Daphne Merkin

Daphne Merkin was a staff writer for The New Yorker and is currently a contributing writer for the New York Times Magazine and Elle. She is the author of a novel, Enchantment, and a collection of essays, Dreaming of Hitler.

Banality of Evil

The Importance of Being Hannah

Daphne Merkin on a brilliant new film presenting Hannah Arendt in the midst of the Eichmann trial and the 'banality of evil.'

Daphne Merkin

Review

The Liz and Dick Show

Not even a mediocre film can erase the allure of the great romance of Elizabeth Taylor and Richard Burton. Daphne Merkin on Lindsay Lohan’s star turn as ‘Liz.’

Daphne Merkin

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Liz and Dick

Richard Burton’s Diaries Reveal His Mad Love for Liz Taylor

The great celebrity romance of Elizabeth Taylor and Richard Burton is intimately captured in his diaries.

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The Yin and Yang of Marilyn

A new collection, Fragments, of the actress’ diaries reveals her dark, tortured soul, but there’s also a happier, more normal side that emerges here, says Daphne Merkin.

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Are Jews Really Liberal?

In time for the High Holidays, Daphne Merkin examines the hot air rhetoric in Norman Podhoretz’s new polemic, Why Are Jews Liberal?, and comes away unconvinced.

Daphne Merkin

Daphne Merkin

The Importance of Being Hannah

The Liz and Dick Show

Richard Burton’s Diaries Reveal His Mad Love for Liz Taylor

The Yin and Yang of Marilyn

Are Jews Really Liberal?

Sex Scandal for the History Books

Bright Nights, Shady City

John Updike's Final Chapter

The Men on the Dais

The Brotherhood of Money