The Observer - The New Review - 21 Dez 2025

Table of content - The Observer - The New Review (21 Dez 2025)

CHRISTMAS SPECIAL
The 25 best books of the 21st century
Anna Leszkiewicz interviews Patricia Lockwood
Susannah Clapp on a thrilling Sondheim
Ben Okri poem: Scratching the Sky
The big picture
The big picture
Drink and be merry? Gen-Z don’t know how
The grid
Patricia Lockwood
Father Christmas
Father Christmas
THE 25 BEST BOOKS OF THE CENTURY SO FAR
ON THE ROAD AT CHRISTMAS
ON THE ROAD AT CHRISTMAS
‘Why can’t you be like other fathers and drive a Saab and work in data?’
In search of the ghosts of Christmas past
The rise of far-right US activist Nick Fuentes is all down to the media’s dereliction of duty
What I’m reading
My Nutcracker marathon
My Nutcracker marathon
Like a bat out of hell
And the rest…
Like a bat out of hell
What sharp teeth
Short
Who’s laughing now?
Back to the retro-future
Under Tangled Silence
The Celtic Wheel of the Year
I remember I forget
Blurrr
You Are the Morning
No One Was Driving the Car
Los Thuthanaka
Silence Gives Life
Resurrection symphony
Monteverdi Choir, English Baroque Soloists: Messiah
Come on, Grinch…
Anti-Christmas cinema
Henry Kissinger’s global vision
Henry Kissinger’s global vision
Scratching the Sky
This week
My uncle’s great Italian escape
A welcome return to print for Soraya Antonius’s novel, which, 40 years on, resonates more than ever with its story of a Palestine struggling for independence
Sisters of mercy
Three books on Wit
Taylor’s Eras tour doc is bland and perfunctory
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