
Columnist
Rachel Cooke (1969-2025) was an award-winning journalist. A writer at the Observer since 2001, she was also the television critic of the New Statesman. Her essays have been broadcast on BBC Radio 3, including the series The Odd Woman and On Disappointment. In 2024, she curated Provocations, a series of events at the Freud Museum. She was the author of Her Brilliant Career: Ten Extraordinary Women of the Fifties and Kitchen Person, and the editor of The Virago Book of Friendship.

Rachel Cooke
Columnist
Rachel Cooke (1969-2025) was an award-winning journalist. A writer at the Observer since 2001, she was also the television critic of the New Statesman. Her essays have been broadcast on BBC Radio 3, including the series The Odd Woman and On Disappointment. In 2024, she curated Provocations, a series of events at the Freud Museum. She was the author of Her Brilliant Career: Ten Extraordinary Women of the Fifties and Kitchen Person, and the editor of The Virago Book of Friendship.



















