The Observer - 04.08.2019

Agenda

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Concert-goers

climb the

sound towers

at Woodstock

festival in Bethel,

New York,

August 1969.

Elliott Landy/

Magnum Photos

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Agenda 2-7

Critics 30-45

Features 8-24

Books 46-53

Science & Tech 25-29

Puzzles & Television

54-64

 On my radar Poet Inua Ellams

on his cultural highlights

 Q&A Former Labour minister

Alan Johnson

 The grid A celebration of the

first illustrated book on insects

 David Mitchell column

 Politics Three years after the

referendum, how does the rest of

the world view the UK? We asked

journalists around the globe...

 Music Kate Hutchinson meets

rising star Sam Fender at his

Newcastle homecoming show

 Film Observer readers’ pick of

the best children’s films

 Kate Kellaway enjoys

Rhik Samadder’s memoir,

I Never Said I Loved You

 Tim Adams reviews Colson

Whitehead’s new novel,

The Nickel Boys

 The books interview

Nafissa Thompson-Spiers

 Jonnie Wolf on two contrasting

takes on mindfulness

 YA books of the month

 Surveillance What does facial

recognition technology mean for

civil liberties, asks Tom Chivers

 John Naughton Technology

allows inequality to thrive

 Q&A Cardiologist and author

Haider Warraich

 The five Animal species

affected by plastic pollution

 Everyman crossword, sudoku,

Azed crossword, chess, readers’

pictures – p54-55

 The week’s television and

radio highlights – p56-57

 Today’s television – p64

 Monday to Saturday’s listings

and choices – p58-63

The fi nest writing every Sunday for arts,

science, politics and ideas

Feedback

Last week, Robert McCrum shed

light on another side of Samuel

Beckett’s personality, which he

uncovered during the making of a

Radio 4 documentary. Here’s how

you responded:

What an astute piece by someone

who understands that Beckett

was a life-loving optimist whose

subject happened to be human

mortality.

Basil Ransome-Davies, Lancaster

Th e patients Beckett visited at Bethlem

while researching Murphy , and Lucia

Joyce , who suff ered from schizophrenia

and whom he befriended, may have

infl uenced Beckett’s later work, which

seems to have something in common

with the speech and writing of patients

with schizophrenia.

David Beales, Kent

My favourite quote – possibly

apocryphal – is of Beckett going for a

walk in the country with a friend:

Beckett: It’s a lovely day.

Friend: Makes you glad to be alive.

Beckett: I wouldn’t go that far.

Mick James, London

Contemporary writers, many of

whom are more overwhelmingly

obsessed with fame and celebrity

while being largely less gifted,

can draw salutary lessons from

the ascetic, austere signature of

Beckett’s life, language and literature.

Idowu Omoyele, posted online

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 Kitty Empire on new albums

from Mabel and Ty Segall

 Clare Brennan on Rupert

Everett’s take on Uncle Vanya

 Fiona Maddocks at the Proms

 Catherine Slessor considers

what a Boris Johnson-led

government means for

housing in the UK

 Euan Ferguson on the

week’s TV

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