The California fires and the reckoning on liberal governance

Is Cormac McCarthy finished?

Books

He has revealed that he himself was as flawed as any of his antagonists

Alexander Larman

Though well paid as a screenwriter, Parker lampooned Hollywood’s moguls, dubbing MGM Metro-Goldwyn-Merde as she slipped further into alcoholism

Scott Bradfield

Everyone has heard of Joan Didion and few people of Eve Babitz, but when they became friends in 1967 it was Babitz with the big reputation

Frances Wilson

The World According to Joan Didion is an example of a regrettable new trend — the solipsistic biography

Lynn Barber

Politics

The once-great publication now reads like an anti-DeSantis propaganda rag

Cockburn

London Life
August 1, 2022
My Tina Brown fantasy
I waited twenty years for the Tina call — but alas I suspect I’ve got a lot more waiting to do
Cosmo Landesman
Food
May 25, 2021
Hell hath no fury like a restaurateur scorned
Keith McNally dines out on Graydon Carter
Cockburn
High Life
April 23, 2020
Writing my High Life column made a man of me
It anchored me and gave my playboy life a sense of purpose
Taki
Art
February 17, 2020
Even the Oscars after-parties have lost their shine
Hollywood celebrities talk a big game in public, but in private they enjoy letting their hair down
Toby Young