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July 2024

  • Evan Wright at the premiere of Generation Kill in California in 2008

    Generation Kill author Evan Wright dies aged 59

  • Which Way is the Front Line From Here?, Sundance Film Festival 2013<br>Tim Hetherington with Sebastian Junger. THIS IMAGE CAN BE USED FOR SEBASTIAN JUNGER'S BOOK REVIEW JULY 7 2024 - WITH THE CAPTION - Sebastian Junger/ Which Way Is the Front Line from Here/ Outpost Films.

    In My Time of Dying by Sebastian Junger review – from here to eternity

June 2024

  • Boris Berezovsky. Leaves Bow Street Magistrates Court, wearing a mask depicting Vladamir Putin, the Russian president. London. 02-04-2003. Photograph by Martin Godwin.

    Book of the day
    The Kremlin’s Noose by Amy Knight review – vital primer on Putin’s Russia and Boris Berezovsky’s death

    The American historian and expert on Russia has written a definitive study of the flamboyant life and mysterious death of the oligarch, a confidant of Yeltsin and a man to whom Putin was once indebted
  • A Rohingya family reaches the Bangladesh border after crossing a creek of the Naf river on the border with Myanmmar, in Cox's Bazar's Teknaf area, Tuesday, Sept. 5, 2017. (AP Photo/Bernat Armangue)

    On the Shadow Tracks by Clare Hammond review – a train to Myanmar’s dark heart

    On a 3,000-mile journey, the journalist meets disparate peoples and discovers a world too often veiled, piecing together a fascinating modern history of a country blighted by corruption and conflict
  • Oleksandr Mykhed photographed near Kyiv’s central railway station, May 2024.

    Ukrainian author turned soldier Oleksandr Mykhed: ‘This is not Putin’s war. This is a war waged by the whole Russian nation’

    In 2022, the writer was living an ordinary life with his wife in Kyiv. Now, after fleeing his home and volunteering for the army, he’s written a powerful account of the past two years

May 2024

  • CHINA-HEALTH-VIRUS<br>This photo taken on January 25, 2020 shows medical staff wearing protective clothing to protect against the deadly COVID-2019 coronavirus as they work at the Wuhan Red Cross Hospital in Wuhan. - Doctors on the frontline of China's new coronavirus epidemic are facing a daunting task: treat an ever-growing number of infected patients and risk getting infected themselves due to a drastic shortage of masks and other protective equipment. (Photo by HECTOR RETAMAL / AFP) / TO GO WITH China-health-virus-hospital,FOCUS by Eva Xiao and Ludovic Ehret (Photo by HECTOR RETAMAL/AFP via Getty Images)

    Wuhan: How the Covid-19 Outbreak in China Spiraled Out of Control; Wuhan: A Documentary Novel – reviews

    Dali L Yang’s critique of China’s response in the early days of the Covid pandemic is thoroughgoing if academic, while poet Liao Yiwu’s account mixes fact and fiction to extraordinary effect
  • A couple embrace prior to the woman boarding a train carriage leaving for western Ukraine, at the railway station in Kramatorsk, eastern Ukraine, Sunday, Feb. 27, 2022. The U.N. refugee agency says nearly 120,000 people have so far fled Ukraine into neighboring countries in the wake of the Russian invasion. The number was going up fast as Ukrainians grabbed their belongings and rushed to escape from a deadly Russian onslaught. (AP Photo/Andriy Andriyenko)

    Night Train to Odesa by Jen Stout review – from Ukraine with love

    Ordinary Ukrainians and their haunting stories are the heroes of the Scottish reporter’s wonderful hymn to an embattled nation
  • Johann Hari’s reporting has previously been called into question.

    Magic Pill by Johann Hari review – weighing in

    There is a useful book to be written about the rise of anti-obesity drugs such as Ozempic, but this flawed account is not it

March 2024

  • Corin Hirsch

    Why I quit
    Buried under chicken wings and with cholesterol soaring, I knew I’d had my fill of reviewing restaurants

    Corin Hirsch
    ‘Wait,’ people would say. ‘You get paid to eat?’ Yes, and eating out five times a day was joyful – for a while, at least, says journalist Corin Hirsch
  • Becca Rothfeld

    Book of the day
    All Things Are Too Small by Becca Rothfeld review – bracing and brilliant essay collection

    The iconoclastic US author’s intellectually poised critique of minimalism boasts scintillating writing of breadth and power
  • Worker figures<br>EMBARGOED TO 0001 MONDAY OCTOBER 30 File photo dated 06/10/2021 of people walking through Canary Wharf in London, as the number of over 65-year-olds in work has increased massively in recent years, as staying in a job beyond state pension age is becoming increasingly common, new research by the Centre for Ageing Better suggests. PA Photo. Issue date: Monday October 30, 2023. See PA story INDUSTRY Workers. Photo credit should read: Victoria Jones/PA Wire

    Cuckooland by Tom Burgis review – reputation management

    A work of investigative reporting whose very existence proves that the rich don’t always have the last word

February 2024

  • Marianna Spring photographed by Sophia Evans for the Observer New Review

    Observer New Review Q&A
    BBC disinformation reporter Marianna Spring: ‘My approach to fear is to try to make sense of it’

  • Giant robot throwing man in a trash can.

    The AI tools that might stop you getting hired

November 2023

  • Strangler fig overgrown ruin, Ficus sp., Coastal rainforest, Mata Atlantica, Bahia, Brazil South America<br>2R2G0CW Strangler fig overgrown ruin, Ficus sp., Coastal rainforest, Mata Atlantica, Bahia, Brazil South America

    Verdant Inferno/A Scabby Black Brazilian by Alberto Rangel/ Jean-Christophe Goddard review – an Amazonian beauty

  • Val Wilmer: Rural Blues guitarist Guitar Shorty at home, Elm City, North Carolina 1972

    ‘Fela Kuti was always in his pants’: legendary music photographer Val Wilmer’s greatest shoots

  • Simon Jenkins

    Napoleon and The Crown are travesties: there is no ‘artistic licence’ to distort history

    Simon Jenkins
  • A portrait of Louis Theroux with a bloodied lip and wearing boxing gloves, with his hands held up to his face

    Louis Theroux: ‘It’s not rude to ask a question. It’s rude to expect an answer’

October 2023

  • Protesters hold pictures of the late journalist Daphne Caruana Galizia outside prime minister Joseph Muscat's office to call for his resignation, in 2019

    Book of the day
    A Death in Malta by Paul Caruana Galizia review – courage under fire

    An unforgettable account of the life and murder of Maltese journalist Daphne Caruana Galizia
  • A woman looking at the cityscape of Moscow from a bridge

    Book of the day
    I Love Russia by Elena Kostyuchenko review – reportage at its best

    The Novaya Gazeta journalist offers brilliant, immersive bulletins from her homeland but doesn’t explain its return to totalitarian rule
  • Hilary Mantel.

    A Memoir of My Former Self by Hilary Mantel review – smart reflections on Wolf Hall, religion… and RoboCop

    This collection of essays and journalism is a poignant reminder of the novelist’s expansive mind, and of what more she might have achieved
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