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Tim Adams

Tim Adams grew up in Birmingham. A former editor of the Observer’s books pages and of the Review section, he has been a staff writer, contributing features, interviews, reviews and comment, since 2000. Recent awards include the 2015 One World award for newspaper journalist of the year, and the Foreign Press award for arts and culture writing. He is the author of Being John McEnroe (Penguin Random House).


July 2024

  • A young girl and a man doing handstands against a wall

    The big picture
    The big picture: precarious lives and playfulness in a London square

  • Portrait of Anne Applebaum against a white background

    Pulitzer-winning author Anne Applebaum: ‘Often, for autocrats, the second time in power is worse’

  • Thomas Hoepker's photograph of Gus the polar bear in Central Park Zoo, New York, 1993. Gus is suspended in blue water in his tank.

    The big picture
    The big picture: Central Park Zoo’s star turn by Thomas Hoepker

  • Frederick Douglass.

    Book of the day
    The History of Ideas by David Runciman review – big thinkers with visions of a better world

  • The big picture
    The big picture: an outsider’s eye on suburban Americans at play

  • The big picture
    The big picture: Louis Stettner on commuters in 1950s New York

  • Voter turnout at general election was lowest since 2001 – politics live as it happened

  • Notebook
    Is it time to turn the British Museum into the world’s great lending library?

    Tim Adams
  • ‘She wasn’t sure how to get off the stage’: Liz Truss’s ungracious count retreat caps political humiliation

June 2024

  • Nick Clegg and David Cameron, both in suits and ties, stand at podiums with microphones in the garden of 10 Downing Street and look at each other, Cameron gesturing with his right hand

    The 14 long and wasted years of Tory Britain

  • From the series Rotting from Within, by Abdulhamid Kircher.

    The big picture
    The big picture: Abdulhamid Kircher reflects on his traumatic family history

  • David Baddiel.

    My Family: The Memoir by David Baddiel review – sex, lies and the making of a standup

  • Rory Stewart photographed at home, Sep 2023

    Observer New Review Q&A
    Ex-Tory MP Rory Stewart: ‘I guess my hand will float over Labour, but will probably come down on Lib Dems or the Greens’

  • The big picture
    The big picture: a nudist paradise in 1930s France by Pierre Audebert

  • Lunch with...
    Conservationist Isabella Tree: ‘Rewilding is vital for the UK’s agricultural future’

  • The big picture
    The big picture: Joel Meyerowitz in 1960s Málaga

  • The big picture
    The big picture: Bertien van Manen’s otherworldly arrivals hall

  • ‘The Tories don’t care’: Clacton’s weary voters turn towards Nigel Farage once more

  • Notebook
    Infowars liquidation a small measure of justice for bereaved Sandy Hook families

    Tim Adams
  • The big picture
    The big picture: Robbie Lawrence’s search for the tartan spirit

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