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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.

June 2024

  • Rupert Murdoch and Elena Zhukova pose for a photo holding drinks on a white sofa

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

    Emma Brockes
  • Donald Trump at his Mar-a-Lago estate in Florida, 5 June 2024.

    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

  • Cardboard boxes of Big Macs on a silver platter

    Digested week
    Digested week: Trump’s McDonald’s bill is big, but its prices have ballooned

    Emma Brockes
  • Heritage Foundation: Former Prime Minister Liz Truss on Fighting the Global Left

    Fair to say America isn’t gripped by Liz Trussmania. Here’s what she can learn from Mr Bean

    Emma Brockes
  • Kirsten Dunst in a scene from Civil War.

    The America depicted in Civil War is not half as alarming as the real one

    Emma Brockes

  • Digested week
    Digested week: dull quake anecdotes and a boring eclipse of the sun

    Emma Brockes

  • Joe Biden has gained an inch in the polls – and Democrats are jubilant

    Emma Brockes

  • Digested week
    Digested week: these fallback French hot cross buns are quite wrong

    Emma Brockes

  • It’s that spring cleaning moment, when you open the wardrobe and your past fashion lives flash by

    Emma Brockes

March 2024

  • Flowers, cards, notes, and drawings lie next to an oak tree in New York City’s Central Park as a memorial site for Flaco the owl.

    Digested week
    Digested week: New Yorkers mourn death of Flaco, America’s first ‘celebrity owl’

    Emma Brockes
    Reaction to beloved bird’s demise typifies eccentricity and warmth of the city

February 2024

  • A young woman smiling and leaning against a door frame, while speaking into her phone.

    To my horror, gen X is turning to voice notes – I don’t want to hear your mini-podcast

    Emma Brockes
  • US-virus-health-epidemic<br>An ambulance drives by Brigham and Women's Hospital, part of it will be a coronavirus, COVID-19, testing site, in Boston, Massachusetts on March 7, 2020. - 60 hotel guests who attended a Biogen conference were taken to be tested for coronavirus at Brigham and Women's Hospital the day earlier. The virus has now killed more than 3,450 people and infected more than 100,000 across 92 nations since the outbreak first emerged in China in December. Over 3,000 of those deaths have been in China. (Photo by Joseph Prezioso / AFP) (Photo by JOSEPH PREZIOSO/AFP via Getty Images)

    I’m in awful pain, on a morphine drip – and still I’m thinking about the cost. This is US healthcare after all

    Emma Brockes
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