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Emma Brockes

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37 hours ago

Digested week: Minor quake hits book lauding bits of Robert F Kennedy Jr’s chest | Emma Brockes

Defenders rally to Olivia Nuzzi amid book mockery, while rakish David Dimbleby channels his inner Dickens

It’s publication week for American Canto, the hastily turned around memoir by the former New Y…

2 days ago

Watch Simon Cowell’s TV search for a new boyband – and see how our world has changed | Emma Brockes

Twenty years on, the social media-savvy contestants will have greater power. His brutal approach to judging them will have to change, too

There is a moment in the trailer for Simon Cowell’s new Netfli…

10 days ago

At last, TV about influencers that isn’t cringe – I Love LA is my show of the year | Emma Brockes ⊕⊕

It gets into its twentysomething characters’ heads in a way that’s fresh and real. You either get it, or you don’t

It’s been a while since a TV show came along that people leaned into losing their min…

24 days ago

Celebrating literature is good – but I’m running out of patience with celebrity book clubs | Emma Brockes ⊕⊕

Sarah Jessica Parker swept all before her at the Booker prize ceremony, but is fame the best way to encourage reading?

In these turbulent times, we take small joys where we can find them. And this wee…

38 days ago

Trump is often angry but rarely hurt – yet Canada has managed to pull it off | Emma Brockes

Why has an ad quoting Ronald Reagan’s criticism of tariffs triggered such a reaction from the president?

One difficulty of a presidency as volatile as Donald Trump’s is separating what makes him angry…

45 days ago

Big? Beautiful? Donald Trump is literally ripping apart the home of US democracy. Is anyone really surprised? | Emma Brockes

Demolition work has begun on part of the White House’s East Wing to make way for the president’s ballroom. Truly, these are post-satirical times

Occasionally, life gives you scenarios that are so on t…

58 days ago

I never thought I'd say this, but I now understand the appeal of home schooling | Emma Brockes

More and more parents in England are opting their kids out of the education system. I could never do it, but ‘wellbeing days’ do sound nice

If you want to get rich, a friend of mine said recently, set…

73 days ago

Elizabeth Gilbert’s memoir has raised eyebrows – but she always comes out on top | Emma Brockes

A new tale from the longtime purveyor of self-love is both horrific and poorly done, and nobody’s sure how to respond

If you are someone who reads multiple news sources a day, a fun way to occasionall…

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