More than 1,000 shoppers turned out on the final day of the annual Hong Kong Book Fair on Tuesday, even as some exhibitors reported weaker foot traffic and spending throughout the week compared with last year. Several booksellers told the South China Morning Post that shifting consumer habits and unstable weather during the seven-day event…
If you could travel back in time, what year would you choose? What would you change about history? For a surprising number of Chinese people, their answer turns out to be the same: Use what they know today to save China from its unglorious past. In a new book titled Make China Great Again: Online…
For almost 40 years, Davé, a Chinese restaurant in the heart of Paris, attracted the who’s who of fashion, film, art and music. Opened in 1982, it was not just a place to eat, but an exclusive, intimate salon where celebrities, artists and designers gathered for what felt like a private, timeless film sequence. Conversation…
Crown We may receive an affiliate commission from anything you buy from this article. Journalist Brian Goldstone, who has written for The New York Times, Harper’s Magazine, The New Republic and others, spent about six years examining why so many people who work full-time jobs with low wages are homeless. His new book, “There is…
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 favorite 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…
Sign up for the Slatest to get the most insightful analysis, criticism, and advice out there, delivered to your inbox daily. Michelle Obama enjoys a nearly unparalleled degree of public esteem. YouGov ranks her No. 2 on its list of most popular public figures, just behind Jimmy Carter. (Barack is No. 4.) In 2018 she…
Viking We may receive an affiliate commission from anything you buy from this article. New York Times financial columnist Andrew Ross Sorkin’s “1929: Inside the Greatest Crash in Wall Street History – and How It Shattered a Nation” (Viking) looks back to the nation’s most catastrophic market collapse. Read an excerpt below. “1929” by Andrew…
Page Six may be compensated and/or receive an affiliate commission if you click or buy through our links. Featured pricing is subject to change. This year marks the 30th anniversary of teen classic “Clueless,” but the 1995 film’s fashion still looks as fresh as ever. And according to costume designer Mona May, that’s, like, totally…
Among the many humiliations of being American in the current moment is this: Members of the tech right and the conservative ruling class continually fetishize objects of nerd culture while also displaying a willful inability to grasp the very basic messages those objects are sending. While there are certainly worse problems (e.g. white nationalism in…
Knopf We may receive an affiliate commission from anything you buy from this article. In her posthumous memoir, “Nobody’s Girl: A Memoir of Surviving Abuse and Fighting for Justice” (to be published by Knopf on Oct. 21), Virginia Roberts Giuffre wrote about her experience being recruited at age 16 into Jeffrey Epstein’s sex trafficking ring,…