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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.

November 2024

  • Donald Trump smirks on stage with his palms in the air as Melania Trump looks on, smiling and clapping. Several US flags are draped behind them

    Digested week
    Digested week: Trump-voting trad wives and the fabulously monstrous Martha Stewart

    Emma Brockes
    Also this week, Bezos, Musk and Zuckerberg change their mailing address to Donald Trump’s Rectum
  • Supporters of Kamala Harris in New York react as Donald Trump surpassed the 270 Electoral College votes needed to win, 6 November 2024.

    Trump’s win is so much worse this time. Americans knew what they were voting for

    Emma Brockes
    Even after a failed coup and numerous legal wranglings, many men could not bring themselves to vote for a woman, says Guardian columnist Emma Brockes
  • Deborah Levy

    Deborah Levy: ‘A writer’s career is choppy – I was 50 when I found success’

    Her ‘living autobiographies’ and novels have earned her legions of fans, but that success was hard won. Deborah Levy talks about stamina, boldness, and finding delight in the details

October 2024

  • A cat in one of Amazon UK’s most popular Halloween pet costumes of 2023

    It’s my first Halloween in the UK for two decades – and my American children are not impressed

    Emma Brockes
  • Jonathan Coe.

    Novelist Jonathan Coe: ‘Liz Truss was very unimpressed to meet me’

  • Eminem on stage with Barack Obama at a Democratic campaign rally

    Digested week
    Digested week: Obama fan-boys Eminem, American Airlines gets tough on ‘gate lice’

    Emma Brockes
  • Donald Trump at a rally in Greensboro, North Carolina,  on 22 October.

    The word ‘fascist’ has lost all meaning. And Trump is using that to his advantage

    Emma Brockes
  • ‘Trump, the movie’ is a fun watch, but read the book if you really want to know all about him

    Emma Brockes
  • Digested week
    Digested week: ‘Just moving’? Tell that to Florida zookeepers

    Emma Brockes
  • Is Donald Trump the greatest grifter of them all? Melania is giving him a run for his money

    Emma Brockes
  • JD Vance is trying hard not to be weird – and it’s making him seem more menacing still

    Emma Brockes

September 2024

  • Keir Starmer kisses his wife at the Labour party conference

    Digested week
    Digested week: sausage surrealism and a bowlful of Doom Loops

    Emma Brockes
  • Kamala Harris and Doug Emhoff on 10 September 2024.

    God knows we need an antidote for all the lousy men in the news – and I think I’ve found one

    Emma Brockes
  • Huw Edwards leaves court after his sentencing.

    Huw Edwards, and the ludicrous arguments bad men make in defence of the indefensible

    Emma Brockes
  • The Prince and Princess of Wales hold hands as they sit on a blanket on a patch of grass

    Digested week
    Digested week: Awkward royals, ‘on the fence’ Trump voters and a crisp surprise

    Emma Brockes
  • Harris clearly beat Trump – not that you’d know it from the rightwing media. Shame on them

    Emma Brockes
  • Novelist Rumaan Alam: ‘A lot of people have secret money – it can make you crazy with envy’

  • Weekend
    Best of Weekend part 1: Julia Fox, are we to blame for our bad habits? And surviving a ship wreck – podcast

  • Kamala Harris is steering clear of Hillary Clinton’s feminist messaging – and it’s working

    Emma Brockes

August 2024

  • Gillian Anderson, with long blonde, layered hair, wearing a white dress with a fringed cut-out on one side, shot against a draped, pale peach coloured silky material

    ‘We’re not as open about sex as we imagine’: Gillian Anderson on pleasure, powerful women, and collecting secret fantasies

    When the actor asked women to share their erotic secrets for a new book, she found herself rethinking her own relationship with desire - and deciding to have more fun
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