US newsThe mystery of Robert Wone's deathThree men stand accused of covering up the murder of the lawyer in a trial that has gripped WashingtonThe paramedics had seen a lot of corpses, but never one quite like this. Robert Wone's chest was carved open by three deep stab wounds. A bloodied knife lay on a side table. But the high-powered Washington lawyer's body was laid out neatly on a bed with his arms at his side.
Alan Hayashi checks on his strawberries at his farm in Oceano, California, in August. Photograph: Emanuel Hahn/The GuardianCalifornia families endured wartime incarceration and market changes to stay in business, but gen Z eyes life beyond the farm by Claire Wang in Arroyo Grande, CaliforniaAlan Hayashi’s 120-hectare (300-acre) farm is an unassuming pillar of Arroyo Grande, a city on California’s central coast that’s covered by rolling vineyards and ancient oaks. Two vast fields, partitioned by an inland stretch of Highway 1, produce white strawberries, squash, beets, celery and two dozen other crops.
Autobiography and memoirReviewA brilliant 'anti-memoir' of growing up in 1970s Scotland"All happy families resemble one another, each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way." I probably won't be the only reviewer of Janice Galloway's second volume of autobiography to fall back on Tolstoy's line from Anna Karenina, even though I'm not sure I believe it. There are almost certainly books to be written about happy, well-adjusted people just getting on with life, thriving with the help of love and support from all around them.
Master of mischief … Simon David.Master of mischief … Simon David.Lockdown cultureComedySimon David plays the frenzied host for a jolly hour of frivolity as an array of comics showcase the joys of mischief For this April Fools’ Day, comedian Simon David has become the April Fools Gay. That is, he dresses up in a baby blue onesie and jester’s hat, then presents his set before a backdrop of cut-out emojis. In an online fundraiser for the transgender support fund FiveforFive, David appears to prank various friends, his boyfriend and the authorities – resulting in the demise of his relationship and a hefty fine.
Observer book of the weekBiography booksReviewThe former NME star writer rewatches the films of the German director and writes hauntingly about the way our tastes and passions change over time A dream prospect. Rainer Werner Fassbinder, the short-lived, self-destructive wunderkind who made movies about love as masochism, pain as an inevitable condition and history as a dire weight upon his native Germany, has long been in need of an equally forthright celebration.