Tina Brown

Why, at 75, does Graydon Carter still feel the need to impress?

29 March 2025 9:00 am

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

16 December 2017 9:00 am

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

21 October 2017 9:00 am

I may have spoken too soon last week when I defended my old friend Harvey Weinstein. It now looks very…

High life

2 September 2017 9:00 am

I was appalled. She had asked Lord John Somerset to ask me to join her, and I rose rather unsteadily…

Left to right: Wolcott Gibbs, Dorothy Parker and James Thurber.

A touch of class

2 January 2016 9:00 am

The New Yorker has always been revered for the supreme quality of its writing, says Philip Hensher

High life

31 May 2014 9:00 am

 New York Here’s a question for you loyal readers: if a hubby asks his wife to cook him a hearty…

Keeping up appearances

29 March 2014 9:00 am

Shortly after I started working at Vanity Fair in the mid-1990s, I suggested to my boss Graydon Carter that I…

High life

11 January 2014 9:00 am

Gstaad Although no longer a regular habit, extended benders now turn me into a sort of magnetic field that picks…

High life

21 September 2013 9:00 am

Gstaad Why are hacks scared to state the obvious? In Britain the excuse is the strict libel laws. But in…