June 2004: Here we present some key images of mourners after the death of Ronald Reagan, the former US president. A 'great man' Former world leaders Margaret Thatcher and Mikhail Gorbachev at Ronald Reagan's funeral. A videotaped tribute from Mrs Thatcher, who no longer speaks in public because of health reasons, opened the readings. He was a great president and a great man, she said. Photograph: AP   Last goodbyes

Book of the dayElif ShafakReviewA tale of love and division moves between postcolonial Cyprus and London, exploring themes of generational trauma and belonging “The feeling of being ‘in between things’ is good for [writers],” said Elif Shafak in a 2014 interview. This delight in liminal spaces forms the bedrock of her 12th novel, which charts the moving story of Kostas and Defne Kazantzakis, young lovers in a painfully divided postcolonial Cyprus – one Greek and Christian, the other Turkish and Muslim – and the emotional price they continue to pay after moving to England.

CitiesConstruction of the Belo Monte dam has cast men, women and children who lived rich lives along the Xingu River to the outskirts of Altamira, Brazil’s most violent city. Here, to the sound of gunfire, they must live behind barred windows, and buy food with money they’ve never had – or needed before Antonio das Chagas and Dulcineia Dias had an island. A slice of the Amazon rainforest, on the Xingu River.

Observer New Review Q&AAutobiography and memoirInterviewYeonmi Park: ‘I hope my book will shine a light on the darkest place in the world’Alex PrestonThe North Korean defector on her harrowing memoir, her deep-rooted fear of hunger and learning to trust men Yeonmi Park was born in the North Korean city of Hyesan, close to the Chinese border, and brought up in the brutal and paranoid atmosphere of the Kim dictatorships. Aged 13, she and her mother braved the frontier guards and fled to China.

A natural life-enhancer … Rory Kinnear as Marx, Oliver Chris as Engels, Nancy Carroll as Jenny, and Harriet and Rupert Turnbull as the Marx children. Photograph: Manuel HarlanA natural life-enhancer … Rory Kinnear as Marx, Oliver Chris as Engels, Nancy Carroll as Jenny, and Harriet and Rupert Turnbull as the Marx children. Photograph: Manuel HarlanTheatreReviewThe Bridge, London London’s first commercial theatre for 80 years opens with a pugnacious comedy about the early days of the political visionary – and shameless sponger Given the abundance of theatre in London, is the opening of this new playhouse a Bridge too far?