How Jon Klassen wrote books for the most inscrutable audience: Babies
For “Your Island,” “Your Forest” and “Your Farm,” the author and illustrator radically simplified what was on the page.
Helen Fielding Has a Big Collection of ‘Sadly Ineffective’ Self-Help Books
The creator of Bridget Jones, who grew up on Jane Austen and Jackie Collins, has no patience for “snobbery about escapist ...
Margaret Atwood Announces Long-Awaited Memoir ('of Sorts') Book of Lives: 'I Sweated Blood Over This'
The Handmaid's Tale' author and literary icon Margaret Atwood's long-awaited memoir, 'Book of Lives: A Memoir of Sorts,' is ...
A gossip guru ponders our love for scandalous hearsay
After this prelude, McKinney spent the remainder of each episode regaling her guest with an “anonymous morsel of gossip from ...
I tried the Oppo Find N5, the world’s thinnest folding phone – and it makes the Galaxy Z Fold 6 look massive
Oppo has officially announced that the Find N5, the world's thinnest book-style folding phone, will launch globally on ...
I asked DeepSeek vs ChatGPT a series of ethical questions — and the results were shocking
In a recent test with both DeepSeek (started by a hedge fund and based in China) and OpenAI’s ChatGPT, the answers to moral ...
The woman with HIV who inspired a romance novel
A woman with HIV, who inspired the plot of a romance novel, says "stigma is rife" about the virus. Freya, whose name has been ...
Dating in your 60s? This is what you need to know
In a novel inspired by her own midlife dating experiences, Niloufar Lamakan was keen to defy expectations of age-appropriate ...
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Jarl Mohn’s Landmark Gift to Museums
Having donated more than 250 works to the Hammer, LACMA and MOCA in 2024, the LA collector discusses his singular approach ...
Everything We Know About Christine Brown’s ‘Sister Wives’ Tell-All, Including When You Can Read It
Christine Brown is getting ready to spill all the tea. The Sister Wives star is preparing to release her long-awaited tell-all, Sister Wife: A Memoir of Faith, Family, and Finding Freedom. Here’s ...
A work of fiction feeling its way between idea and execution
In many ways, 'Theory & Practice' is like a coming-of-age novel or perhaps a coming-to-writing novel. Author Michelle de ...
'You have to create new lives': SF Chronicle reporter releases new book about the unhoused crisis
Kevin Fagan is retiring from the San Francisco Chronicle. His new book "The Lost and The Found" details stories of unhoused people reuniting with loved ones after years on the street.