Our best books of 2022 reading list includes 22 books published in 2022 + 18 from prior years. These 5-star reads were the best of ~200 books.

She helped make her now-legendary husband David Bowie a star—managed his early career, shaped his Ziggy alter ego, even sewed his costumes—but had enough after 10 years and one child (film director Duncan Jones). When

While The Prettiest Star dolls are tributes and touchable homages to an artist’s and a representation of their look at a particular time. They are, rather than being a mere copy of, inventive, unique and a real work of art. The Prettiest Stars visionary is Nottingham based textile creative Tracy Humphreys, who inspired by her own musical hero creates dolls with a distinct rock star edge.

Edith Piaf, French singer and actress whose interpretation of the chanson made her internationally famous.

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With the bad news about the death of David Bowie, and the subsequent tsunami of Internet posts about his life and work, the passing of another 70s glam rocker—albeit a much more obscure one—Brett Smiley has gone nearly unreported. Smiley died on January 8th at his home in Brooklyn after a longtime battle with both HIV and hepatitis, at the age of 60. Brett Smiley is not someone who was necessarily “forgotten” or who was a “has-been” per se, as he was never really known by the public at large in the first place. He occupies the place that’s under Jobriath in the hierarchy of little-known androgynous Bowie-wannabe pretty boys of the glam rock era. He was a cult figure, sure, but it’s a cult consisting of a very few members (I consider myself one of them). I suspect Brett Smiley won’t get an obituary in the New York Times, so below is a post from the Dangerous Minds archive to mark his passing. And here is a fascinating personal essay about his later years, and recent death, that was just posted by someone who knew him. There are several in-depth interviews with him that...

The Dancing on Ice presenter looked effortlessly stunning