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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.

July 2024

  • Kari Lake at the microphone against backdrop of a sign saying: RNC 2024 Milwaukee

    Digested week
    Digested week: the nice blond lady from England delivers

    Emma Brockes
    A Republican falls victim to Emily Maitlis, the mayor of Paris dips her toe in the Seine, and a yearning for summer rain
  • Republican National Convention in the United States<br>epa11482842 Republican presidential nominee and former President Donald Trump (L), and his vice presidential running mate Senator JD Vance (R) attend the second day of the Republican National Convention (RNC) at Fiserv Forum in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, USA, 16 July 2024. The convention comes days after a 20-year-old Pennsylvania man attempted to assassinate former President and current Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump. The 2024 Republican National Convention is being held 15 to 18 July 2024 in which delegates of the United States’ Republican Party select the party's nominees for president and vice president in the 2024 United States presidential election. EPA/JUSTIN LANE

    A gleeful Trump, delegates in tribute bandages: it’s hard to tear your eyes away from the Republican convention

    Emma Brockes
    So this is what it feels like, the presidential hopeful must be telling himself, to be admired, praised and respected, says Guardian columnist Emma Brockes
    • There’s a ‘trash revolution’ in New York – exciting for everyone but the rats

      Emma Brockes
    • Digested week
      Digested week: Biden’s travails and why the UK election isn’t big news in the US

      Emma Brockes
    • Who can we blame for Joe Biden’s gamble? Angry Democrats are starting to point the finger

      Emma Brockes

June 2024

  • Anita Desai

    Anita Desai: ‘After I left India, I had to train myself to express my opinions’

  • Joe Biden at the US presidential debate in Atlanta, Georgia on 27 June.

    The only silver lining to Biden’s painful performance? US voters had already made up their minds

    Emma Brockes
  • Black and white image of Stephen Sondheim sitting on a sofa with legs crossed propping his head up on his arm

    Digested week
    Digested week: Sondheim’s old pencils, dogs in prams and Christ on a bike

    Emma Brockes
  • Trump and Biden

    The question isn’t whether Trump or Biden is declining faster: it’s why the US is faced with this choice

    Emma Brockes
  • Trump was hoping for a slam dunk. But Hunter Biden’s trial has only highlighted his father Joe’s dignity

    Emma Brockes
  • Digested week
    Digested week: Murdoch goes soppy (again) and UK leaders get awkward

    Emma Brockes
  • Compared with the dark saga of Donald Trump, British politics looks like Beatrix Potter

    Emma Brockes

May 2024

  • Steel workers at the RCA building in Rockefeller Center in New York, 1932.

    They say the lunch break is dying – but don’t give up your hour of freedom

    Emma Brockes
  • A coiled rattlesnake on dry grass

    Digested week
    Digested week: Snakes alive! Depardieu smacks snapper while Sunak slips up

    Emma Brockes
  • Taiwan pearl milk tea with bubble at ximending in Taipei, Taiwan.<br>2AFJYPW Taiwan pearl milk tea with bubble at ximending in Taipei, Taiwan.

    Bubble tea is expensive, sugary and, as my kids have discovered, causing tween warfare

    Emma Brockes
  • BESTPIX - Former President Donald Trump's Hush Money Trial Continues In New York<br>*** BESTPIX *** NEW YORK, NEW YORK - MAY 14: Former Donald Trump attorney Michael Cohen departs from his home to attend his second day of testimony at Manhattan Criminal Court on May 14, 2024 in New York City. Former U.S. President Donald Trump faces 34 felony counts of falsifying business records in the first of his criminal cases to go to trial. (Photo by David Dee Delgado/Getty Images)

    It’s not pivotal that if the Donald is convicted Michael Cohen can sell his ‘Trump in jail’ T-shirts – but it’s not nothing

    Emma Brockes
  • Digested week
    Digested week: Kim Kardashian’s corset, dated insults – and a fuss at the Garrick

    Emma Brockes
  • Mockery, low tactics, sexist tropes: gloriously, Stormy Daniels is repaying Donald Trump in kind

    Emma Brockes
  • Does shooting her puppy rule out Kristi Noem as Trump’s running mate? Don’t bet on it

    Emma Brockes

April 2024

  • Gillian Slovo.

    ‘I was brought up among giants’: Gillian Slovo on her revolutionary parents – and her mother’s murder

    As she takes the words of Grenfell Tower fire survivors to the New York stage, the playwright talks about being drawn to painful subjects, and the disaster’s worldwide relevance
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