Magazines & Books
To Have, To Hold —and To Remember Ever After
FOR Patrick Uy, a good wedding photograph is all about freezing timeless and priceless moments in a frame. Whether he’s shooting weddings, portraits, or doing ads, he likes the storytelling approach in shooting people. “I may be in Batanes or Bora...
Books: Secret passions - No longer obliged to hide his fervour for writing, Manil Suri dissects his native country's ardours
For years, Manil Suri wrote in secret. Fearing disapproval from his fellow mathematics professors if they discovered he spent his leisure time writing fiction, Suri attended writing courses clandestinely while establishing himself as a tenured aca...
Harry Potter 'prequel' raises money for charity at auction
LONDON -- A mini-prequel penned by JK Rowling to her blockbuster "Harry Potter" series of books fetched £25,000 (€31,600, $48,800) at a charity auction on Tuesday.
Eva Hoffman: 'The first impulse was to write about music'
Eva Hoffman's novel, Illuminations, is a love story and a novel of ideas, but it is also, says its author, a book about "a path not quite taken". While growing up in Cracow, she attended the music school, "a kind of natural environment for future ...
Books: Drummond's next contains overflow
A retired reporter for WBBM Channel 2, Drummond has interviewed countless people over the years, including mobsters, murderers, athletes and assorted Chicago oddballs. Drummond did more than just get those interviews on tape -- he also transcribed...
Magazines: Lindsay Lozon's 'All My Boys' is a twink delight
Ignore the tame front cover of Canadian photographer Lindsay Lozon's All My Boys (Bruno Gmunder). The magnificent back cover is infinitely more erotic, as are the 120 color pages between the hard covers.
Books: All I Could Bare: My Life in the Strip Clubs of Gay Washington, DC by Craig Seymour
Author Craig Seymour (Luther: The Life and Longing of Luther Vandross), a professor of English at the University of Massachusetts, Dartmouth, begins his slick, satisfying memoir by describing a first date where he is trying desperately to plead hi...
Magazines: Muscle up - Workout with a star
Let's face it. Few of us — okay, none of us — will ever be as toned and muscular as Mario Lopez is right now. Those recent "paparazzi" pics of the 35-year-old actor riding a bike shirtless, running on the beach shirtless, and doing pretty much ev...
Books : Killing time - Murder mysteries for summer reading
Murder mysteries have become even more essential for summer vacations. A fine whodunit will help cope with the ever-increasing stress of travel. It will also be a perfect poolside/beach companion.
Is make-believe vital to kids? You better believe it
Make-believe is more than child's play. It's crucial to the development of creativity, empathy, learning and problem-solving, but it's being squeezed out of the lives of many children, says psychologist Susan Linn. In her new book, The Case for Ma...
Book Of A Lifetime: The Kiss And Other Stories, by Anton Chekhov
I found The Kiss and Other Stories in a secondhand bookshop. I read the title story and wondered why anyone would part with it. Embarrassment, the boredom of social life, disappointment, pointless accident: what Chekhov makes out of these snares, ...
Book Extract: The Impostor by Damon Galgut
Now they have walked into a tall, sepulchral space, in which Adam's eyes have to adjust. He sees constituent elements before he sees the whole: slate floors, high conical roof, prints of wildlife paintings on the walls, between signboards with nam...
Karin Slaughter: The crime writer reveals why she doesn't flinch from extreme violence
Two years ago I interviewed Ian Rankin for this newspaper. In the middle of a wide-ranging discussion he said something he may have since come to regret. "The people writing the most graphic violence today are women," he told me, then continued, "...