Brett Berk

Sure it’ll hold a Costco run”s worth of toilet paper and frozen quiche, but can this crazy contraption really catch a mouse? Find out in my latest review for Yahoo! Autos.

What is it like to drive an idealized iteration of your high school self? I find out in a pristine, blue, 1972 BMW, and tell all about it in Vanity Fair.

My automotive celebration of Father’s Day, at Vanity Fair. 10 Hot Dad Wagons: Five Hot Station Wagons Your Dad Should Buy Right Now (and Five He Wishes He Could, but Can’t).

I review a handful of entertaining, affordable, and stylish small cars, perfect for negotiating hellishly crowded Parkways and Interstates on your way to equally hellish and crowded beaches and mountains where you”ll see everyone you know from your neighborhood in the City, over at Vanity Fair.

The latest Ferrari super-car–a replacement for the fast and ungainly Enzo–will appear some time before year’s end. We had a chance to view its crazy hybrid power-train firsthand at the Beijing Auto Show, and explicate it in terms anyone can understand, for Vanity Fair.

The chocolaty paradox of the Mercedes SLS AMG Roadster, plus four more deliciously brown convertibles for your cool summer. Review and slideshow at Vanity Fair.

“Brett Berk, car columnist at Vanity Fair, and author of ‘The Gay Uncle’s Guide to Parenting’ said there’s a clear reason why people love to hate minivans: misogyny.”
From The Huffington Post, Minivan Sales are Up, but Don’t Call it a Comeback.

The Huffington Post picked up my article about Cranbrook, my gay hair, and Mitt Fucking Romney. Check it out.

Someone recently asked me to post the archive of my articles for the parenting site, Babble. So here they are.

1) Crying Uncle: Parenthood Ruined My Best Friends
2) The Gender Spectrum: Macho, Girly, and Beyond
3) Pinocchio Parenting: Why We Lie to Kids
4) The Good Divorce: Mediation
5) Where are the Queer Lit Classics for Kids?
6) In Praise of Junk Food!
7) Ad Literacy 101: Teaching Kids to Decode Commercials

Driving a Land Rover in a swamp, a Ferrari in the snow, a Porsche on a “simulated ice hill,” and a BMW against a freeway barricade. Instruction, marketing, or both? Welcome to the world of manufacturers’ consumer driving schools. My latest for Bloomberg Businessweek.