Michael Mailer

I’m now considered a freak in New York

24 October 2020 9:00 am

New York It’s nice to finally be in the Bagel, a place where the cows have two legs and no…

Why Harvey, Dustin and Brett did it

11 November 2017 9:00 am

A dinner in honour of Arki Busson hosted by Michael Mailer in his brilliant Brooklyn flat on the banks of…

The most dangerous word in the digital world is 'send'

14 November 2015 9:00 am

Those who forget the pasta are condemned to reheat it, tweeted Jon Ronson, a man I’d never heard of until…

I once tried to buy coke from the head of Manhattan detectives

23 May 2015 9:00 am

This is as good as it gets. A light rain is falling on a soft May evening and I’m walking…

Take it from Taki: this could be the start of something really big

16 May 2015 9:00 am

OK. Magnanimity in victory is a sine qua non among civilised men and women, so let me not be the…

The Olympic spirit may be dead in Ibiza, but at least the hookers are world-class

13 September 2014 9:00 am

Ibiza This island is the Spanish equivalent of  the Greek sex rock of Mykonos, except its waters are murkier, its…

I’m off the booze. My daughter insists that I walk her down the aisle – not vice versa

3 May 2014 9:00 am

The vicissitudes of getting old are linked to the mystical innocence of childhood as one daydreams the precious time away.…

Taki: The joke that made me like Mike Tyson

30 November 2013 9:00 am

New York   Nature is at her best right now, the leaves still holding, Central Park awash in golden browns…