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The New Review

Culture, reviews and features from the Observer

  • The Jesus Lizard.

    The Jesus Lizard: Rack review – Chicago punks return with pyrotechnics undimmed

  • Brittany Fousheé

    Fousheé: Pointy Heights review – a Caribbean-facing new direction

  • Will Self author photo

    Elaine by Will Self review – an intense reimagining of the author’s mother’s life

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    Book of the day
    Nexus: A Brief History of Information Networks from the Stone Age to AI by Yuval Noah Harari review – rage against the machine

  • The Final Cut - Charles Burns.

    Graphic novel of the month
    Final Cut by Charles Burns review – a book to be read and reread

  • Detail of Self-Portrait by Paul Gauguin, 1893.

    Book of the day
    Wild Thing: A Life of Paul Gauguin by Sue Prideaux review – savage with a sensitive side

  • Gillian Anderson lying on a lounger, laughing

    Want: Sexual Fantasies, edited by Gillian Anderson review – intriguing survey of desire

  • Teenagers using mobile phones while seated in rows during an exam.

    Exam Nation by Sammy Wright review – an essential lesson for Britain’s grade-obsessed education system

  • Alicia Vikander as Katherine Parr and Jude Law as Henry VIII.

    Firebrand review – magnetic Alicia Vikander and glorious Jude Law lift cautious Tudor court drama

  • A closeup of Lindsey Hilsum wearing a military helmet and body armour.

    ‘After Rwanda, I felt I needed philosophical more than psychological help’: journalist Lindsey Hilsum on war and the consolation of poetry

  • We Solve Murders by Richard Osman review – his new crime-fighting team is another winner

  • Rebel Ridge review – Aaron Pierre impresses in small-town US action thriller

  • ‘I have taken risks, but Damien is a staggering risk-taker’: Michael Craig-Martin on style, the YBAs and being the great late bloomer of British art

  • Apollo 13: Survival review – gripping documentary on Nasa’s near-disastrous lunar mission

  • Starve Acre review – Matt Smith and Morfydd Clark hole up in brooding Yorkshire folk-horror

  • People Who Like Dogs Like People Who Like Dogs review – a touching tale of the canine-human community

  • The week in theatre: G; The Spy Who Came in from the Cold; The Real Thing – review

  • Stopgap Dance Company: Lived Fiction review – a thrillingly inclusive celebration

  • The pub garden smoking ban is a drag on our freedoms

    David Mitchell
  • Goodbye Tinder, hello Strava: have ‘hobby’ apps become the new social networks?

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