Category: Culture & Lifestyle

POETRYHologrammaticalPhilip SalomPuncher & Wattman, $27The Empty GrandstandLloyd JonesUpswell, $24.99Two books of poetry. One from Philip Salom, a poet who in the past few years has concentrated on fiction, publishing four...

SCIENCEThe Secret Life of The UniverseNathalie A. CabrolSimon & Schuster, $34.99Nathalie Cabrol is an extraordinary woman. Not only is she director of the Carl Sagan Centre at the SETI (Search...

The Winds from Further WestAlexander McCall SmithPolygon, $39.99Compassionate comedy with a hint of melancholy under the uplift? That has been Alexander McCall Smith’s calling card for decades and the author...

Rodney Hall’s Vortex is possibly his most ambitious work.FICTIONVortexRodney HallPicador, $34.99At the age of 88, Rodney Hall’s new novel, Vortex – his 14th work of fiction – is perhaps his...

Interior Chinatown★★★★Disney+This 10-part series is an ambitious adaptation of Charles Yu’s 2020 novel of the same name, which took a scathing swipe at Asian representation and stereotypes in Western pop...

Normal text sizeLarger text sizeVery large text sizeIt’s barely gone 7am in the UK when Professor Alice Roberts joins me on Zoom, and within minutes she’s reeling off extraordinary facts...

Get ready, Filipinos in the Middle East!"Hello, Love Again" starring Alden Richards and Kathryn Bernardo will have its theatrical debut in the United Arab Emirates, Oman, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Bahrain,...

A view of Nikos Kouvdis' pottery workshop in Agios Stefanos village, near Mandamados on the Greek island of Lesbos, Greece, July 16, 2024. His family’s dedication to preserving the craft...

Miss Grand India Organization announced that it is parting ways with the Miss Grand International Organization.In a statement dated November 17, which was posted on Monday on the official Instagram...

"Hello, Love, Again" has reached greater heights with another box-office record!On November 16, the Alden Richards and Kathryn Bernardo-starrer recorded a P131 million gross sales in a single day. The...