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Join the Idler for a chat with comedian Viv Groskop, Idler editor Tom Hodgkinson and philosopher Mark Vernon

“Swimming to Freedom: My Escape From China and the Cultural Revolution” is Kent Wong’s memoir of the Maoist re-education times. And how those years drove desperate people to try anything – including swimming the six miles to Hong Kong.

Michael Leviton grew up in a household where speaking your mind and being truthful were the highest virtues. But once he became an adult, Leviton couldn’t pass off his brazenness as being an eccentric child. He had to deal with the consequences of his truths.

Join When Linda Cozby (soon to be Wertheimer) — a Wellesley scholarship student graduate who still missed the enchiladas of her native New Mexico — got a minor job at New York radio station WCBS in 1969, she was happy. She had long wanted to be in broadcasting, and, “as a self-described flat-chested brainy ‘dark’ woman who didn’t wear makeup,” she realized that radio, rather than television, fit her. But when she saw how the two “brave, aggressive, ferocious” on-air women reporters at WCBS often had their stories taken away from them and given to men, she became dismayed. S...

As fans are getting ready for the release of Mac Miller’s book, The Book of Mac: Remembering Mac Miller to drop this October, they have learned that another biography is not a part of the plan.  According to reports, Miller’s estate denounced the project and claims that it is not authorized by them. Journalist Paul Cantor is currently working on the biography called, “ Most Dope: The Extraordinary Life Of Mac Miller.  In a statement shared through a publicity company, Orienteer’s Nick Dierl, the estate claims that Cantor is not closely connected to the family nor with Miller’s li...