It was always about land: film-maker Raoul Peck on his infuriating new documentary
Documentary filmsThe Oscar-nominated director tackles a shocking case of black land disposession in his acclaimed new film Silver Dollar Road
To the naked eye, Silver Dollar Road is a lush strip of pavement on a coastal flat, leading south to tidewater shoreline near Beaufort, North Carolina. The land teems with katydid choruses, the water with shrimp – enough for several members of the Reels family to make a living as fisherman, their boats dotting the sandy shore.
Story of a Secret State: My Report to the World by Jan Karski review
The ObserverHistory booksReviewWritten as a cry for help from Nazi-occupied Poland, Jan Karski's wartime memoir now tragically reads like a 40s espionage thrillerWhen Jan Karski first published his chronicle of Polish resistance to the Nazis in 1944, all he hoped for was to ensure that Churchill and Roosevelt did not forget oppressed Poland. Apart from a tormenting interlude in a Gestapo prison, Karski had spent the years since 1939 crisscrossing Europe as a courier for the underground; he witnessed casual genocide in the Warsaw ghetto, and was smuggled into a concentration camp dressed as an Estonian guard to watch Jews being herded into railway carriages that were coated in advance with quicklime, which (he claims) corroded their flesh and ate them alive – an inexpensive prescription for mass murder, conserving precious canisters of Zyklon B.
The 100 best novels: No 27 The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde (1891)
The 100 best novelsOscar WildeWilde's brilliantly allusive moral tale of youth, beauty and corruption was greeted with howls of protest on publication Robert McCrum introduces the series
Of all the books in this series, Oscar Wilde's only novel enjoyed by far the worst reception on its publication. The reviews were dreadful, the sales poor, and it was not until many years after Wilde's death that this remarkable work of imagination was recognised as a classic.
The life and death of Homaro Cantu, the genius chef who wanted to change the world | Food
The Cuban Missile Crisis, from Moto: The Cookbook. Photograph: Amy StallardHow a homeless child grew up to become the most inventive chef in history
by Kieran MorrisBetween 2004 and 2016, the most inventive food on the planet, possibly in history, came out of a small restaurant in downtown Chicago. At Moto, your first course was your menu itself, which was typically printed in edible ink on a giant tortilla chip. When you finished your menu, you would be handed what looked like a Polaroid of a maki roll.
Tuesday briefing: Why the former Brazil president is responsible for the riots | Brazil
First EditionBrazil This article is more than 1 year oldTuesday briefing: Why the former Brazil president is responsible for the riotsThis article is more than 1 year oldIn today’s newsletter: For years Jair Bolsonaro set the anti-democratic tone that fomented Sunday’s attacks. Our Latin America correspondent explains how
Sign up here for our daily newsletter, First Edition Good morning. Almost exactly two years after the January 6 Capitol attack in the United States, Brazil has seen a far-right coup attempt of its own.
UK cold snap to continue with snow and ice descending from north Scotland | UK weather
UK weatherUK cold snap to continue with snow and ice descending from north ScotlandMet Office warns of travel disruption in Scotland as arctic winds and snow showers move inland from northern coasts
The cold snap will continue across most of Britain throughout Sunday and into early next week, with warnings of potential travel disruption in Scotland.
The Met Office has put in place yellow weather warnings of snow and ice for much of the north of Scotland throughout Sunday and Monday.
When Hugo Snchez hit 38 goals for Real Madrid all with his first touch
Hugo Sánchez outside the Bernabéu in 1989. Photograph: Getty ImagesHugo Sánchez outside the Bernabéu in 1989. Photograph: Getty ImagesThe football mineReal MadridErling Haaland is deadly for Manchester City, but Real Madrid once had a striker who took brutal efficiency to another level
By Richard Foster for The Football Mine
Erling Haaland’s emphatic header against Everton was his 36th goal in the league this season, the highest in the top flight since Southampton striker Ron Davies scored 37 in 1966-67.
Buried treasures | Higher education
Higher educationBuried treasuresIn the first of a series of reports from Channel 4 Time Team's Big Roman Dig, Matt Reynolds reports on the opening of new trenches at Dinnington and the first archaeological findsTime Team's mammoth week of live archaeological excavations kicks off with the opening of new trenches at Dinnington, Somerset, the home of a huge Roman villa and the hub of the Big Roman Dig.
In an exercise investigating aspects of Roman life across the country, Time Team is going to be looking at towns, villas, temples and military complexes; nothing short of a national evaluation and appraisal of Roman Britain.
I dont know why our boobs are so frightening: why musicians in Spain are going topless as a
Music This article is more than 5 months oldThis article is more than 5 months oldSinger Eva Amaral this week created headlines by baring her chest at a festival, joining a string of other artists asserting this freedom in the name of defending women’s rights
In the middle of her performance at the Sonorama festival in the northern Spanish town of Aranda de Duero on Saturday, Eva Amaral was about to lead her band Amaral into her song Revolución when she took off her red sequin top and threw it on the floor.
Keely Smith obituary | Jazz
JazzObituaryKeely Smith obituaryAmerican singer who, with her husband Louis Prima, was part of the most successful Las Vegas lounge act of the 1950sStanding to one side, her impassive basilisk stare part of the act, the singer Keely Smith, who has died aged 89, excelled as the onstage foil to her extrovert husband, the trumpeter-vocalist Louis Prima. Where Prima was manic, cavorting around the stage, singing with gusto and playing hot jazz trumpet, Smith was the epitome of cool, her vocals like a balm amid all the mayhem.