Gerry Brakus

Gerry Brakus is the Creative Editor of the New Statesman. She has overseen covers, photography and illustration from Westminster to Washington.

The Marilyn Monroe we keep inventing

An exhibition marking the centenary of the actress’ birth shows our need to explain her rather than accept her

By Gerry Brakus

By Gerry Brakus

By Gerry Brakus

By Gerry Brakus

By Gerry Brakus

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The war photographer has died aged 61

By Gerry Brakus

The giant of American cinema has died aged 95

By Gerry Brakus

This is not about women failing to protect themselves; it is about power finding ways to neutralise them

By Gerry Brakus

And God Created Woman, and the trouble that followed

By Gerry Brakus

The best photography books published in the past 12 months – selected by the New Statesman’s creative editor

By Gerry Brakus

Films like When Harry Met Sally and This is Spinal Tap resisted hardness or cynicism

By Gerry Brakus

Craig Easton’s An Extremely Un-get-atable Place depicts the remote Scottish house where Orwell spent much of his final years

By Gerry Brakus

The founding editor of The Independent has died aged 88

By Gerry Brakus