@ObsNewReview December 11, 2022 – Those we lost in 2022:

• Robbie Coltrane remembered by Miriam Margolyes
• Norma Waterson by @RichardHawley
• André Leon Talley by @NaomiCampbell
• Jamal Edwards by @professorgreen
• Cherry Valentine by @biminibabes
• Pharoah Sanders by @KamasiW
• & more @misskatiepeters

Hilma af Klint: A Biography by Julia Voss review – portrait of the painter as a mystic

The Swedish abstract artist who conversed with the dead is described as a woman years ahead of her time in this scholarly, sympathetic study

My Life in Sea Creatures by Sabrina Imbler review – the joys of jellyfish, sturgeon and whales

The gifted science writer’s lyrical collection doesn’t always flow smoothly between reverie and fact, but remains intriguing