The Emperor review – majestic Kathryn Hunter gives 10 great performances
Hunter is a strutting minister one minute and valet de chambre the next in this shrewd and resonant account of the Ethiopian autocrat’s fall from grace
April 2015
Books blog
Tips, links and suggestions: what are you reading this week?
Your space to discuss the books you are reading and what you think of them
May 2013
Observer writer wins Ryszard Kapuściński award 2013
Ed Vulliamy won the prize for his book Amexica: War Along the Borderline, which documents the US-Mexican drug wars
August 2012
Ryszard Kapuscinski: A Life by Artur Domoslawski – review
Ryszard Kapuściński: A Life by Artur Domosławski – review
June 2011
Deadly Waters: Inside the Hidden World of Somalia's Pirates by Jay Bahadur – review
A young journalist's voyage into the world of Somali piracy reveals plenty of courage but few surprises, writes Andrew Anthony
March 2010
Bearing witness is a sacred trust
Timothy Garton Ash
A brilliant writer who mistrusted clarity
Lara Pawson
Books blog
Ryszard Kapuściński was a great story-teller, not a liar
Poland's ace reporter Ryszard Kapuściński accused of fiction-writing
September 2009
The Other by Ryszard Kapuscinski
This slim collection of four of Kapuscinski's lectures is intelligently written says Helen Zaltzman
December 2008
The Other
Review: The Other by Ryszard Kapuscinski Steven Poole enjoys the celebrated Polish foreign correspondent self-imposed exile
November 2008
A civilised approach to the question of humanity
Review: The Other by Ryszard Kapuscinski A short, simple, extraordinarily intelligent book, says Jason Burke
April 2008
All around the world
Mike Carter on Travels With Herodotus
June 2007
Two for the road
Ryszard Kapuscinski found the perfect travel companion in Herodotus, writes Sara Wheeler.
The mystery of history
Critical eye: Owen Sheers's exceptional debut Resistance, Ryszard Kapuscinski's spare, characterful prose in Travels with Herodotus, and Michael Chabon's The Yiddish Policemen's Union - a work of unmitigated chutzpah.
Lessons of the Histories
A sense of wonder
Making history
May 2007
Famed Polish writer outed as 'spy' in anti-communist purge
The celebrated Polish writer and reporter, Ryszard Kapuscinski, yesterday became the latest public figure to be "outed" as a "communist spy" in Poland.
