Vanity Fair
Saint Joan and saucy Eve: a single woman split in two
The relationship between Joan Didion and Eve Babitz is memorably captured in Lily Anolik’s red-hot, propulsive portrait of two warring writers who were once close friends
Even the Oscars after-parties have lost their shine
Reading about the Oscars this week, I couldn’t help thinking back to a time when they actually meant something. When…
Petronella Wyatt: I’ve been turned into a curiosity – and Boris is to blame
I am beginning to feel like a sort of fairground curiosity: one of those pickled things in jars that Victorians…
What do #MeToo women feel about downtrodden husbands?
Eight years ago, in the course of doing some research into literacy teaching in London, I visited many primary schools.…
Bad news for fans of good TV drama – there’s three more corkers to keep up with
This week was bad news for fans of good television drama series — mainly because there’s now three more of…
The subtle art of showing off at work
This has been an interesting year for me. Back in January, I took up a full-time job as director of…
Cultured — and combative — criticism from America
Four years after his death, it is still faintly surprising to recall that Christopher Hitchens is no longer resident on…
President Obama’s ‘secret’ lunch was no secret to me
The Metropolitan Club in Washington is so close to the White House that President Obama chose to walk there for…
I’d move to Kosovo if Ed Miliband became prime minister
If any of you sees Graydon Carter, the editor of Vanity Fair, walking around with a begging bowl in his…
Melissa Kite comes out fighting. Again
Madison Flight is a divorce lawyer, nicknamed ‘the Chair-Scraper’ for the number of times she leaps to her feet arguing…
Those ancient Greeks were bores — but things are looking up
Thick snow is falling hard and heavy, muffling sounds and turning the picturesque village postcard beautiful. I am lying in…
Why don’t any of the sisterhood take up the banner of poor Noor Hussain’s wife?
New York Here’s a question for you loyal readers: if a hubby asks his wife to cook him a hearty…
Chasing Pulitzers has ruined American journalists. That’s why they're edited by Brits
I was interested to read a story by Michael Wolff in USA Today saying that Graydon Carter may be about…
Lessons from Tina Brown on the art of failing upwards
Shortly after I started working at Vanity Fair in the mid-1990s, I suggested to my boss Graydon Carter that I…
ANOTHER media failure. How does Tina Brown get away with it?
Gstaad Why are hacks scared to state the obvious? In Britain the excuse is the strict libel laws. But in…
