The last time I thought much about
abiogenesis, I had a hard time finding good (recent) review articles to summarize things, and
relied on the NYT. The past few years have provided many breakthroughs,
summarized by Hazen and others. This month's
Nature Chemistry has
an entire section devoted to the subject. It
calls the Grand Challenge of chemistry explaining the emergence of life, similar to a Theory of Everything in physics.