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“It’s sweltering hot, and humid, and behind the camera I’m dripping in sweat,” recalls Ivan McClellan of taking this photograph in Hempstead, Texas, last August. His subject is 17-year-old Kortnee Solomon, a talented barrel racer – short...
is the author of Faith, Hope and Carnage, based on more than 40 hours of lockdown conversations with Nick Cave.
has written about arts and media for the Observer for three decades. She is currently arts editor of the New Review.
is a frequent contributor to the New Review. His book about migration, What We Leave, We Carry, was published in June. Daylight Come: Harry Belafonte and the World He Made Joshua Jelly-Schapiro Penguin Press USA, £26.99, pp384 “Would you...
is the Observer’s art critic. Her books include On Chapel Sands, and Thunderclap, a memoir of art and life.
It takes a few tries to get to the factory. Teddy Grays of Dudley is 200 years old and makes its range of hard-boiled sweets the traditional way, with copper pots and lots of heat. Thirty degrees outside can make it 43 in the engine room, so it...
was children’s laureate from 2024 to 2026. His book about that experience, A British Childhood, is out now. I was on my way back from holiday when Dolly Parton died. I turned my phone on and saw a series of texts asking me to say a few words...