‘Marriage feels like a hostage situation, and motherhood a curse’: Japanese author Sayaka Murata
Lisa Allardice
The Guardian
April 19, 2025
Books
The Convenience Store Woman author is renowned for challenging social norms in darkly weird near-future fiction. She discusses sex, feminism and her struggles to be an ‘ordinary earthling’
How to make flourless chocolate cake – recipe
Felicity Cloake
The Guardian
April 19, 2025
Food
A chocolatey after-dinner Easter treat that treads the line between a cake and a mousse
US chocolate prices surge amid soaring cocoa costs and tariffs
Lauren Aratani in New York
The Guardian
April 19, 2025
Business
Price of cocoa – chocolate’s key ingredient – has climbed over past year and tariffs on imports will keep prices high
‘Hitler’s hatred of the scientist had intensified. There was a price on his head’: the tragic story of Robert Einstein, Albert’s cousin
Thomas Harding
The Guardian
April 19, 2025
Life and style
After the famous physicist fled Germany in 1933, his cousin Robert moved his family to Italy, where they thought they had found safety. Then, the day before liberation, Nazis smashed down their front door …
The devastating legacy of Native boarding schools: ‘no way people can apologize it away’
Martin Pengelly in Washington
theguardian.com
April 19, 2025
Books
Mary Annette Pember’s expansive book Medicine River looks at the many ways the US has tried to dehumanise and eradicate Native families
Cutting business ties with China would be ‘foolish’, Reeves says amid reports of US pressure
Harry Taylor
theguardian.com
April 19, 2025
Politics
Chancellor supports economic ties with Beijing as she prepares to fly to US next week for trade deal talks
English National Ballet: The Forsythe Programme review – infectious pleasure
Sarah Crompton
The Observer
April 19, 2025
Stage
A triple bill of works by William Forsythe show ENB’s dancers at their roof-raising best
‘This trick is incredibly risky for him’: Ankit Ghosh’s best phone picture
Grace Holliday
The Guardian
April 19, 2025
Life and style
The Indian photographer captures his neighbour breathing fire at the finale of a major Hindu festival
There are fewer children in England’s primary schools. That’s no reason to strip funding from them
Lola Okolosie
theguardian.com
April 19, 2025
Opinion
Across the country, there’s a demographic shift. This is a chance to reinvest in our threadbare education system, says Lola Okolosie, an English teacher and writer
‘Has the texture of feta, but not much else’: the best (and worst) supermarket feta, tested
Georgina Hayden
The Guardian
April 19, 2025
The Filter
Which feta has the required salty tang, and whose leaves a sour taste in the mouth? Feta fanatic Georgina Hayden tastes and rates 10 supermarket staples