The Korea Herald

LIFE&STYLE

LATEST NEWS

A writer’s wisdom of the ages -- at 60

“Sixty: A Diary of My Sixty-First Year: The Beginning of the End, or the End of the Beginning?” By Ian Brown The Experiment (320 pages, $24.95) As a cranky wit and a wondrous observer, Ian Brown h...

Oct 5, 2016
Books
Pulitzer prize journalist takes on Donald Trump

Over an election season dominated by blatant flip-flops and lofty claims, there is one position that Republican presidential nominee Donald J. Trump has stood by firmly: He hates the media. But his ...

Oct 5, 2016
Books
Mark Seliger takes on the unsung in book of trans portraits

NEW YORK (AP) -- Nearly 50 years have passed since police raided New York’s Stonewall Inn, touching off protests on Christopher Street that fueled the LGBT movement. To mark the moment, the popular ...

Oct 5, 2016
Books
The farm boy Oscar Wilde of fashion sends up its follies

PARIS (AFP) - He's an Instagram-era Oscar Wilde, the chronicler of fashion world follies whose little red book has become a must-have accessory as anything on the Paris catwalk. Loic Prigent’s “I Lo...

Oct 5, 2016
Books
Indian author Roy announces second novel after 20-year gap

NEW DELHI (AFP) -- Indian author Arundhati Roy announced on Monday that her second novel will be published in 2017 -- 20 years after she won the Booker Prize for her debut one. Roy, an activist and ...

Oct 4, 2016
Books
Writers' privacy row erupts as Italy's Ferrante unmasked

ROME (AFP) -- One of literature’s most talked-about mysteries appeared to have been cracked Monday with the unmasking of the identity of the Italian publishing sensation Elena Ferrante. In its wake,...

Oct 4, 2016
Books
Chicago blogger Luvvie Ajayi offers wit, wisdom in new book ‘I’m Judging You: The Do-Better Manual’

“I’m Judging You” By Luvvie Ajayi Henry Holt (256 pages, $17) The wit of culture blogger Luvvie Ajayi (AwesomelyLuvvie.com) has earned her quite the following. She has been called upon by the lik...

Sept 28, 2016
Books
‘Children of the New World’ finds virtual realities disenchanting

“Children of the New World” By Alexander Weinstein Picador (240 pages, $16) The typical protagonist of Alexander Weinstein’s cautionary tales in “Children of the New World” is a man who could bene...

Sept 28, 2016
Books
My Hometown: Springsteen launches book tour in New Jersey

FREEHOLD, New Jersey (AP) -- The Boss was back in his hometown. Bruce Springsteen’s latest tour opened Tuesday, and the rocker who usually lets his songs do the talking yielded to fans to take a t...

Sept 28, 2016
Books
Mara Wilson is not Matilda anymore

When Mara Wilson was a little girl, Hollywood couldn’t get enough of her. She was one of those child actors who seemed preternaturally mature. Her vocabulary was surprisingly expansive. She could ca...

Sept 28, 2016
Books
Syrian poet Adonis says poetry 'can save Arab world'

GOTHENBURG, Sweden (AFP) -- Noted Syrian poet Adonis, whose name surfaces regularly as a top contender for the Nobel literature prize, says religious fanaticism is “destroying the heart of the Arab w...

Sept 26, 2016
Books
Jonathan Safran Foer’s ‘Here I Am’ depicts a marriage falling apart

“Here I Am” By Jonathan Safran Foer Farrar, Straus and Giroux (592 pages, $28) True to the crumbling marriage at its center, what’s best in “Here I Am” — Jonathan Safran Foer’s moving, maddening a...

Sept 21, 2016
Books
Harmonies, strife in Love’s Beach Boys tale

“Good Vibrations: My Life as a Beach Boy” By Mike Love with James S. Hirsch Blue Rider Press (448 pages, $28) Mike Love is acutely aware that he is perceived as a villain. In his new autobiograph...

Sept 21, 2016
Books
‘Little Nothing’ a fierce fairy tale

Fairy tales waste no time getting under the skin. They pretend to be innocent, once upon a time and all that, but they never are. The darkened wood, the hooded stranger, the soup served at dinner hid...

Sept 21, 2016
Books
‘The Oliver Stone Experience’ a deep dive into monumental movie career

“The Oliver Stone Experience” by Matt Zoller Seitz (TNS) “The Oliver Stone Experience” By Matt Zoller Seitz Abrams (480 pages, $50) Is there another living American director with a greater run of...

Sept 21, 2016
Books

The Korea Herald by Herald Corporation

Address : Huam-ro 4-gil 10, Yongsan-gu,Seoul, Korea
Online newspaper registration No : Seoul 아03711
Date of registration : 2015.04.28
Publisher. Editor : Kwon Chung-won
Juvenile Protection Manager : Shin Chang Hoon
Tel : 02.727.0114