Celebrity Life

(LONDON) — South African writer Damon Galgut won the prestigious Booker Prize for fiction on Wednesday with The Promise, a novel about one white family’s reckoning with South Africa’s racist history. Galgut had been British bookmakers’ runaway favorite to win the 50,000-pound ($69,000) prize with his story of a troubled Afrikaner family and its broken…

Read all about it! See which stars have added 'author' to their resume

Going method. In Will Smith’s forthcoming Will memoir, he’s getting candid about his past and current relationships. During the 53-year-old King Richard star’s first marriage to ex-wife Sheree Zampino — with whom he shares 28-year-old son Trey — the Pennsylvania native claimed he “fell in love” with Stockard Channing while they worked together on Six Degrees of Separation in 1993. “Sheree […]

(NEW YORK) — A memoir Paul Newman left unpublished in his lifetime will come out next fall. Publisher Alfred A. Knopf announced Wednesday that the book, currently untitled, will include Newman’s thoughts on “acting, directing, boyhood, family, fame, Hollywood, Broadway, love, his first marriage, his 50-year marriage to Joanne Woodward, drinking, politics, racing, his ultimate…

Cozy reading season starts now, with a crop of stirring new books offering something for everyone to curl up with. For those looking to reflect on deeply unsettling recent history, there’s Gary Shteyngart’s new novel set at the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic, when a group of friends enter lockdown together in a country home.…

Emily Ratajkowski wasn’t sure she wanted to write the story of what happened to her on the set of “Blurred Lines.” Earlier this month, a chapter from Ratajkowski’s forthcoming book, My Body, was leaked online. In it, she describes the power dynamics on the set of the music video that launched her to fame in…

Darcie Little Badger has been shaped by stories—the stories passed down to her through generations of family members, the stories she devoured as a fantasy-obsessed kid, the stories she now writes in books for young adults. And, of course, the story that gave her her name. She was born Darcie Erin Ryan—Little Badger coming, in…

Children’s book illustrator Jerry Pinkney, who died on Oct. 20 at the age of 81, was a cultural touchstone. Whether he was illustrating tales about Reverend Martin Luther King or Black cowboys, I don’t know if anyone has accomplished bringing Black history and culture—and Black beauty—to life through illustrations with the consistency and vigor that…

A healthy how-to that’s inspirational and practical? Yes, please! Food Story: Rewrite the Way You Eat, Think, and Live by Elise Museles empowers readers to finally heal their relationships with food. Bonus: The...

Growing up, I believed that my thoughts had an effect on everything, from the role I would get in the school play, to what my future would hold, to how tall I would grow. This habit of magical thinking has persisted. Some of my superstitions: If I plan a trip, I will be sure to…

Heather Golde Self-care central! Nutrition expert Elise Museles is putting a new spin on the wellness world with her new book, Food Story: Rewrite the Way You Eat, Think and Live. The attorney-turned-food psychology specialist expands upon the advice she’d been giving fans of her Kale & Chocolate blog in her book, hitting shelves on […]

Sixx calls the new book his 'origin story,' chronicling his journey from Idaho farmboy to founding member of one of the biggest rock bands of all time