Rebecca Mead

Nov 10, 2024 | newyorker.com | Rebecca Mead

After sitting for a while in contemplation, Fadojutimi gathered herself to paint. “Marty, would you pick me a color?” she asked. He leaped up and threw a nitrile glove at a shelf of paints to make a random choice. It hit a shade of blue, and he started preparing a dish of the color.

Nov 10, 2024 | flipboard.com | Rebecca Mead

2 hours ago"Drug-fuelled parties are constantly taking place next door - we're miserable"Fed up locals say their lives are being made miserable by a holiday let - which is constantly being used to host 'drug-fuelled' parties into the early hours. Neighbours say that the situation in Bromley, southeast London, has become “catastrophic” since number 27 was listed online.

Oct 2, 2024 | newyorker.com | Rebecca Mead

In today’s newsletter, the V.P. debate. Plus, Rebecca Mead shares her favorite monarchy media. And then:But the matchup came down to Tim Walz’s record in Minnesota versus his opponent’s unfailing defense of Donald Trump. The pressure was on last night to finish first—and J. D. Vance kept a stride ahead of Tim Walz, Benjamin Wallace-Wells writes, in his analysis of the V.P. debate.

Sep 29, 2024 | newyorker.com | Rebecca Mead

For any author, pre-publication attention is an infinitely precious commodity. So it must have been with great delight that Craig Brown, the British satirist, learned last month that his book “Q: A Voyage Around the Queen” (Farrar, Straus & Giroux) had come to the attention of that well-known influencer Donald Trump. The former President makes a brief appearance, in a chapter dedicated to the late Queen Elizabeth’s encounters with controversial foreign leaders.

Sep 28, 2024 | newyorker.com | Rebecca Mead

Dame Maggie Smith, who died on Friday, at the age of eighty-nine, was one of a generation of female British actors who carved out a long career on the stage, in the movies, on television, and, in a final unexpected turn, on TikTok. Recently, a clip featuring a conversation between Dame Maggie and Dames Joan Plowright, Judi Dench, and Eileen Atkins, from a 2018 documentary, “Tea with the Dames,” directed by Roger Michell, went viral.