Emily Alford's posts

Long before politicians adopted the teams of political consultants, set designers, and makeup artists responsible…

Seagram’s heir Clare Bronfman will be sentenced imminently Wednesday for aiding NXIVM founder Keith Raniere in…

Donald Trump’s gloating announcement that he has put forth a woman—“conservative feminist” and anti-abortion…

It would be folly to try and pretend that Princesses Beatrice and Eugenie are the best English royals, but history…

A few years ago, I followed Val Stones from Series 7 of The Great British Bake Off on Instagram. When she followed…

On Wednesday afternoon, in wake of the news that no police officers would be held responsible for the murder of…

Here at Barf Bag my colleagues and I aim to blog the political news until we puke. We’re actually contractually…

In this, the fall of our quarantine, as one and all peer blearily ahead to the coming winter darkness yet kindle…

A 26th woman has accused Donald Trump of sexual assault. Former model Amy Dorris’s story is remarkably similar to…

Los Angeles’s Chateau Marmont is modeled after a royal hideout in France’s Loire Valley and has also long been a…

Negotiating an entire country’s interests while situated abroad seems fraught with potential for cultural…

Ridesharing app Lyft has conscripted a few lines from a Maya Angelou poem to demonstrate its commitment to BIPOC and…

Yesterday, Page Six reported that publishing house HarperCollins is suing Lindsay Lohan to the tune of $400,000 for…

It has been a pajama-swathed summer during which the act of fastening a button has begun to feel like putting on…

The moment Joe Biden named Kamala Harris as his running mate came the right’s shitty, invented efforts to discredit…

Peter Madsen, the Danish inventor convicted of sexually assaulting and murdering journalist Kim Wall aboard a…

Despite President Trump’s assertion that most white supremacists are “fine people” and that the real threat to the…

Daphne Du Maurier’s 1938 novel Rebecca is quite possibly the only perfect novel—a slow burn of a book chronicling…

The Republican National Convention is over, leaving many of us all existential dreaded up with no one to yell at.…

Gone With the Wind’s opening sequence includes an epigraph that reads, “There was a land of Cavaliers and Cotton…