Tina Brown
Why, at 75, does Graydon Carter still feel the need to impress?
The humblebrag and name-dropping read more like a Craig Brown pastiche than the reminiscences of one of America’s most celebrated magazine editors
How I’d sex down the weather forecast
I have, for utterly explicable reasons, not been asked to guest-edit Radio 4’s Today this Christmas. Had I, though, I would…
High life
I may have spoken too soon last week when I defended my old friend Harvey Weinstein. It now looks very…
High life
I was appalled. She had asked Lord John Somerset to ask me to join her, and I rose rather unsteadily…
A touch of class
The New Yorker has always been revered for the supreme quality of its writing, says Philip Hensher
High life
New York Here’s a question for you loyal readers: if a hubby asks his wife to cook him a hearty…
Keeping up appearances
Shortly after I started working at Vanity Fair in the mid-1990s, I suggested to my boss Graydon Carter that I…
High life
Gstaad Although no longer a regular habit, extended benders now turn me into a sort of magnetic field that picks…
High life
Gstaad Why are hacks scared to state the obvious? In Britain the excuse is the strict libel laws. But in…