Gerry Brakus

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

Liza Minnelli doesn’t need your pity

The star’s new memoir reveals struggles with men, addiction and having Judy Garland as a mother

By Gerry Brakus

By Gerry Brakus

By Gerry Brakus

By Gerry Brakus

By Gerry Brakus

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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

The actor, who has died aged 79, made it feel acceptable not to follow the usual romantic path

By Gerry Brakus

Novels like Riders made room for pleasure in a literary culture often wary of it

By Gerry Brakus

Spotify has always felt hollow to me. It gives you the world’s music in one place, yet somehow strips…

By Gerry Brakus