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Designer Jeffrey Banks spent years co-authoring seven books on fashion before finally deciding it was time to share his own story. The menswear designer recounts more than 50 years in fashion, from working for Ralph Lauren to launching his own label, in his new memoir, Storyteller: Tales from a Fashion Insider. At 72, Banks is having a breakout year. One of his designs was selec...
The cover of Margaret Atwood’s memoir shows a close-up of the author holding a finger to her mouth, a mischievous look in her eyes, as if to suggest a riddle or two: is this a book in which secrets will be revealed, or perhaps one in which secrets are kept? Yes, and yes. Book of Lives: A Memoir of Sorts is a 600-page look at the personal and creative life of one of the world’s m...
For Cindy Zhong, like many young Chinese women, a relaxing night used to mean curling up with a steamy story about two men in love. Then her favourite authors, and their tales, started disappearing. Fans of the popular danmei same-sex romance genre, written and read mainly by straight women, say the Chinese government is carrying out the largest crackdown yet on it, effectively ...
The first step was easy. A book editor, impressed by Jeff Chang’s acclaimed 2005 cultural history of hip-hop, Can’t Stop Won’t Stop, asked if he would consider writing a book on Bruce Lee, the martial arts icon and movie star. The next 99 steps? Well, that was something altogether different. The editor who had pitched the biography left the publishing industry. Chang had two boo...
British-Hungarian writer David Szalay on Monday won the Booker Prize, the high-profile British literary award, for his novel Flesh, the organisers announced at a ceremony in London. Szalay, 51, beat five other finalists, including favourites Andrew Miller and Kiran Desai, to take the coveted literary award, which brings a £50,000 (US$66,000) payday and a big boost to the winner’...
