Rebecca Mead
The New Yorker
New York, NY, United States
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Past articles by Rebecca:
Ridding the National Portrait Gallery of Its Gentlemen’s-Club Vibe
Among the changes that the director, Nicholas Cullinan, has overseen: a higher ratio of females on the walls, Zadie Smith in pastel, and non-polyester staff uniforms. → Read More
A Private Garden as an Antidote to Isolation
The photographer Siân Davey said, of her family’s plot in the South of England, “It felt like the potential for the whole world was held in that garden.” → Read More
Nida Manzoor’s Complicated Muslim Women
In the British sitcom “We Are Lady Parts” and the feature film “Polite Society,” Manzoor presents characters that are joyful, liberated, glamorous, and confused. → Read More
The End of “Succession” Is Near
The show’s creator, Jesse Armstrong, explains why he has chosen to conclude the drama of the Roy family in its fourth season. → Read More
The Ultimate Vermeer Collection
A bravura show at the Rijksmuseum displays more of the Dutch Master’s work at once than he himself ever saw. → Read More
“Spare,” Reviewed: The Haunting of Prince Harry
Rebecca Mead on a new memoir by the Duke of Sussex detailing his relationships with Meghan Markle, Princess Diana, King Charles, Prince William, and Kate Middleton. → Read More
The Hypocrisy of Rishi Sunak’s “North London” Slur
The new British Prime Minister gave voice to a popular conservative attack on liberal London that has dangerous connotations. → Read More
The Queen’s Funeral Went Off Without a Hitch
It was an unprecedented and unrepeatable event, the definitive end of a life of service. → Read More
Remembering Queen Elizabeth II, Who Died at 96
Elizabeth, who died on September 8th at ninety-six, led a life made up of privilege and sacrifice, and even those who resented the former acknowledged the latter. → Read More
Meghan Markle and a Royal Family Adrift
Rebecca Mead writes about the broken-down warship H.M.S. Prince of Wales and its namesake, Prince Charles, who, like the boat, waits in the wings; and Meghan, the Duchess of Sussex, making news from Montecito, California. → Read More
The Tensions of Modern Britain in Jez Butterworth’s “Jerusalem”
Rebecca Mead writes about how the play “Jerusalem,” which was first staged in 2009 and is currently in revival, finds new resonance in a post-Brexit reality and with Boris Johnson hanging on at 10 Downing Street. → Read More
A Neglected Renaissance Master Gets His Due
Rebecca Mead writes about the Renaissance painter Carlo Crivelli, an artist whose unusual and gnarly works—which dwell in the realm of the religious—have been mostly neglected in art history. → Read More
For the Platinum Jubilee, a Patriotic Pudding
How did Elizabeth II’s subjects celebrate her seventy years on the throne? With corgis in shop windows, campouts on the Mall, plenty of gin, and, at Fortnum & Mason, a prize-winning lemony trifle. → Read More
For the Platinum Jubilee, a Patriotic Pudding
How did Elizabeth II’s subjects celebrate her seventy years on the throne? With corgis in shop windows, campouts on the Mall, plenty of gin, and, at Fortnum & Mason, a prize-winning lemony trifle. → Read More
Boris Johnson Survives to Party Another Day
Rebecca Mead writes about a report authored by the British civil servant Sue Gray on parties at 10 Downing Street during periods of stringent coronavirus lockdowns in England. → Read More
Transforming Trees Into Skyscrapers
In Scandinavia, ecologically minded architects are building towers with pillars of pine and spruce. → Read More
The Greatest, Most Beautiful Play Ever, with the Possible Exception of Shakespeare
How the playwright Mike Bartlett melded Trumpisms with the language of the Bard for “The 47th.” → Read More
Robert Moses and Jane Jacobs Go to London in “Straight Line Crazy”
How David Hare took a few Moses-esque liberties when writing “Straight Line Crazy,” which partly drew upon Robert Caro’s “The Power Broker” and stars Ralph Fiennes. → Read More
Should Leopards Be Paid for Their Spots?
Style-setters from Egyptian princesses to Jackie Kennedy to Debbie Harry have embraced leopard prints. Proponents of a “species royalty” want designers to pay to help save endangered big cats. → Read More
The Common Tongue of Twenty-First-Century London
Rebecca Mead, in an excerpt from her book “Home/Land,” writes about the use of Multicultural London English among young students in the U.K. capital, and describes her own family’s move from America to Britain, which occurred when her son was just about to enter high school. → Read More