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Emine Saner

Emine Saner is a feature writer for the Guardian

September 2024

  • Broadcaster and journalist, Jon Sopel

    ‘It’s absolutely abhorrent’: Jon Sopel on Huw Edwards, chaos in Britain and quitting the BBC

    He was the BBC’s North America editor, living in Washington DC for eight years before returning to a shockingly changed UK. He discusses social media, antisemitism, centrist dads and the sudden embrace of conspiracy theories
  • Liz Haigh-Reeve, leaning on a fence post with a field behind her in Kent.

    How we survive
    The rollercoaster I was on hurtled backwards and crashed. My friend didn’t make it – and my life changed for ever

    Liz Haigh-Reeve and her friend Alison Comerford were at Battersea park in May 1972 when the Big Dipper collapsed. It turned out there were more than 50 faults on the ride
    • ‘I regret being a little bit poor’: Doon Mackichan on stardom, Smack the Pony and never selling out

    • The G2 interview
      ‘People do awful things’: the Parole Board’s Rob McKeon on life among murderers, rapists and career criminals

    • ‘There’s otter poo, dragon poo …’ The woman who can make you smell everything, from hell to your grandparents

August 2024

  • A group of friends paddleboarding.

    How paddleboarding conquered Britain: the delights and dangers of the nation’s fastest-growing sport

    It is calming and meditative – but more and more paddleboarders are needing to be rescued. Here is how to enjoy the water while staying safe
  • Gatecrashed party … (l-r) Melanie Mayron, Marilu Henner, Brooke Adams and Caroline Aaron in Madwomen of the West.

    ‘The younger generation condemn us’: stars of Madwomen of the West hit back at cancel culture

    Wokeness, gender fluidity, the audacity of ageing … Madwomen of the West is a play giving ‘women of a certain age’ a voice – and audiences are loving it. We meet two of its outspoken stars, Brooke Adams and Caroline Aaron
  • An illustration showing an exhausted bridesmaid being pulled in two directions

    Secret confessions of bridesmaids: ‘The dress alone cost me two months’ rent’

    It can be the honour of a lifetime – or a gruelling, extortionate nightmare. With wedding season at its peak, Guardian readers share their horror stories

July 2024

  • Natalie Portman in Lady in the Lake.

    Natalie Portman on love, divorce and Paul Mescal: ‘I’m very in awe of his talent’

    She may have been on screen since she was 12, but with new drama Lady in the Lake, her TV career is only just beginning. The Oscar winner talks antisemitism, getting threatened on set – and the pictures that lit up the internet
  • Alicia Witt, 2024

    ‘The catharsis was profound, but I’ll never watch it’: Alicia Witt on facing her demons on film

    The actor and singer explains how starring alongside Nicolas Cage in the deeply unsettling new horror Longlegs helped her deal with a cancer diagnosis and the tragic death of her parents
  • ‘A generation was completely wiped out’ … Gaynor Madgwick above Aberfan.

    How we survive
    A noise like thunder – then my classroom went black. How I lost my brother, sister and stability to the Aberfan disaster

    In 1966, a colliery spoil tip collapsed on a primary school in Wales. 144 people were killed, including 116 children. Gaynor Madgwick recalls waking up in the debris – and the horror and healing that followed

June 2024

  • Cyndi Lauper

    ‘Want to be a real artist? Keep going!’: Cyndi Lauper at 71 on self-doubt, success – and surviving sexual assault

    She’s the subject of a new documentary, has just announced her farewell tour, and is about to play Glastonbury. The singer and songwriter discusses Trump, resilience and why she hated being pitted against Madonna
  • Michael Anthony Hall

    ‘My life was surreal’: Anthony Michael Hall on John Hughes, therapy and his ‘wild ass’ childhood

    He was a Hollywood sensation headlining on Saturday Night Live – and was still too young for a driving licence. But things did not always go well for The Breakfast Club actor
    • Wedding wars! How photographers took over – and vicars fought back

    • Fascinating Olympians
      Abandoned, abused and belittled: how Oksana Masters survived a torturous childhood – and became a world-beating athlete

    • ‘It definitely got me a seat in therapy’: Diane Lane on child stardom, sleazy execs and thriving in her 50s

May 2024

  • ‘A liberated rack isn’t ashamed, it does what it wants to do’ … Sarah Thornton at home in California.

    ‘Breasts are a serious political problem’: one woman’s quest to reclaim her chest

  • ‘No one ever knows what the world has in store for you’ … Rhee Kun Hoo in Seoul.

    If you live to 100, you might as well be happy: what poverty, jail and war have taught author Rhee Kun Hoo

April 2024

  • Dr Patric Gagne, author of Sociopath: A Memoir. Photograph: Zack Wittman/The Guardian)

    Weekend
    What’s it like to be a sociopath?; Gen Z’s lust for Sex and the City; and Marina Hyde on ‘President’ The Rock – podcast

  • Helen Lederer in a black jacket stands with her back to a mirror.

    Helen Lederer on envy, rejection, fun and fame: ‘I wanted it so badly – maybe that’s not normal’

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