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Kevin Rowland: ‘I couldn’t ever see myself doing the music again. I was violently against it'
The Dexys lead singer explains how tai chi and a vegan diet helped him find his creative energy – and why he was too shy to say hello to Bryan Ferry
Tim Adams
17, Sep, 2023 @12:00 PM
Doppelganger: A Trip Into the Mirror World by Naomi Klein review – across the great divide
The writer’s enjoyable obsession with the ‘other Naomi’ (Wolf), a conspiracy theorist, becomes a deeply insightful inquiry into the way technology fuels the polarisation of society
Tim Adams
17, Sep, 2023 @8:00 AM
‘I wake up happy! I’m singing all day’: Marina Abramović on pain, love – and her recent brush with death
The pioneer of extreme performance art is exploring the possibilities of happiness as, at 76, she becomes the first woman to have a full Royal Academy retrospective
Tim Adams
17, Sep, 2023 @6:00 AM
The big picture: when Nick Waplington became a wedding photographer
After documenting the colourful family life of his grandfather’s neighbour Janet in his first book, Waplington ended up capturing her big day
Tim Adams
17, Sep, 2023 @6:00 AM
A punk, a monkey, a maths genius … our pick of local heroes who deserve a blue plaque
With the London scheme poised to go national, Observer writers make their cases for a few of the many overlooked, snubbed or merely forgotten figures who richly deserve recognition
Tim Adams, Kitty Empire, John Naughton, Tim Lewis, Alice Fisher, Shaoni Bhattacharya, Eva Wiseman
10, Sep, 2023 @11:00 AM
The Handover by David Runciman review – is the future out of our control?
Surveying everything from hunter gatherers to Elon Musk, the Cambridge politics professor debates whether our fate is sealed by the machines we’ve created
Tim Adams
10, Sep, 2023 @10:00 AM
The big picture: playtime in New Orleans
Spending a long, hot summer in a Louisiana children’s camp, French photographer Vasantha Yogananthan explores the serious business of play
Tim Adams
10, Sep, 2023 @6:00 AM
Ruskin Park: Sylvia, Me and the BBC by Rory Cellan-Jones review – an intimate tale of romance and betrayal
The former BBC correspondent’s discovery of his mother’s letters to and from the father he first met at 23 makes for a captivating family detective story – and a poignant social history of Britain
Tim Adams
05, Sep, 2023 @6:00 AM
Rufus Wainwright: ‘I call Yorkshire Gold the crystal meth of teas’
The singer-songwriter on writing his first musical, being inspired by fatherhood, and revisiting his work in two Proms in a single night
Tim Adams
03, Sep, 2023 @8:30 AM
The big picture: an image that defined Chile’s brutal 1973 coup
Koen Wessing, a young Dutch photographer, flew to Santiago 50 years ago and showed the world what General Pinochet’s rule would mean for the country
Tim Adams
03, Sep, 2023 @6:00 AM
The big picture: praise dancers in Edna, Texas
Rahim Fortune’s image, taken in 2020, tells a complex story about Black identity
Tim Adams
27, Aug, 2023 @6:00 AM
Our favourite restaurants are vanishing, but some memories can be salvaged | Tim Adams
Farewell to London’s Le Gavroche, India Club, Banner’s and countless others that have hosted family celebrations down the decades
Tim Adams
26, Aug, 2023 @3:32 PM
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