed, has shaped his life.
Plus lots more including Robin Mckie on the 3.2 million-year-old hominin Lucy, Wendy Ide on Yorgos Lanthimos’s Kinds of Kindness, Kitty Empire on The Breeders live in London and Laura Cumming on Francis Alÿs at the Barbican.
This Sunday in the New Review:
On the cover ✨ ‘People like it because it’s the messy truth’: lifelong friends Lily Allen and Miquita Oliver talk to Miranda Sawyer about their hit BBC Sounds podcast, Miss Me?
📸 @mrperou
Also in Sunday’s issue:
🔸Musician John Cale interviewed by Sean O’Hagan
🔸Q&A with Stephen Fry by Jude Rogers
🔸Guy Lodge on the best films about elections to stream
🔸Why caring for others might be the best self care, by David Robson
+ lots more including our critics on the week’s best arts and books
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This Sunday in the New Review
Is the UK ready for Slave Play?
Jeremy O Harris’s provocative play electrified Broadway. As it comes to London , we speak to the writer and his new stars, Kit Harington and Olivia Washington.
On the cover: Jeremy O Harris (centre) with Kit Harington and Olivia Washington, photographed during rehearsals in London for the New Review by Suki Dhanda. @sukidhanda
Also this Sunday…
🔸The Radio 4 Today presenter Mishal Husain talks to Rachel Cooke about her new memoir
🔸Actor Lia Williams on starring in a new play about sexual harassment, her TV portrayal of the Post Office’s Paula Vennels and the playwright closest to her heart
🔸Geoff Dyer on the grace and technique of Dutch hurdler Femke Bol, set to be a star of the Paris Olympics
🔸The Ukrainian writer Oleksandr Mykhed talks to Charlotte Higgins about losing friends, channelling his rage, and why Russian culture should be boycotted
🔸Musician Billy Corgan of the Smashing Pumpkins chooses his cultural highlights
Plus lots more including the photography of Bertien van Manen, Kitty Empire on Liam Gallagher live in Cardiff, Laura Cumming on US photographer Nan Goldin at the Welsh Chapel, Rowan Moore on this year’s Serpentine Pavillion and Dorian Lynskey on the book Hip-Hop is History by Questlove.
@jeremyoharris#slaveplay
Last Sunday’s cover and online now (link in bio)… our Music Special of the New Review featuring
🔸Charli XCX on being herself, female friendship and her new album, Brat
🔸My favourite instrument by musicians Shabaka, Corinne Bailey Rae and Nilüfer Yanya
🔸The Blondie co-founder Chris Stein talks to Tim Lewis about 50 years of rock ‘n’ roll
🔸Taylor Swift - Kitty Empire on the Swift Lift phenomenon as the Eras tour arrives in the UK
On the cover: Charli CCX photographed by Nadine Fraczkowski.
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This Sunday in the New Review
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. By Rachel Cooke.
On the cover: Peter Hain and his mother Adelaine march outside South Africa House in London in the late eighties.
Also this week…
🔸Artist Alvaro Barrington on his Tate Britain commission.
🔸 Rowan Moore on councils selling off Britain’s historic buildings.
🔸Anjana Vasan chooses her cultural highlights.
🔸 Is racism in medicine putting Black people’s lives at risk?
+ our critics on the week in the arts
This Sunday in the New Review:
Musician Richard Hawley takes our writer Tim Lewis on a tour of his Sheffield and discusses his enduring love for his hometown, his main hope for Keir Starmer - and his new album In This City They Call You Love.
📷 Portrait for the New Review by Gary Calton
Also this Sunday:
🔸Artist Judy Chicago interviewed by Rachel Cooke ahead of her Serpentine show
🔸Tim Adams goes to Bristol CrimeFest
🔸Q&A with Boiling Point actor Vinette Robinson by Michael Hogan
🔸Julian Baggini on the trouble with the Zoe nutrition app
🔸Xan Brooks reports from the first week of Cannes film festival
+ our critics on the week in arts & books
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Tomorrow in the New Review
Rose Boyt, daughter of the artist Lucian Freud, talks to Tim Adams about confronting her father’s gaze in her candid new memoir, Naked Portrait.
Also this Sunday…
🔸Things Fell Apart, Jon Ronson’s audio series exploring conspiracy theories and the culture wars, topped the podcast charts in January. He explains to Andrew Anthony why journalistic values such as evidence and fairness are needed now more than ever.
🔸The novelist Daisy Lafarge on living with the hypermobility disorder Ehlers-Danlos syndrome.
🔸Photographer Ryan McGinley’s timeless depictions of American youth culture. By Killian Fox.
🔸The Irish writer Paul Lynch on winning the Booker prize shortly after a cancer diagnosis, his tragic worldview, and spending too much time in Lidl.
🔸How prepared are we for human bird flu? David Cox reports.
Plus our critics on the week’s arts highlights including Kitty Empire on Olivia Rodrigo live in Glasgow, Laura Cumming on Artemisia Gentileschi in Birmingham, an interview with Deborah Levy, thriller books of the month and lots more.
On the cover: Detail from a photograph by Harry Diamond of Rose Boyt with her father Lucian Freud in 1974.
This Sunday in the New Review
GENTLEMAN JOSH
The British actor Josh O’Connor on his rise to reluctant movie stardom. Interview by Tim Lewis. Portrait for the New Review by Perou.
Also this Sunday…
🔸An essay by Geoff Dyer on the art of perfection. Is it something we should seek?
🔸Sean O’Hagan talks to photographer Jack Lueders-Booth about his Polaroids of female US prisoners.
🔸The actor Cara Delevingne on catching the theatre bug playing Sally Bowles in Cabaret and being a football fan. By Michael Hogan.
🔸Author Andrew O’Hagan chooses his cultural highlights.
🔸Which came first, the chicken or the egg? Science writer Jules Howard addresses an age-old paradox.
Plus lots more including Wendy Ide on her film of the week, Love Lies Bleeding, Kitty Empire on new albums by Dua Lipa and Kamasi Washington, Rachel Cooke on Michelangelo: The Last Decades exhibition at the British Museum, Peter Conrad on the new book Francis Bacon: A Self-Portrait in Words by Michael Peppiat and an interview with Yellowface author Rebecca F Kuang.
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Today in the Observer New Review
🎬🥊⚽️ Our film critic Guy Lodge chooses the 20 best sports movies. 🏁🏃♀️🎾
Also in today’s issue…
🔸Tim Adams talks to Billy Bragg about why he’s fighting for trans rights, his late-night tweeting habit, and his forthcoming tour -with his son.
🔸Sean O’Hagan on the photographer Diana Matar’s haunting new series, documenting sites where US police have killed civilians.
Plus our critics on all the best in art, architecture, music, film, TV, books and more.
Cover design by Pip Lay / @observerdesign
This Sunday in the New Review
FROM CALIFORNIA TO
CALDERDALE
What has made the UK a magnet for global film and TV production - and can it last? Report by Amelia Tait.
Also this week…
🔸Prof Corinne Fowler, vilified by some for revealing links between National Trust properties and enslavement, takes a Lake District walk with Tim Adams
🔸Lauren Mayberry of the band Chvrches talks to Kate Mossman about striking out on her own
🔸Author Iain Sinclair in his new book about photographer John Deakin and the postwar Soho arts scene, and being at ease in his 80s
🔸Irish musician CMAT chooses her cultural highlights
Plus lots more including Laura Cumming reports from the Venice Biennale, Kitty Empire on Taylor Swift’s new album, Rachel Cooke reviews Knife by Salman Rushdie and Andrew Rawnsley on Ten Years To Save The West by Liz Truss.
Cover by @observerdesign
