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Lily Isaacs
Five Nights at Epstein’s: a dark new addition to the meme-ification of the infamous abuser
Mon 30 Mar 2026
Lily Isaacs
What to do this weekend, from St Patrick’s day parade to Janet Cardiff’s walk through time
Fri 13 Mar 2026
Rowan Moore
What to do this weekend, from Rose Wylie to Dirty Business
Thu 5 Mar 2026
Barbara Ellen
What to do this weekend, from Agatha Christie box sets to This Body festival
Thu 26 Feb 2026
Fiona Maddocks
What to do this weekend, from a lunchtime organ recital to snowdrop walks
Fri 20 Feb 2026
Simon Parkin
Relooted turns the repatriation debate into play
Wed 18 Feb 2026
Tim Adams
The £3,000 Observer / Anthony Burgess prize for arts journalism
Fri 13 Feb 2026
Guy Lodge
What to do this weekend, from Sentimental Value to a Galentine’s night out
Fri 13 Feb 2026
Caitlin Macdonald
What to do this weekend, from Martin Parr to the Winter Olympics
Fri 6 Feb 2026
Simon Parkin
TR-49 is a thrilling code-breaking game
Sun 1 Feb 2026
Katherine Cowles
What to do this weekend, from Timothée Chalamet in conversation to the First Lady worth seeing
Thu 29 Jan 2026
Simon Parkin
How Arc Raiders became a surprise hit
Sun 18 Jan 2026
Barbara Ellen
What to do this weekend, from David Bowie’s archives to a festival of dance
Fri 16 Jan 2026
Simon Parkin
The best games of 2025
Thu 25 Dec 2025
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
