Emma Brockes
Emma Brockes is a New York-based feature writer for the Guardian Weekend magazine, blogger for Guardian US and book reviewer for the New York Times. She is the author of She Left Me The Gun: My Mother's Life Before Me. Follow her on Twitter: @emmabrockes
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Do nothing at all – and just wait for the brainwaveThe slack line catches the biggest fish, wrote Thomas McGuane. So I tried turning off, but it’s not easy. Insight is elusive until you stop looking
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Donald Trump is a gift – if only to New York’s old tabloid rivalsIn an age of digital media, the tussle between the New York Post and the Daily News has been revived by the gruesome election spectacle
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What a relief - we don’t have to like Fox News after allMegyn Kelly’s previous confrontation with Donald Trump garnered respect for her and the Murdoch channel. Luckily, when they met again this week, she was rubbish
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The new side of Sheryl Sandberg is something to celebrateIn a moving post and a commencement address, the Facebook COO showed how her mind has been broadened. Let’s hope this rubs off on Silicon Valley
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If Donald Trump were president, how many of us would get US citizenship?Gaining permanent access to the US still has a whiff of the 19th century about it – and it could get even worse after November
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Am I the only Victoria Wood fan in New York?Prince’s death was felt right across the world – but in this city I feel like the only one mourning the loss of the British comedian
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Pass the sickbag, please – everybody’s playing seat politics on the planeBeing charged extra for an aisle or window seat is joining the traveller’s list of woes, along with manspreading and hogging an extra place on the train
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HBO's Confirmation: how far is too far when it comes to retelling the truth?The new dramatisation of the Anita Hill-Clarence Thomas supreme court hearings of 1991 is compelling, propulsive and – in key moments – unlikely
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Christopher Walken: ‘I don’t need to be made to look evil’He’s the go-to actor when it comes to menace, but does the new Jungle Book’s King Louie have a softer side?
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Cold and effortlessly destructive – let’s celebrate the classics of revenge literatureNora Ephron’s classy Heartburn set the standard for past relationship score-settling. Much classier than Alec Baldwin’s 240-page howl of protest
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90s TV was bad. What were we thinking?Revisiting old shows can come as a shock: 20 years ago, we found mildly funny things hilarious and gave copious overacting a free pass
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So Tina Fey’s playing Afghanistan for laughs. Good luck with thatAfter Spotlight’s depiction of a heroic female reporter, here’s Whiskey Tango Foxtrot, a war zone romcom with a press card
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New York apartments were an exotic world to me – until I moved into oneReading Judy Blume as a child, living in a block seemed freakishly modern. But the reality is a comforting community that warms you inside and out
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My son, the Columbine high school shooter: ‘a mother is supposed to know’Sue Klebold’s son and his friend killed 13 people at Columbine high school. Nearly two decades on, she is still haunted by one question: is there anything she could have done?
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Tidying up guru Marie Kondo teaches New Yorkers to find joy in declutteringThe bestselling Japanese author’s ‘does it spark joy?’ logic may seem nonsensical to some, but her fans get the meaning: don’t be a slave to possessions
Big beasts of Broadway … Stephen Sondheim and James Lapine on the art of writing musicals