Running a bookstore is a tough business anywhere in today’s digital world — running one that sells books critical of the Chinese Communist Party even more so. Lam Wing-kee, who helms Causeway Bay Books, an independent bookstore in Taipei, knows this well. “I am losing money every month,” the 68-year-old told me in Mandarin over a can […]

Coach is as well-loved for its vintage pieces as for its newest drops, so it’s always a good time to snap up one of the brand’s timeless handbags. The Coach Tabby 26 bag riffs on iconic designs from the ‘70s for a nostalgically on-trend piece that literally can’t miss: It goes with everything in your […]

Despite Nintendo’s deafening silence regarding its next console, there have been enough leaks and rumors lately to keep us all occupied. The latest comes from a user on the Nintendo forums Famiboards (via ResetEra), which seems to suggest that Nintendo is ramping up production on GameCube controllers. Could they be for the Switch 2? In […]

Hulu‘s October, 2024 schedule has a wealth of originals, catalog titles and plenty of holiday offerings. Films to help get one in the mood for Halloween and spookey season include thrillers like Barbarian and Edward Scissorhands, horrors like Ma, The Purge, horror comedies like Ready or Not and The Rocky Horror Picture Show andThe Curse of […]

Darius Rucker let the good times continue rolling even after his body hit the floor following an unfortunate slip at a concert over the weekend. Rucker, who was performing with his band, Hootie & the Blowfish, at his annually curated Riverfront Revival in Charleston, South Carolina, didn’t let the trip stop the show. The 58-year-old […]

One of the nation’s most prominent and influential couples shared the spotlight with baseball’s postseason Monday night as the New York Yankees opened the American League Championship Series at home. Major League Baseball posted video of pop juggernaut Taylor Swift and boyfriend Travis Kelce, a tight end for the NFL’s Kansas City Chiefs, in the […]

At 19, I fell in love with a long-haired musician wearing a white linen shirt dotted with wooden buttons. He caught my eye while strumming an acoustic guitar and singing his heart out at an open-mic-night dive bar in Montana. It only took two years before I packed up everything I owned and moved across […]

Two men posing as utility workers looking for a gas leak killed a man and bound his wife with duct tape after being admitted to their home in an upscale Detroit suburb on Friday, the authorities in Michigan said. One man, Carlos Jose Hernandez, 37, of Dearborn, Mich., was arrested after being stopped by the […]

New York Post columnist Michael Goodwin recently endorsed Donald Trump for president but with a caveat: Trump should be “heading toward a landslide” due to his opponent’s failed policies and ineptitude, but the race remains tight because of Trump’s intemperate language. “His use of nasty, childish insults instead of arguments is part of an inexplicable […]

The Democratic Party is extraordinarily unified behind Vice President Kamala Harris — a cohesion born of a defeat-Donald-Trump-at-all-costs strategy in an election with deep consequences for the future of American democracy. But the truce is a fragile one that is likely to end with the presidential election, whether Harris wins or loses. If Harris is president, […]