Singer-songwriter Joan Baez's collection of autobiographical poems, When You See My Mother, Ask Her to Dance, is one of the more creative new celebrity memoirs of 2024. "These poems about my life ...

Cinema fans will appreciate the stop on Tatsumi Bridge, a destination that was replicated in Memoirs of a Geisha. Cross the river to ascend Pontocho, a geisha district pulsating with life. This sleepy ...

He was inspired to write his memoirs when on vacation in Mustique with Lady Anne Glenconner, a former lady-in-waiting for Queen Elizabeth II and close friend of Princess Margaret, who published ...

There’s a name for that feeling you get after spending too long scrolling aimlessly, and Oxford University Press (OUP) has chosen it as its word for the year for 2024. “Brain rot” took the ...

According to Oxford University Press, which publishes the Oxford English Dictionary (OED), the term “brain rot” is defined as the “supposed deterioration of a person’s mental or ...

Angela Merkel was “concerned” about the rise of “Hindu nationalists” in India, the former German Chancellor writes in her memoirs, where she disputes Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s ...

And of course, that's still very moving." Merkel's new book, "Freedom: Memoirs 1954-2021" (published by St. Martin's Press), is filled with moving memories of what it was like growing up in the ...

In the minimalist tasting room at Leaves Coffee Roasters in Tokyo’s Sumida Ward, my host leans in close to a cup of Panama Geisha, inhaling deeply. "When it's hot, you'll find aromatic compounds ...

The publication of her memoirs, almost 700 pages long, is an opportunity to analyse the political legacy of Merkel, who was often described as the most powerful woman in Europe. In the book ...

A group of Uniting residents living from two retirement villages in inner-west Sydney have come together to pen a 40,000-word collection of personal stories entitled The First Thursday Memoir Writing ...