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Anthony Cummins
Jeremy Cooper’s Discord is a perfectly pitched comedy
Sat 21 Feb 2026
Clare Brennan
Crown of Blood moves Macbeth’s blasted heath to Yorubaland
Sat 21 Feb 2026
Miranda Sawyer
Remember Me? lets the once famous relive their time in the limelight
Sat 21 Feb 2026
Laura Cumming
Yin Xiuzhen and Chiharu Shiota at the Hayward recycles old material
Sat 21 Feb 2026
Wendy Ide
Wendy Ide’s pick of other films: If I Had Legs I’d Kick You, The Moment, Cold Storage and more
Sat 21 Feb 2026
Fiona Maddocks
What to do this weekend, from a lunchtime organ recital to snowdrop walks
Fri 20 Feb 2026
Olivia Ovenden
What to watch this week, from The Walsh Sisters to The Night Agent
Fri 20 Feb 2026
Sarah Moss
What’s on my mind: Sarah Moss
Fri 20 Feb 2026
Chris Power
Paperback of the week: Base Notes by Adelle Stripe
Fri 20 Feb 2026
Mark Solms
What to read to understand Freud
Fri 20 Feb 2026
Vanessa Thorpe
Shoshana Zuboff wants to abolish social media
Fri 20 Feb 2026
Katherine Cowles
The latest Dracula has no teeth
Fri 20 Feb 2026
Katherine Cowles
The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry gets stuck in the mush
Fri 20 Feb 2026
Olivia Ovenden
Being Gordon Ramsay is hard to stomach
Fri 20 Feb 2026
Lily Isaacs
Playlist of the week: songs inspired by literature
Thu 19 Feb 2026
Laura Cumming
How to draw a bird
Thu 19 Feb 2026
Tom Gatti
What to read this week, from the Maga right to an Orthodox love story
Thu 19 Feb 2026
Olivia Ovenden
Rebecca Perry’s debut novel serves a feast for an unfit king
Thu 19 Feb 2026
Killian Fox
Óliver Laxe: ‘The film is alive inside me. It’s intense’
Thu 19 Feb 2026
Xavier Greenwood
Max Olesker’s gruelling journey to Orthodox Judaism put my own conversion into context
Thu 19 Feb 2026
Wendy Ide
The Secret Agent is an anarchic, supremely entertaining thriller
Thu 19 Feb 2026
Killian Fox
The big picture: Larry Sultan’s circus trick
Thu 19 Feb 2026
Jonathan Romney
The best and worst from the Berlin film festival
Wed 18 Feb 2026
Jonathan Lewis
Nitazene, a drug 500 times stronger than heroin, is flooding the UK
Wed 18 Feb 2026
Kenan Malik
Anatomy of the Maga right
Wed 18 Feb 2026
Vanessa Thorpe
Marion Coutts: ‘I essentially think memory is made up’
Tue 17 Feb 2026
Killian Fox
The big picture: Kerala’s defiant bodybuilder
Sun 15 Feb 2026
Fiona Noble
Young adult books of the month: sisters, lovers and assassins
Sun 15 Feb 2026
Killian Fox
Bill Callahan: ‘Lily Allen splatters blood and guts all over the walls’
Sun 15 Feb 2026
Emily Berry
The Sunday Poem: Five Dollar Shake
Sun 15 Feb 2026
Laura Cumming
How Seurat found peace by the sea
Sun 15 Feb 2026
Megan Nolan
What’s on my mind: Megan Nolan
Sat 14 Feb 2026
Tara Joshi
The grid: Beatriz González’s multicoloured masterworks
Sat 14 Feb 2026
Sarah Crompton
The immortal work of Pina Bausch
Sat 14 Feb 2026
Clare Brennan
War of the Worlds is a visually thrilling portrait of desolation
Sat 14 Feb 2026
Wendy Ide
Wendy Ide’s pick of other films: The President’s Cake, Crime 101, Looney Tunes and more
Sat 14 Feb 2026
Miranda Sawyer
How Did We Get Here? Israel and the Palestinians is a sobering history
Sat 14 Feb 2026
Lily Isaacs
Rebecca Fallon’s Family Drama finds sincerity in soap operas
Sat 14 Feb 2026
Andrew Anthony
Eric Schlosser: ‘We’re still living in Fast Food Nation’
Sat 14 Feb 2026
Tim Adams
The £3,000 Observer / Anthony Burgess prize for arts journalism
Fri 13 Feb 2026
Rachel Sylvester
The making of Sajid Javid
Fri 13 Feb 2026
Susannah Clapp
Arcadia, Tom Stoppard’s dance to the music of time, is short on swing
Fri 13 Feb 2026
Olivia Ovenden
Lord of the Flies is an anatomy of boyhood cruelty
Fri 13 Feb 2026
Guy Lodge
What to do this weekend, from Sentimental Value to a Galentine’s night out
Fri 13 Feb 2026
David Barnett
‘I wasn’t playing a role on The Traitors. That was just me’
Fri 13 Feb 2026
Sean O’Hagan
Peter Doig’s House of Music was a sound-and-vision sensation
Thu 12 Feb 2026
Olivia Ovenden
What to watch this week, from Lord of the Flies to Small Prophets
Thu 12 Feb 2026
Andrew Motion
John Berryman’s great American songbook
Thu 12 Feb 2026
Chris Power
Paperback of the week: The Virago Book of Friendship
Thu 12 Feb 2026
Austin McCoy
What to read to understand hip-hop
Thu 12 Feb 2026
Alexi Mostrous
Cash rules everything in the age of money laundering
Thu 12 Feb 2026
Tom Gatti
What to read this week, from John Berryman to female friendship
Thu 12 Feb 2026
Clare Clark
Trouble in sunny Spyland
Thu 12 Feb 2026
Olivia Ovenden
What The Brutalist film-makers did next
Thu 12 Feb 2026
Simon Parkin
The man making books sexy again
Thu 12 Feb 2026
Sean O’Hagan
Ece Temelkuran: ‘Once you call it fascism you have to act on it’
Wed 11 Feb 2026
Ian Thomson
The Soviet Union’s long goodbye
Wed 11 Feb 2026
Natalie Bignell
A tetraplegic artist reclaims the night that changed her life
Wed 11 Feb 2026
Erica Wagner
Michael Imperioli: ‘To make a living in this business is miraculous’
Wed 11 Feb 2026
Wendy Ide
Wuthering Heights is red-blooded, raunchy and entirely unfaithful
Tue 10 Feb 2026
Killian Fox
The big picture: Kalpesh Lathigra’s outsider’s view
Mon 9 Feb 2026
Matt Alagiah
A clean start at a London laundry
Sun 8 Feb 2026
Clare Brennan
Manipulate festival: candyfloss puppets and cabaret Anna Karenina
Sun 8 Feb 2026
Guy Lodge
Deleted scenes: the scandal-hit Sundance favourites
Sun 8 Feb 2026
Daljit Nagra
The Sunday Poem: lips by Daljit Nagra
Sun 8 Feb 2026
Killian Fox
Introducing the Rachel Cooke Graphic Short Story prize
Sun 8 Feb 2026
Tim Adams
Snap happy: a century of photo booths
Sun 8 Feb 2026
Rose Tremain
What’s on my mind: Rose Tremain
Sat 7 Feb 2026
Wendy Ide
Wendy Ide’s pick of other films: My Father’s Shadow, Send Help, 100 Nights of Hero
Sat 7 Feb 2026
Miranda Sawyer
Blood Memory is the latest gem from a master of audio storytelling
Sat 7 Feb 2026
Laura Cumming
The private lives of Gwen John
Sat 7 Feb 2026
Sean Gilbert
What to read to understand obsession
Fri 6 Feb 2026
Tara Joshi
The grid: Van Gogh’s yellow fixation
Fri 6 Feb 2026
Barbara Ellen
What to watch this week, from the Lucy Letby doc to Francis Bourgeois’ space mission
Fri 6 Feb 2026
Caitlin Macdonald
What to do this weekend, from Martin Parr to the Winter Olympics
Fri 6 Feb 2026
Barbara Ellen
What’s the point of Netflix’s Lucy Letby doc?
Fri 6 Feb 2026
Chris Power
Paperback of the week: Nada by Jean-Patrick Manchette
Fri 6 Feb 2026
Wendy Ide
The Chronology of Water is the abrasive work of an auteur
Fri 6 Feb 2026
Susannah Clapp
American Psycho on stage – style over savagery
Fri 6 Feb 2026
Tom Gatti
What to read this week, from Gordon Brown to a history of plagiarism
Thu 5 Feb 2026
Jude Rogers
Why plagiarism matters in the age of AI
Thu 5 Feb 2026
Killian Fox
All the Living by Roman Muradov
Thu 5 Feb 2026
Chris Power
Mathias Énard: ‘I write with a bastard tongue’
Thu 5 Feb 2026
Nicola Sturgeon
Why I changed my mind about Gordon Brown
Thu 5 Feb 2026
Jeevan Vasagar
Clean energy’s dirty truths
Wed 4 Feb 2026
Lisa Wright
Simon Amstell: ‘Nothing in my life felt better than hearing people laugh’
Tue 3 Feb 2026
Kitty Empire
When protest came to the Grammys
Mon 2 Feb 2026
Tara Joshi
The grid: At play in Paul Smith’s archive
Mon 2 Feb 2026
Erica Wagner
Catherine Newman’s American pastoral
Sun 1 Feb 2026
Rowan Moore
How Millport Town Hall became the pride of the Clyde
Sun 1 Feb 2026
Matt Howard
Light in the form of a hare
Sun 1 Feb 2026
Wendy Ide
Wendy Ide’s pick of other films: Is This Thing On?, Kangaroo, Shelter and more
Sat 31 Jan 2026
Jade Cuttle
Poetry book of the month: Unsafe by Karen McCarthy Woolf
Sat 31 Jan 2026
Sarah Crompton
Paul Taylor Dance Company showcases works of grace and light
Sat 31 Jan 2026
Laura Cumming
A View of One’s Own rescues forgotten women artists
Sat 31 Jan 2026
Miranda Sawyer
Hanging Out with Ant & Dec: good vibes and not much else
Sat 31 Jan 2026
Chris Power
Paperback of the week – Israel: A Personal History by Göran Rosenberg
Sat 31 Jan 2026
Killian Fox
‘The Tate’s Nigerian Modernism exhibition was a knockout’
Sat 31 Jan 2026
Chris Power
Siddhartha Mukherjee: ‘This disease is intrinsically linked to panic and fear’
Fri 30 Jan 2026
