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Rachel Cooke

June 2024

  • Spring in Troutbeck Valley with the Kentmere Fells beyond, in the scenic Lake District farm

    Notebook
    Following in the footsteps of David Nicholls’ characters turned out to be good for our soles

    Rachel Cooke
  • A girl plays on the beach at Weymouth in 1998, as shot by Martin Parr.

    The Great British Seaside
    Punch and Judy, penny slots and Pontins: why the great British seaside continues to hold our imagination

  • Detail from George Sand: True Genius, True Woman.

    Graphic novel of the month
    George Sand: True Genius, True Woman review – a pleasure and an education

  • Griffin Dunne with his best friend, the late Carrie Fisher.

    Observer book of the week
    The Friday Afternoon Club by Griffin Dunne review – a Hollywood insider with an outsider’s eye

  • ‘In South Africa, you hear of disappearance all the time’: one photographer’s search for his sister’s missing years

  • Rachel Cooke on food
    Wake up and smell the yorkshires – Sunday lunch is back!

    Rachel Cooke

  • ‘They didn’t dwell on it – they felt so many had suffered more’: Mishal Husain on her family history and the partition of India

  • Observer New Review Q&A
    Tate director Maria Balshaw: ‘I still come into work feeling terrified’

  • A century after his death, Kafka still sums up our surreal world

    Rachel Cooke

May 2024

  • A man holding a papier-mache body, with photographers and one of the lions of Nelson's column in the background

    ‘Freedom was around the corner’: how UK activists helped the exiled ANC to defeat apartheid

  • Wash-out? What wash-out?! Near constant torrential rain and storms are not enough to stop Britain's garden lovers from enjoying the 2024 RHS Chelsea Flower Show.

    Notebook
    Hardy as old hostas, Chelsea flower show fans lapse into a crazed kind of Britishness

    Rachel Cooke
  • Detail from So Long Sad Love by Mirion Malle.

    Graphic novel of the month
    So Long Sad Love by Mirion Malle review – an irresistible celebration of female courage

  • Protesters gather in the Capitol Hill Autonomous Zone in Seattle, Washington, June 2020

    Morning After the Revolution by Nellie Bowles review – the perils of failing to toe the party line

  • ‘My time has come!’: feminist artist Judy Chicago on a tidal wave of recognition at 84

  • Rachel Cooke on food
    Why is social media getting all churned up about cottage cheese?

    Rachel Cooke

  • Shirley Conran’s legacy is not only the filthy bits, but sisterhood too

    Rachel Cooke

  • Book of the day
    The Quality of Love by Ariane Bankes review – delicious portrait of the Paget twins

  • Michelangelo: The Last Decades review – feels close to a religious experience

  • Books interview
    Rebecca F Kuang: ‘I like to write to my friends in the style of Joan Didion’

April 2024

  • The Garden Against Time In Search of a Common Paradise by Olivia Laing UK - Picador. Publication date: 2 May 2024

    The Garden Against Time by Olivia Laing review – an Eden project of her own

    While a cast of literary heavyweights grace Laing’s account of her garden restoration, the real joys lie in her detailed description of the pruning and the planting and the soothing effect on her state of mind
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