• Resume
Rachel Handler - Culture writer & editor Culture writer & editor
  • Clips
  • About
  • Resume
  • Contact
Vanity Fair

On Mary-Kate Olsen’s Wedding and “Bowls of Cigarettes”

In a Venn diagram of the Olsen twins and French people, there is but one intersection: cigarettes. Mary-Kate Olsen and Olivier Sarkozy—an Olsen twin…

Vulture

The Best Of Netflix’s Featuring a Strong Female Lead Category

Election However guilty you might be feeling about your own behavior of late, you’ll feel downright mired in moral rectitude after beholding the walking…

Vulture

20 Movies on Netflix That’ll Help You Make (or Break) Your Basic New Year’s Resolutions

Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid: Can’t stop robbing trains? Neither can Butch Cassidy (Paul Newman) and the Sundance Kid (Robert Redford), two unnaturally…

MTV News

I Spent The Night With Ghostbusters Superfans, And I Was The Only Asshole There

It’s 9:30 p.m. on a Wednesday night in Williamsburg, and I’m watching three grown men walk down a quiet side street, sporting Ghostbusters jumpsuits…

MTV News

What In God’s Name Is Nancy Wearing on Stranger Things?

In the hours since finishing Stranger Things, only one question has continued to weigh heavily on my mind: What is Nancy wearing? What? Is? This…

MTV News

Never Trust A Man Or A Doll With Two First Names

For more than three decades, American Girl has cornered the market on weirdly expensive dolls with cloth bodies and plastic limbs and 7,000 accessories….

MTV News

An Infinity Scarf As A Shirt, or How To Adopt Christina Aguilera’s VMAs Outfits for the Workplace

This is it: The apotheosis of Christina Aguilera’s VMA fashion. The outfit that dared challenge the blindly accepted notions of “scarf” and “skirt” and,…

Grantland

David Wain on ‘Wet Hot American Summer,’ On-Set Hookups, and Paul Rudd’s Aging Secrets

David Wain doesn’t want to be famous. Which is good, because he’s not, at least not by any standard definition. The writer-director-actor’s two-decade resume…

MTV News

Daily Mail Celebrity Clothing Description, or My Mental Unraveling?

The Daily Mail‘s website is simultaneously the most glorious and the most profoundly haunting place on the Internet. It is the entire spectrum of…

MTV News

What Scares R.L. Stine?

R.L. is waiting for me in one of the long hallways, near the front door. At 73 years old, he’s got about half his…

Previous 1 2 3 4 5 Next

About Me

Rachel Handler

Senior editor at NY Mag/Vulture.

Former staff culture writer and podcast host at MTV News.

Former news editor at The Dissolve and weekend editor at Vanity Fair.

Clips at Grantland, Vulture, Cosmopolitan, Rolling Stone, and more.

Words on pop culture & lady problems & Mandy Patinkin's facial hair.

Additional clips at rachel-handler.tumblr.com.

Back to top