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Emma Brockes

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

June 2026

  • Luke Evans, left, and Josh Rivera in a performance of The Rocky Horror Show in New York.

    Digested week
    double quotation markDigested week: a hen party at the Rocky Horror Show ruffles a few feathers

    Emma Brockes
  • Belle Burden with her then-husband, Henry Davis, at a gala event at Cipriani, New York, 16 September 2008.

    double quotation markBelle Burden’s divorce memoir was headed for a Salt Path-style scandal – but people are still on her side

    Emma Brockes

May 2026

  • The Naked Cowboy plays guitar in an empty Times Square plaza

    Digested week
    double quotation markDigested week: memories of Covid resurface with hantavirus and Ebola news

    Emma Brockes
  • Stephen Sondheim - American Composer And LyricistStephen Sondheim, American composer and lyricist, 30th November 2000. (Photo by Eamonn McCabe/Popperfoto via Getty Images)

    Book of the day
    Stephen Sondheim by Daniel Okrent review – a superb biography of the musical master

  • Kylie Minogue at Glastonbury, 30 June 2019.

    double quotation markI didn’t think it was possible to love Kylie Minogue any more – her new Netflix series changed that

    Emma Brockes
  • Secretaries Kennedy And Rollins Celebrate Implementation Of New Dietary GuidelinesWASHINGTON, DC - FEBRUARY 11: Film director Brett Ratner speaks during an event to "Celebrate the Implementation of the Dietary Guidelines for Americans" at the Health and Human Services Headquarters on February 11, 2026 in Washington, DC. HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. celebrated the updated guidelines with Agriculture Secretary Brooke Rollins, former boxing heavyweight champion Mike Tyson, U.S. Chief Design Officer Joe Gebbia, American Medical Association President Bobby Mukkamala, Chef Andrew Gruel, Defense Department Undersecretary Mike Obadal, and Bureau of Prisons Director William Marshall. (Photo by Michael M. Santiago/Getty Images)

    double quotation markWhat to make of Brett Ratner’s diplomatic visit to China? Trump is trolling us all

    Emma Brockes

  • ‘There was a lot of addiction and trauma in my family’: why Drag Race winner Jinkx Monsoon plays a perfect Judy Garland

  • Digested week
    double quotation markDigested week: It’s Met Gala in New York – and I’m thinking about who didn’t attend

    Emma Brockes

  • double quotation markMy kids are taking their first big exams – and revealing my own anxieties about AI and long division

    Emma Brockes

April 2026

  • Charlize Theron as Sasha in the Netflix film Apex.

    double quotation markCreaky knees be damned – Charlize Theron is showing us what’s possible at 50

    Emma Brockes
  • The University of Georgia women's tennis team posing behind Donald Trump and administration officials.

    Digested week
    double quotation markDigested week: Iranian embassy trolls the most ‘powerfool’ man on the planet

    Emma Brockes
  • Donald Trump holds a Bible outside St John's Church near the White House in June 2020.

    double quotation markWith his Bible readings, Trump is doubling down on his God complex. Somehow, evangelical Christians are buying it

    Emma Brockes
  • Justin Trudeau and Katy Perry at Coachella

    double quotation markJustin Trudeau at Coachella? That’s just wrong: at a certain age, things must change

    Emma Brockes

  • ‘I got everything I dreamed of – when I had no ability to handle it’: Lena Dunham on toxic fame, broken friendships and her ‘lost decade’

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    double quotation markDigested week: NeeDohs, Knox and news from the far side of the moon

    Emma Brockes

  • double quotation markIt’s finally happened: I’m now worried about AI. And consulting ChatGPT did nothing to allay my fears

    Emma Brockes

March 2026

  • King Charles and Queen Camilla cut a cake during a visit to the Eden Project

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    double quotation markDigested week: Garrick Club confirms an actual woman has joined – the queen

    Emma Brockes
  • Brooklyn Daily Eagle Front PageTop half of the front page of the newspaper Brooklyn Daily Eagle has banner headline reading 'Wall St. In Panic As Stocks Crash' which describes the massive fall in stock value on what became known as Black Thursday, October 24, 1929. The stock market crash is often considered the starting point of the Great Depression of 1929 - 1941. Other headlines recount an attempt to kill Italian Crown Prince Umberto (1904 - 1983) (left) and a campaign finance scandal concerning American industrialist and later senator Joseph R. Grundy (1863 - 1961) (right). (Photo by FPG/Getty Images)

    double quotation markHow to survive our doomed times? Both the experts and I have the same advice

    Emma Brockes
  • US defence secretary Pete Hegseth takes questions on US military action in Iran at the Pentagon on 2 March 2026.

    double quotation markIs anyone as ill-suited for great office as Donald Trump? Yes, Pete Hegseth – that’s why Potus likes him

    Emma Brockes
  • Chalamet smiling as he listens with his hand on an earpiece

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    double quotation markDigested week: Geopolitics and package holidays collide, and Chalamet goes too far

    Emma Brockes
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