Observer Food Monthly Awards 2017: the winners - in pictures
Observer Food Monthly Awards 2017
OFM Awards 2017: Editor’s Award – AA Gill
April 2017
Peter Preston on press and broadcasting
The Sunday Times is making a meal out of finding a successor for AA Gill
Peter Preston
Perhaps the paper needs to change its recipe when choosing who will fill the critic’s empty place
February 2017
Lines in the Sand: Collected Journalism by AA Gill – review
These posthumous essays reveal AA Gill’s ability to transcend the particular with wit and compassion
January 2017
Lines in the Sand by AA Gill review – stylish to the end
A posthumous collection from the eloquent but controversial bon viveur
December 2016
It wasn't all bad: good news in 2016
2016's best bits: October to December
AA Gill’s death doesn’t mean the NHS is broken – or that private healthcare is superior
Ann Robinson
Peter Preston on press and broadcasting
Fond farewell to the acidulous Mr Gill
Peter Preston
2016 – the mother of all awful years
Victoria Coren Mitchell
Hadley Freeman's Weekend column
AA Gill’s fearless journalism was an inspiration – so why didn’t I tell him that?
Hadley Freeman
AA Gill's final column says NHS could not give him new cancer treatment
AA Gill obituary
AA Gill, journalist and restaurant critic, dies aged 62 – video obituary
AA Gill's best quotes
AA Gill dies weeks after revealing he had cancer in restaurant review
November 2016
AA Gill opens restaurant review with cancer disclosure
Sunday Times critic wanted to alert readers to any effect of chemotherapy on his taste buds and says he has no ‘bucket list’
November 2015
Critical eye
Book reviews roundup: Number 11; Pour Me; The Penguin Book of the British Short Story
What the critics thought of Jonathan Coe’s Number 11; AA Gill’s Pour Me and The Penguin Book of the British Short Story, edited by Philip Hensher
Book of the day
Pour Me: A Life by AA Gill review – from drunk to doyen of Fleet Street
The critic’s improbable tale of redemption is frank, funny and flamboyant
My name is Stewart Lee, and I’m an AAlcoholic
Stewart Lee
Today the doctor, holding a copy of the Sunday Times, said: ‘Have you stopped reading AA Gill’s columns yet? If you don’t, you will destroy yourself.’
August 2015
Peter Preston on press and broadcasting
Restaurant critics are serving us dishes with little real meat
Peter Preston
Seeing AA Gill and Giles Coren disagree over a swanky Indian restaurant is good entertainment – but where’s the solid advice on where to go for dinner?
