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UK writer Samantha Harvey’s Orbital wins Booker Prize for fiction
In her novel set aboard the International Space Station, six astronauts circle the Earth, looping through 16 sunrises and sunsets in a day.
13 Nov 2024 - 4:18PM
Copy of The Little Prince worth US$1.25 million for sale at art fair
9 Nov 2024 - 1:15PM
Tributes pour in for bookshop owner, but he’s very much alive
6 Nov 2024 - 11:15AM
Arts & Culture
Literary but not literal, translator introduces Korean writers to the world
Award-winning translator Brother Anthony ponders Nobel Prize hype and the complexities of translating Korean poems and novels into English.
4 Nov 2024 - 9:41AM
Korean literature translator and naturalised South Korean citizen Brother Anthony says “readability is all that counts” when it comes to translation. Photo: Instagram/@notsokoreanpodcast
Arts & Culture
Jodi Picoult, Margaret Atwood, Alice Walker books top banned list in US
Once recommended for young adults, Picoult’s Nineteen Minutes leads among 4,200 titles banned in schools, writers’ group PEN America says.
3 Nov 2024 - 4:15AM
Arts & Culture
Nick Harkaway on stepping into dad John le Carré’s shoes
Author talks about reviving spymaster character George Smiley for Karla’s Choice, and how he got over his terror of writing the thriller.
28 Oct 2024 - 1:13PM
Food & Drink
Cookbook takes stress out of sharing kitchen with recipes for bonding
A Couple Cooks: 100 Recipes to Cook Together has recipes from pizza to sides in which the labour is split to make things ‘more fun together’.
27 Oct 2024 - 4:15PM
Arts & Culture
Novelist Nicholas Sparks on Counting Miracles, its Bible connection
The author talks about where his ideas come from, how characters in his new book compare to those in earlier ones, and being a visual writer.
20 Oct 2024 - 6:15PM
The cover of Counting Miracles, a new novel by Nicholas Sparks. The author talks about drawing on the Bible for ideas and being a visual writer. Photo: TNS
Arts & Culture
Author Han Kang hopes to ‘continue as always’ after Nobel Prize win
Han Kang, South Korea’s first Nobel Literature laureate, says win was a ‘joyful moment’ she ‘quietly celebrated’, but now it’s back to work.
18 Oct 2024 - 12:26PM
Entertainment
Grief, love and Elvis in Lisa Marie Presley’s memoir, finished by daughter
After Lisa Marie Presley’s death, Riley Keough helped complete her mother’s memoir of love, grief and life with the King of Rock & Roll.
11 Oct 2024 - 5:50AM
Entertainment
Moon Unit Zappa is frank about her celebrity upbringing in new memoir
Zappa talks about her guitarist father, Frank, her first novel and 9/11, and why it took so long to write her second book, Earth to Moon.
30 Sep 2024 - 7:15PM
Arts & Culture
Normal People author Sally Rooney on new novel, old anxieties
Irish author is growing with her characters, as fourth novel Intermezzo shows, but she is yet to grow used to how much attention she gets.
25 Sep 2024 - 4:15PM
Writer Sally Rooney examines modern love in all its glory and friction in her fourth novel Intermezzo. She is still not used to how much attention she receives, she has told interviewers. Photo: AFP
Arts & Culture
How TV’s Connie Chung affected Asian-Americans in ways she didn’t even know
Connie Chung, so ubiquitous on American TV news that hundreds of Asian-American women have been named after her, tells all in a new memoir.
20 Sep 2024 - 7:16AM
Arts & Culture
In the US, Chinese bookseller stocks titles he could never sell before
Effectively forced to shut in China, Yu Miao opened a store in Washington selling Chinese books including titles from Taiwan and Hong Kong.
18 Sep 2024 - 7:15AM
Arts & Culture
‘Obliviousness of men’ shown in satirical stories of toxic masculinity
Daniel Bird’s new book Sorry Men takes aim at toxic masculinity in a short-story collection about men who avoid vulnerability and honesty
11 Sep 2024 - 5:15PM
Arts & Culture
Kung fu expert shares his Chinese martial arts philosophy in book, film
An expert in Chinese martial arts, Laurence Brahm has released a book and documentary promoting the philosophical principles of kung fu, based on his years of travelling to discover its essence.
4 Sep 2024 - 11:15AM
Laurence Brahm practises wing chun. Photo: Laurence Brahm
Arts & Culture
Captivating photos of Macau highlight its ‘strange blend of extremes’
Adam Lampton took thousands of photos of Macau between 2006 and 2019, from half-built casinos to local people, that show the crossroads of its gaming industry and Chinese-Portuguese history.
2 Sep 2024 - 12:45PM
Arts & Culture
4 must-read translated books by women, a Man Booker prize winner’s picks
Award-winning translator Jennifer Croft shares her top translated reads – and explains why a translator should be seen ‘as the co-author of the translated book’.
31 Aug 2024 - 1:23PM
Arts & Culture
‘We knew he was talented.’ Tanya Smith on Prince, and stealing US$40 million
A teenage Michael Jackson fan and a bank robber, Tanya Smith spent over 13 years in jail. She’s written about that and more, including seeing singer Prince start out, in a memoir. Expect a screen adaptation soon.
26 Aug 2024 - 4:36AM
Arts & Culture
Review
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The Great Gatsby prequel novel shows the iconic character’s rise
Gatsby’s Rival by Richard Guimond transports readers to Gatsby’s life before he was the great pretender known as The Great Gatsby in an epic adventure story that rivets the reader from page one.
24 Aug 2024 - 5:15PM
The cover of Gatsby’s Rival by Richard Guimond.
Travel & Leisure
5 must-shop events in Hong Kong this weekend, August 16-18
Whether you are a fan of tea, storytelling and books, artistic wood and glass designs, or unique jewellery, here are 5 shopping suggestions for you and your family this weekend.
16 Aug 2024 - 11:29AM
Arts & Culture
Review
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How the horse shaped human history, from farming to fighting
Horses might have gone extinct after the Ice Age had man not domesticated them, first for milking, then for herding, and turned them into instruments of war, as a new, in-depth history of the horse recounts.
14 Aug 2024 - 4:15PM
Entertainment
Why Bruce Willis is the last classic Hollywood movie star in author’s eyes
Bruce Willis started in 1980s TV series Moonlighting, hit the big time with the Die Hard franchise, and took risks with roles in Pulp Fiction, The Fifth Element and Sixth Sense.
10 Aug 2024 - 4:15PM
OPINION
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Then & Now
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Macanese writer-lawyer’s fiction gives powerful flavour of old Macau
19 May 2024 - 3:56PM
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Shopping, sedan chairs, seeing China – tips for 1930s Hong Kong tourists
6 May 2024 - 7:45AM
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The eclectic publisher jailed for plotting to kill Mao Zedong
9 Apr 2024 - 7:45AM
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A brief but beautiful encounter with a key literary figure from 1930s China
9 Mar 2024 - 7:33PM
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A Hong Kong amateur historian dead 35 years but whose work still resonates
3 Jul 2023 - 7:45AM
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Then & Now
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Published in 1957, this is still Hong Kong’s most comprehensive history book
31 May 2023 - 7:45AM
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