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Emma Brockes

Emma Brockes is a Guardian columnist based in New York. She is the author of She Left Me The Gun: My Mother's Life Before Me.

April 2025

  • Barista serving coffee in a takeaway paper cup

    It’s the economic end times, so obviously I’m thinking about my takeaway coffee

    Emma Brockes
    The true scale of what’s happening is hard to grasp, so our irrational brains reach for measly acts of self-denial, says Guardian columnist Emma Brockes
  • Graydon Carter and Joan Collins during the 2006 Vanity Fair Oscar party.

    Book of the day
    When the Going Was Good by Graydon Carter review – juicy stories from the heydey of magazines

    From Anna Wintour’s table manners to Oscar party hijinks, the former editor of Vanity Fair tells all
  • Cory Booker gives his record-breaking speech in the US senate on 31 March 2025.

    After months of surrender, the Democrats have finally stood up to Trump – thank you, Cory Booker

    Emma Brockes
    Watching the New Jersey senator hold court for 25 hours felt radical and cathartic, says Guardian columnist Emma Brockes

March 2025

  • Hallie Rubenhold.

    The Five author Hallie Rubenhold: ‘I really hate true crime’

  • Street scene with person sitting on bench below poster of Musk standing on car giving apparent Nazi-style salute with a couple of other people to left and a parked vehicle

    Digested week
    Digested week: I agree with Jeremy Clarkson – my enemy’s enemy is still kind of a jerk

    Emma Brockes
  • Mike Waltz, left, speaks with Pete Hegseth at the White House, 24 February 2025.

    Let’s put it in language the Signal leakers will understand: what a bunch of pathetic sleazebags

    Emma Brockes
  • Headshot of actor Seth Rogen, in brown jacket against beige background

    Seth Rogen on going from onscreen slacker to studio boss: ‘People really do scream at each other in Hollywood’

  • Weekend
    Seth Rogen: slacker to studio boss; Marina Hyde on Trump making anywhere but America great again; and Philippa Perry helps with imposter syndrome – podcast

  • How would I survive the apocalypse? By stocking up on the key item most preppers forget

    Emma Brockes

  • Digested week
    Digested week: Tesla shares tumble as Trump crashes the markets

    Emma Brockes

  • Lean In, said Sheryl Sandberg – but after this week, can we ever see her or Facebook in the same light again?

    Emma Brockes

  • The main Oscars takeaway? Hollywood is as scared of the world right now as you and I are

    Emma Brockes

February 2025

  • A protester holding a Musk Doge prohibited sign

    Digested week
    Digested week: Musk’s grinding disrespect for workers is depressingly familiar

    Emma Brockes
  • The Can’t Get Knafeh Of It chocolate bar, AKA Dubai chocolate, with pistachio and knafeh.

    Everyone has gone nuts for pistachios. But they’re just an upmarket green peanut, aren’t they?

    Emma Brockes
  • With Love, Meghan. (L to R) Meghan, Duchess of Sussex, Mindy Kaling in episode 102 of With Love, Meghan. Cr. Courtesy of Netflix © 2024

    Meghan’s rebranded herself – and it’s another valiant attempt to flog poshness to the little people

    Emma Brockes
  • Jolie open-mouthed apparently responding to a reporter with microphone

    Digested week
    Digested week: Labour politicians’ loose talk part of longstanding tradition

    Emma Brockes

  • If you thought Elon Musk was bad, look at his dreadful mini-mes and shudder for America

    Emma Brockes

  • I haven’t banned screen time for my kids – I’ve introduced binge-watching instead

    Emma Brockes

January 2025

  • Robert F Kennedy Jr and Caroline Kennedy.

    Digested week
    Digested week: Caroline Kennedy swoops on RFK Jr with talons out

    Emma Brockes
  • This image released by Netflix shows Selena Gomez in a scene from "Emilia Pérez." (Shanna Besson/Netflix via AP)

    Selena Gomez fell prey to Trump-trashing one-upmanship: the game no one can win

    Emma Brockes
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