In brief: Lily: A Tale of Revenge; On Getting Better; The Walker – review
Rose Tremain powerfully evokes Victorian London in her story of an abandoned orphan; Adam Phillips ponders the meaning of change; and Matthew Beaumont follows in the footsteps of literary city explorers
April 2021
On Wanting to Change review – an inspiring vision of psychoanalysis
Conversation rather than conversion is vital in the consulting room – is that the same for politics?
July 2019
Books interview
Psychoanalyst Adam Phillips: ‘You have to let your child teach you’
The analyst and literary critic on why attention-seeking is a good thing
August 2018
Further reading
Salley Vickers picks the best books about family dynamics
Struggling to understand your relatives this bank holiday weekend? The novelist picks her favourite books, from Mansfield Park to Cold Comfort Farm
June 2017
Book of the day
In Writing by Adam Phillips review – the psychoanalyst as unreliable narrator
Adam Phillips’s diverse, probing essays on writers and writing are like ‘little gatherings of like minds’
October 2016
The best original photographs from the Observer
Original Observer photography: October 2016
Observer New Review Q&A
Adam Phillips: ‘Taste is problematic when it is a militant and aggressive narrowing of the mind’
