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Rachel Cooke

April 2025

  • Paul Auster New York Trilogy graphic novel for Observer Books

    Graphic novel of the month
    Paul Auster’s The New York Trilogy review – a classic that will be read for decades to come

  • Observer New Review winner of the graphic short story prize 2024 Lesley Imgart at home in edinburgh

    Observer/Faber graphic short story prize
    The Faber/Observer/Comica graphic short story prize 2025 – enter now!

March 2025

  • Graydon Carter.

    Observer New Review Q&A
    Journalist Graydon Carter: ‘If there was another 9/11 this week, I don’t think the world would rush to support us’

  • A socially distanced performance at Wigmore Hall in London during the pandemic in 2020.

    Notebook
    Wigmore Hall’s principled stand over public funding is music to my ears

    Rachel Cooke
  • Pablo Picasso and Françoise Gilot at the beach in 1950 film La Vie Commence Demain (Life Begins Tomorrow).

    Book of the day
    Hidden Portraits: The Untold Stories of Six Women Who Loved Picasso by Sue Roe review – artist as lothario

  • London-based knife-maker Holly Loftus in her workshop.

    No more wonky sourdough: in search of the perfect kitchen knife

  • Graphic novel of the month
    There’s No Time Like the Present by Paul B Rainey review – a funny, unpredictable and wild comic

  • Rachel Cooke on food
    Breakfast fads come and go, but at heart, is Britain a nation of cereal eaters?

    Rachel Cooke

  • How To End a Story: Collected Diaries by Helen Garner review – the greatest journals since Virginia Woolf’s

  • Graphic novel of the month
    Cry When the Baby Cries by Becky Barnicoat review – the black and white truth about motherhood

  • Crumble, cookies and madeleines – recipes of hope for Iran’s jailed women

  • Notebook
    With lists and notebooks, I find that I am worryingly on the same page as Elon Musk

    Rachel Cooke

February 2025

  • John Stoltenberg and Andrea Dworkin together at home in Brooklyn in 2003.

    ‘It feels like a vindication’: Andrea Dworkin’s widower on the radical feminist’s rediscovery

  • Moro’s pepper, anchovy and egg on toast

    Rachel Cooke on food
    My boiler has broken and I’m finding solace in a slice (or several) of toast

    Rachel Cooke
  • Illustration by Eleanor Shakespeare.

    Jane’s world: fans and admirers pick their favourite Austen characters

  • Feminist Demo in Boston<br>A feminist organization "Wages For Housework" protesting with members of PUMA (Prostitutes Union of Massachusetts) to convey the idea that Housewives and Prostitutes are subject to the same abuse by men, Boston Common, Boston, US, June 1977; the group has staged a trial which found society guilty of "pimping off the work of all women" and sentenced it to "an eternity of unpaid housework". (Photo by Archive Photos/Getty Images)

    Observer book of the week
    Wages for Housework by Emily Callaci review – dust off those protest banners

  • Book of the day
    Looking at Women, Looking at War by Victoria Amelina review – in memory of the Ukrainian novelist who catalogued war crimes

  • Flat whites or long blacks? What our changing coffee tastes say about us

January 2025

  • This Beautiful, Ridiculous City by Kay Sohini

    Graphic novel of the month
    This Beautiful, Ridiculous City review – New York state of mind

  • Getty Images Portrait Studio Presented By IMDb And IMDbPro At The Intercontinental Hotel Toronto, 2024<br>TORONTO, ONTARIO - SEPTEMBER 07: Naomi Watts of 'The Friend' poses in the Getty Images Portrait Studio Presented by IMDb and IMDbPro during the Toronto International Film Festival at InterContinental Toronto Centre on September 07, 2024 in Toronto, Ontario. (Photo by Gareth Cattermole/Getty Images for IMDb)

    Observer book of the week
    Dare I Say It by Naomi Watts review – a Hollywood star’s hot years

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