Andrew Anthony
Features Writer at The Guardian
Writer at Freelance
Articles
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3 weeks ago |
observer.co.uk | Andrew Anthony
The university’s low-key leader is winning plaudits across academia by refusing to give in to White House threats and intimidation Back in April the influential New York Times conservative columnist David Brooks called for a mass movement of resistance against Donald Trump’s rule-by-decree which, he said, was “shackling the greatest institutions in American life”. All movements require leaders, and, although Brooks didn’t mention any names, an unlikely candidate has emerged in recent weeks.
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4 weeks ago |
observer.co.uk | Andrew Anthony
Where you go from the top is a question that very few writers ever have to confront. The typical struggle is all about trying to get there, attempting to do something that is original, memorable, critically acclaimed and commercially profitable. What happens afterwards is, in nearly all cases, deliriously notional, because that kind of overarching success is so seldom realised.
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1 month ago |
observer.co.uk | Andrew Anthony
Criminals are targeting lonely people for financial gain. Meet the heartbroken victims Photographs by Eliza BournerI was married for 23 years, I’m a widow, I’m in my 60s, I was university educated, I’ve lived abroad, I’ve had various boyfriends and lots of lovers,” says the actor and writer Mary Chater, by way of explaining that she was not exactly born yesterday.
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2 months ago |
observer.co.uk | Andrew Anthony
Philosopher and writer who challenged ‘Heart of Darkness’ cliches about the continent of Africa His father had hopes his son, Valentin-Yves Mudimbe, would become a manager at the mining company where he worked, but the young boy was a conspicuously cerebral child, what he called a “small, gifted dog”. He was born on 8 December 1941 in the Swahili-speaking mining town Jadotville (now Likasi) in the then Belgian Congo, arguably the most brutalised of all colonies in Africa.
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2 months ago |
nzherald.co.nz | Andrew Anthony
The British Museum: No longer a safe place for the world’s treasures. Photo / Getty ImagesOpinion by Andrew AnthonyAndrew Anthony is an Observer writer and is married to a New ZealanderLearn more Recently, I drove down to Hastings, the small town on the south coast best known as the location, almost 1000 years ago, of the last battle fought by an invading force on English soil.
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