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In this week’s newsletter, Anthony Burgess (author of A Clockwork Orange) reviews the controversial bestseller The Holy Blood and the Holy Grail, which posits that the descendants of Christ exist in the European nobility.
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And our seventh shortlistee is...
Julia Clayton for their review of the 150th Anniversary Exhibition at The Atkinson
Well done, Julia. A massive thank-you to everyone for entering. A winner and two runners-up will be announced on 13 May 2026. 🏆 Top prize is £3000 and publication in The Observer.
The sixth of seven shortlistees for the 2026 Observer Burgess prize is...
Anais Lukaku for their review of the Lee Miller exhibition at Tate Britain
One of numerous Miller reviews we received in this year's competition, so extra well done to Anais.
Here is another writer who finds themselves on the shortlist for the 2026 Observer Anthony Burgess Prize for Arts Journalism. A huge well done to...
Stephen Smith for their review of the biography The Wonderful World that Almost Was: A Life of Peter Hujar and Paul Thek by Andrew Durbin
The next reveal for the 2026 Observer Burgess prize shortlist is (please provide your own drum roll)...
Amelia Moran for their review of the Marie Antoinette Style exhibition at V&A South Kensington
Congrats, Amelia. Four shortlistees announced, three more to go.
Time for the third shortlistee for the 2026 Observer Burgess Prize for Arts Journalism. Thanks to everyone for entering. We hope you are on tenterhooks.
Next up is...
No’a L. bat Miri for their review of Siri Broch Johansen’s opera Ovllá at Oulu2026. Well done!
We are revealing the shortlistees for the 2026 Observer Burgess prize. No particular order. Just closing our eyes and delving into our shortlist hat to reveal...
Ana Fati for their review of Shih-Ching Tsou’s film Left-Handed Girl. Congratulations, Ana!
Let's announce the shortlistees for the 2026 Observer Burgess prize. Over the next hour, we will reveal SEVEN names, in random order.
Our first shortlistee is... Ciarán O’Rourke for their review of Miguel Conner’s biography The Occult Elvis: The Mystical and Magical Life of the King
In this week’s newsletter, we explore Tremor of Intent, Anthony Burgess's espionage novel published in 1966. Why did Burgess take on spy fiction, and what’s it got to do with Ian Fleming and John Le Carré? Let’s look at the evidence…
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✍️ Elena Zeng for their review of The Wooden Prince, performed by London Philharmonic at the Southbank Centre
That's 30 names in all. Well done to every single writer. We will be in touch to offer our personal congratulations!
✍️ Flo Winkley for their review of Nan Goldin’s The Ballad of Sexual Dependency exhibition at Gagosian
✍️ Ben Wormald for their review of the Lord of the Flies television series directed by Marc Munden >
✍️ Ivana Troselj for their review of the cinematic screening of the opera The Name of the Rose by La Scala
✍️ Loïck Tyson for their review of the Lankum single Ghost Town
✍️ Akrivi Ventouras for their review of the Ivo Van Hove film All My Sons >
✍️ James Scargill for their review of Nordic Resonance performed by Renzo Spiteri and Richard Craig
✍️ Stephen Smith for their review of the biography The Wonderful World that Almost Was: A Life of Peter Hujar and Paul Thek by Andrew Durbin >
✍️ Ciarán O'Rourke for their review of Miguel Conner’s biography The Occult Elvis: The Mystical and Magical Life of the King
✍️ Amy Orr for their review of Gareth Edwards’ film Jurassic World: Rebirth
✍️ Henry Roberts for their review of Vincenzo Latronico’s novel Perfection >
✍️ Amelia Moran for their review of the Marie Antoinette Style exhibition at V&A South Kensington
✍️ Daniel Newsham for their review of Joseph Kosinski’s movie F1: The Movie >
✍️ Connor McLaughlin for their review of Team Cherry’s video game Hollow Knight: Silksong
✍️ No'a L. bat Miri for their review of Siri Broch Johansen’s opera Ovllá at Oulu2026
✍️ Fonie Mitsopoulou for their review of Ben Pester’s short story collection Sail Away Land >
✍️ Emma Roseanne Haughton for their review of Rainbow Waltz, performed by Vienna Philharmonic at Vienna’s New Year Celebration 2026
✍️ Martin Kudlac for their review of Yorgos Lanthimos’s film Bugonia
✍️ Anais Lukaku for their review of the Lee Miller exhibition at Tate Britain >
✍️ Barnabas Fletcher for their review of Jafar Panahi’s film It Was Just An Accident
✍️ Jason Greenwood for their review of Emerald Fennell's film Wuthering Heights
✍️ Alexa Hall for their review of the Dirty Looks: Desire and Decay in Fashion exhibition at The Barbican >
✍️ RW Chapman for their review of Rie Qudan’s novel Sympathy Tower Tokyo, translated by Jesse Kirkwood
✍️ Julia Clayton for their review of the 150th Anniversary Exhibition at The Atkinson
✍️ Ana Fati for their review of Shih-Ching Tsou’s film Left-Handed Girl >
✍️ Imogen Barnes for their review of the Naeem Mohaiemen film Through A Mirror, Darkly
✍️ Sabine Casparie for their review of Eva Helene Pade’s exhibition Søgelys at Thaddeus Ropac
✍️ Isabelle Castro for their review of Beeple's Regular Animals at Art Basel Miami Beach >
✍️ Feyi Adegbite for their review of the Wolfgang Tillmans exhibition Nothing could have prepared us – Everything could have prepared us at Centre Pompidou
✍️ Tien Albert for their review of the Slawn’s Studio exhibition at Saatchi Yates >
a show about grubby fashion, a Sámi-language opera, a Viennese New Year’s celebration and some boys on an island.
Here’s the full list. We’ll narrow this down to a shortlist on 14 April 2026. >
We are very excited to announce our longlist for the 2026 Observer Anthony Burgess Prize for Arts Journalism.
Congratulations to these excellent writers, whose subject matters included a cover of The Specials’ Ghost Town, an exhibition of autonomous robotic dogs, Brad Pitt racing motor cars, >
In this week’s newsletter, we round up April events happening at the Burgess Foundation, plus a preview of Robin Ince on tour and the performance of a new Anthony Burgess-inspired song cycle brought all the way from Canada.
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Great read by the Anthony Burgess Foundation on One Hand Clapping, which we reissued in February.
‘. . .one of his most successful satirical novels, animated by a witty and energetic first-person voice.’
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Anthony Burgess did A Shorter Ulysses too, which we have just published alongside his musical version Blooms of Dublin: galileopublishing.co.uk/a-shorter-ul...
On this week’s newsletter, we’re revisiting a strange comic novel Anthony Burgess was working on in the years immediately before A Clockwork Orange: One Hand Clapping. Find out why it is unlike most of his other work.
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