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When I think back to my time as a punk, the seven stages of grief--shock, denial, anger, bargaining, depression, testing and acceptance--invariably cross my mind. Luckily I quit being one [...]

Walk Through Walls: a Memoir Marina Abramovic, with James Kaplan Fig Tree, 370pp. 20 £ I'd never heard of Marina Abramovic, but those nice people at Wikipedia tell me that, [...]

Unmasked: a Memoir Andrew Lloyd Webber HarperCollins, 517pp. 20 [pounds sterling] Poring over pictures of Andrew Lloyd Webber has never been a pet perve of mine, but you wouldn't have [...]

The Story of The Face: The Magazine that Changed Culture Paul Gorman Thames & Hudson, 352pp. 34.95[pounds sterling] 'We are all vain at times,' Mr Pooter famously smugged after Carrie [...]

Hell is Round the Corner Tricky Blink Publishing, 352pp. 20 [pounds sterling] Adrian Thaws never fails to live up to his stage name--how many autobiographies have you read that start [...]

Music is generally the place where you can hide yourself from life when it all gets too much, or too little. But what happens when music--in public places, and blaring [...]

Everything I Know About Love Dolly Alderton Fig Tree, 336pp. 12.99 [pounds sterling] Until recently, I would have placed dating columnists somewhere between car-testers and topiary-correspondents in the hack hierarchy [...]

It took me four decades to learn the lesson that meeting your musical heroes is a dish best sampled cold, with a long spoon, alone with an imaginary conversation in [...]

Know Your Place: Essays on the Working Class by the Working Class Edited by Nathan Connolly Dead Ink Books, 180pp, 15.99 [pounds sterling] Has there ever been a more interesting [...]

International Happiness Day is on 20 March. There is something inherently funny about this, implying as it does that the rest of the year may be wilfully abandoned to misery. [...]

Poor, modest, teetotal, self-sacrificing: Y--was the exact opposite of me. But somehow we just clicked and became best friends. Just before Y--'s mother died, she told Y--that they were Jewish. [...]

My late father was an accidental feminist. He left school at 14 and became a communist trade union organiser, most at home in a world where men gathered in smoky [...]

The Brighton motto was In Deo Fidemus -In God We Have Faith. Pretty cheeky for what must be one of the most godless towns in England. Funnily enough, a couple [...]

Jackie: the Musical Theatre Royal, Brighton Stepping inside the Theatre Royal, Brighton on a frisky Friday night, I swear I got an immediate contact high from the fumes of Prosecco [...]

Pamela Anderson was discovered at a Canadian football game and her career was launched. She posed for Playboy, appearing on the cover, got roles in television programs 'Home Improvement' and 'Baywatch' and now stars in the film, 'Barb Wire.' She married rock star Tommy Lee.

The authors discuss their views on the issue of whether Great Britain should remain a member of the European Union (EU). Topics discussed include theoretical physicist Stephen Hawking asserting that Great Britain should remain with the EU for security and economic reasons, Southbank Centre artistic director Jude Kelly stating that membership benefits British art and the British public in general and barrister Helena Kennedy claiming that being part of the EU means sharing ideas with others.

Steinem is too self-centered and focused on finding her 'inner child.' This is boring, and her years of therapy have not made her more interesting. Her new book, 'Moving Beyond Words,' covers no new ground.

Moazzam Begg compares his own experience at Guantanamo Bay with that of Africans taken to the US as slaves (Observations, 26 June). But he doesn't stop there. He remarks that [...]

It is not 'sinister', as Darcus Howe suggests (24 November), that the settled immigrant groups in this country, black and Asian, resent the endless deluge of white economic migrants from [...]

Tisdale has written a book about the sex industry, but her narrative is lacking. Feminists are divided on the subject of pornography, and commercial sex has not been a positive thing.

Presents information pertaining to the suicidal death of Sylvia Plath, a poet. Information on her suicide; Speculations as to why she killed herself; Details on the release of a book called `Birthday Letters, 88' by her husband; Background information on Plath.

The article focuses on the life of Princess Diana in Althorp, England. It explores the lonely childhood of Diana and her marriage to Prince Charles Spencer. It mentions that the house of Diana, which was considered to be a house of sorrow and secrets, was instead a monument to hereditary treachery, sibling rivalry, and the casual cruelty of the English upper classes.

A personal narrative is presented in which the author reflects on her appreciation for Christmas music despite feelings of loneliness.

The author talks about Soviet dictator Joseph Stalin who turned Russia into a superpower to match the U.S. Topics include why she saw Stalin as a romantic hero after the death of his wife, Stalin's reputation as a peasant who outlived communism's intellectuals, and the possibility that Stalin was mad due to the torture he underwent at the hands of the tsarist police.

The author ruminates about International Happiness Day on March 20th, observes that celebrities living in the public eye should avoid avoid claiming modesty and humbleness on social media, and her overall good health and avoidance of physicians.

A personal narrative is presented of the author's experience attending the funeral of a friend's mother who had just before she died revealed that the family was Jewish.

Focuses on the hidden side of the much admired life of Wallis Simpson, the woman who Edward VIII abdicated his kingship for, as revealed by Caroline Blackwood in her book `The Last of the Duchess.' Reputation as the world's most notorious widow; Secrecy surrounding aging and illness; Jimmy Donahue as the great love of her life and not the king; Comparison with Lady Diana Spencer; Role of lawyer Maitre Blum as protector.