menu_open Columnists
Lynn Barber

Lynn Barber

The Spectator

We use cookies to provide some features and experiences in QOSHE

More information  .  Close

Books / Was Marcel Duchamp’s notorious ‘Fountain’ even his own work?

This slim volume has only one fault. It has no illustrations. So you’ll have to do some Googling or visit the current Duchamp exhibition at MoMA...

friday 9

The Spectator

Lynn Barber

Books / Lean and mean: Mick Jagger was always a tightwad

This book got glowing reviews when it was published in the US a few months ago: ‘Irresistible’ (New York Times); ‘Riveting’ (Boston Globe);...

13.05.2026 10

The Spectator

Lynn Barber

Books / Lean and mean: Mick Jagger was always a tightwad

This book got glowing reviews when it was published in the US a few months ago: ‘Irresistible’ (New York Times); ‘Riveting’ (Boston Globe);...

11.05.2026 10

The Spectator

Lynn Barber

Books / Lean and mean: Mick Jagger was always a tightwad

This book got glowing reviews when it was published in the US a few months ago: ‘Irresistible’ (New York Times); ‘Riveting’ (Boston Globe);...

11.05.2026 10

The Spectator

Lynn Barber

Books / Lean and mean: Mick Jagger was always a tightwad

This book got glowing reviews when it was published in the US a few months ago: ‘Irresistible’ (New York Times); ‘Riveting’ (Boston Globe);...

08.05.2026 10

The Spectator

Lynn Barber

Books / Rupert Murdoch’s warped vision of family

When Rupert Murdoch divorced his fourth wife, Jerry Hall, in August 2022 he made her sign an agreement that she would not give any story ideas to the...

16.02.2026 10

The Spectator

Lynn Barber

Books / Rupert Murdoch’s warped vision of family

When Rupert Murdoch divorced his fourth wife, Jerry Hall, in August 2022 he made her sign an agreement that she would not give any story ideas to the...

16.02.2026 10

The Spectator

Lynn Barber

Books / Rupert Murdoch’s warped vision of family

12.02.2026 10

The Spectator

Lynn Barber

Books / Was Cat Stevens the inspiration for Carly Simon’s ‘You’re So Vain’?

04.11.2025 20

The Spectator

Lynn Barber

Books / Was Cat Stevens the inspiration for Carly Simon’s ‘You’re So Vain’?

04.11.2025 30

The Spectator

Lynn Barber

Books / The trials of ‘the sexiest man alive’

05.08.2025 10

The Spectator

Lynn Barber

Books / The trials of ‘the sexiest man alive’

05.08.2025 10

The Spectator

Lynn Barber

Books / The trials of ‘the sexiest man alive’

03.08.2025 20

The Spectator

Lynn Barber

Books / The trials of ‘the sexiest man alive’

01.08.2025 20

The Spectator

Lynn Barber

Magnetic and manipulative – the enigma of Gala Dali

17.04.2025 20

The Spectator

Lynn Barber

Books / Poor little rich girl: the extraordinary life of Yoko Ono

03.04.2025 10

The Spectator

Lynn Barber