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The New Review

Culture, reviews and features from the Observer

17 September 2024

  • The Dinosaur Next Door, by David Litchfield

    Picture books for children – reviews

  • Tracy Chevalier- Jonathan Drori 2019 - from publishers.

    Book of the day
    The Glassmaker by Tracy Chevalier review – time-skipping Venetian tour de force

16 September 2024

  • FILES-DRCONGO-BELGIUM-HISTORY-POLITICS-INDEPENDANCE<br>(FILES) In this file photo taken on January 27, 1960, leader of the Congolese national Movement, Patrice Lumumba, is welcomed at Brussels airport before attending a conference. - Leader of the Congolese national movement, Patrice Lumumba became the first Prime Minister (1960) of the new state Democatic Republic of the Congo, former Belgian Congo, renammed Zaire in 1971. Arrested in November 1960 and deposed, he was assassinated in January 1961. The daughter of the hero of Congo's independence, Patrice Emery Lumumba, asked the King of the Belgians to return Lumumba's remains to the country, nearly 60 years after the assassination of this "hero without a grave". (Photo by - / AFP) (Photo by -/AFP via Getty Images)

    Gabriel’s Moon by William Boyd review – a spy story to rival Restless

  • Pamela Churchill<br>1939: British born American socialite Pamela Churchill (right), nee Digby (later Pamela Harriman) with Lady Scott. (Photo by Keystone/Getty Images)

    Book of the day
    Kingmaker by Sonia Purnell review – Pamela Churchill Harriman’s astonishing life of seduction and power

15 September 2024

  • Author Sarah Moss sits on a chair in front of a wall of books on shelves.

    My Good Bright Wolf: A Memoir by Sarah Moss review – an interrogation of an eating disorder

  • Nabhaan Rizwan as Aden, sitting on the floor in a still from In Camera.

    In Camera review – smart, surreal showbiz satire hits a nerve

  • Five babies in nappies - one on its belly, four sitting - against a white background.

    Mother State by Helen Charman; What Are Children For? by Anastasia Berg and Rachel Wiseman review – the body political

  • Borobodur is arguably the greatest and most philosophically complex Buddhist structure in the world.

    The Golden Road by William Dalrymple review – the rational case for ancient India’s ingenuity

  • ‘Ozempic changed my life’: do diabetes jabs boost the chances of conception?

  • The networker
    By showing Musk’s X the red card, has Brazil scored a goal for all democracies?

    John Naughton

  • The Queen of My Dreams review – mother and daughter bond over Bollywood in colourful comedy romance

  • Show & Tell review – Alan Ayckbourn’s clever, very funny 90th play

  • Reawakening review – Juliet Stevenson and Jared Harris excel in muted domestic drama

  • The Critic review – deliciously waspish Ian McKellen lifts 30s London murder mystery

  • ‘The most horrific, sobering thing I’ve ever seen’: BBC nuclear apocalypse film Threads 40 years on

  • The Fertile Earth by Ruthvika Rao review – illuminating tale of love and morals

  • The week in theatre: Why Am I So Single?; The Band Back Together; Our Country’s Good – review

  • London City Ballet: Resurgence review – a glorious revival

  • The Tories have left the stage but their toxic cultural legacy is doing an encore

    Stewart Lee

  • You ask the questions
    ‘My whole life’s interconnected’: Neneh Cherry on the relationships that inspire her, leaving home at 15, and the joy of a trashy box set

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