The Illuminated Man, begun by Christopher Priest and completed by his widow Nina Allan, is a poignant meditation on pain and art

In 1989 Prince’s take on Donald Trump was a jester-like response to American capitalism. Almost 40 years on, the irony is still lost on Trump

In her defiant portraits, the photographer recasts the narrative around victimhood, giving the women and their relatives the humanity they deserve

In this episode, the editor of The Observer's New Review Tim Adams speaks to trailblazing publisher, editor and author Margaret Busby about her illuminating new book Part of the Story. Drawing on six decades at the heart of British publishing - from being the UK's youngest and first Black female publisher to championing overlooked voices across the African diaspora - Busby reflects on a career of breakthroughs, barriers and bold choices. 

The playwright on the ‘extraordinary forgiveness’ behind his play Punch

Four decades ago, David Cope became one of the first to develop a computer programme that could compose music. The industry reacted in horror – can art truly be art if it was created without feeling?

Full of the joys of spring, In Bloom offers an illuminating history of plants in painting

Leaked deposition videos reveal how young ideologues, armed with AI and contempt for expertise, set about dismantling American public services

The Epstein files were meant to bring transparency. Instead they left us sifting through fragments – images, emails, stray recordings – that raise unsettling questions about knowledge, curiosity and the limits of what anyone seemed willing to ask

The Peaky Blinders creator tells how childhood memories and myths of old Birmingham villains inspired a career that now includes a film studio on the site of his dad’s old smithy

Uncovered studio reports reveal Hollywood once rejected Ian Fleming’s books as implausible nonsense. As studios increasingly turn to AI, it’s a useful reminder that nobody, then or now, has the faintest idea of what will be a hit

The chronology of Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor’s demise under the influence of Jeffrey Epstein can be starkly told by these four now infamous photographs

Ahead of the closing date on 28 February, Tim Adams, New Review editor, recalls a writer’s doomed vocation. Here’s how to enter the annual prize

An exhibition marking the milestone captures the playful and transgressive intimacy of life behind the curtain

The novelist on how a false medical alarm inspired the search for answers in his prize-winning book Question 7

The author on challenging our perceptions of true crime, and Ripperologists

The author on his love affair with Lennon and McCartney, and rediscovering his writing mojo

The H is for Hawk author Helen Macdonald walks the Cambridgeshire fields where a goshawk became a spiritual guide

Seventy years of over-the-top shopfronts, snowy yards and roadside curiosities

The Observer journalist was the heart and soul of the paper for 25 years. She leaves an extraordinary legacy