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Xavier Greenwood
Freestyle chess is flipping the board on AI and the traditionalists
Wed 24 Dec 2025
Kitty Empire
What to do this weekend
Thu 18 Dec 2025
Guy Lodge
What to do this weekend, from André 3000 to Caroline Walker: Mothering
Fri 12 Dec 2025
Sarah Crompton
What to do this weekend, from Anna Ancher: Painting Light to Gatsby in Harlem
Fri 5 Dec 2025
Kate Finnigan
Gifts for curious children
Tue 2 Dec 2025
Fiona Maddocks
What to do this weekend, from holy dancing to William Kentridge’s sculptures
Fri 28 Nov 2025
Naomi Alderman
I’m a novelist who’s just bought a video games company. Here’s why you should care about games writing
Mon 24 Nov 2025
Simon Parkin
My Child New Beginnings is a game about raising traumatised children
Sun 23 Nov 2025
Wendy Ide
What to do this weekend, from a Lee Miller exhibition to a festival of melodrama
Fri 21 Nov 2025
Kitty Empire
Playlist of the week:Â the most unexpected collaborations
Thu 20 Nov 2025
Simon Parkin
Ball x Pit revives the oldest arcade instinct
Sun 16 Nov 2025
Simon Parkin
Final Fantasy Tactics is an ambitious, literary video game
Sun 2 Nov 2025
Tim Adams
The £3,000 Observer/Anthony Burgess prize for new writers is open
Sat 1 Nov 2025
Fiona Maddocks
Movers and Shakers at the Queen Elizabeth Hall
Fri 3 Oct 2025
Rowan Moore
Psychedelic Milton Keynes
Fri 3 Oct 2025
Simon Parkin
A female samurai game in the cross-hairs of the culture wars
Thu 25 Sept 2025
Simon Parkin
Sword of the Sea offers a glimmer of hope to the world
Wed 3 Sept 2025
Simon Parkin
Luto – the video game about grief
Sat 2 Aug 2025
Simon Parkin
Date Everything! The game that turns household items into objects of desire
Sun 6 Jul 2025
Rebecca Fallon
The comic therapists who created an Edinburgh hit factory
Sat 28 Jun 2025
One slow day in the life: Observer/Burgess prize 2025 winners
Tue 20 May 2025
Xan Brooks
A misfire – then Cruise control at Cannes
Sun 18 May 2025
Laura Cumming
Helen Chadwick: a rare radical
Sun 18 May 2025
Miranda Sawyer
This week in audio: Diddy on Trial
Sat 17 May 2025
Fiona Maddocks
The English Concert triumph in a timeless Handel hit
Fri 16 May 2025
Sarah Crompton
The wonder of Christopher Wheeldon
Fri 16 May 2025
Susannah Clapp
Gary Oldman is extraordinary in Krapp’s Last Tape
Sun 27 Apr 2025
Wendy Ide
Film: Naomi Watts takes the lead... and more
Sat 26 Apr 2025
