BooksA new book about Emily Weiss’s billion-dollar beauty company depicts ‘a really brilliant visionary’ who was also ‘oblivious and out for herself’ In the spring of 2019, I sometimes found myself transfixed by the corner of Canal and Lafayette streets in Soho, either marveling at a line of people or in it. This was the New York headquarters of Glossier, the makeup brand of the millennial pink zeitgeist. Founded by Emily Weiss in 2014 with just four products, Glossier was – and, to an extent, still is – the purveyor of minimalist makeup in the 2010s: crisp sans serif advertising, direct-to-consumer delivery (in distinctive pink bubble packaging), a model of goddess-like, preternatural dewiness.

The ObserverThe OpenThis second extract from a new book, Tom Morris of St Andrews, The Colossus of Golf, recalls the rapid descent of a golfing hero after the terrible loss of his wife and childThere was no Open Championship in 1871, because of the death of one of its biggest supporters and lack of an organiser, and when it was staged again in 1872 Tommy won it for a fourth successive time, a feat never since matched.

US unions This article is more than 2 months oldAmazon’s first delivery workers to unionize were later fired – now they’re striking at warehousesThis article is more than 2 months oldThe online retail giant has terminated its contract with a California delivery contractor and denies it is the drivers’ joint employer Drivers from an Amazon delivery station in California have been on strike since 24 June, and have taken their strike to picket lines at over 20 Amazon warehouses around the US, including Amazon facilities in New York, Georgia, Maryland, Michigan, Massachusetts, New Jersey and Connecticut.

World newsPastor who dissolved corpses of slain wives and children gets lifeAn elderly Hungarian émigré dubbed "the diabolical pastor" by the Belgian media was sentenced to life imprisonment yesterday after being found guilty of murdering his first two wives and four of his eight children. In an unusually brutal case which has transfixed Belgium and shocked investigators, a Brussels court found Andras Pandy, 74, guilty of six counts of premeditated murder and concluded that he had also raped three of his daughters.

The best albums of 2016: the full list Best music of 2016 The best albums of 2016: the full list Our countdown of Guardian music’s favourite albums of the year is complete, topped by a jaw-dropping work of passion and originality • More best culture of 2016 • What was your album of the year for 2016? Wed 30 Nov 2016 07.30 GMT Last modified on Mon 3 Dec 2018 15.