Michelle Garnaut, who hosted royals, film stars and prime ministers at her fine dining restaurant, talks about her ups and downs, working out the best exit and starting a podcast series.

An American academic, in a new book, warns of the dangers of manipulation-by-story. Empathy is the answer, he says, yet he can’t show any for Donald Trump.

The British artist, whose ‘His Own Worst Enemy’ show opens at White Cube Hong Kong on November 24, says he is drawn to the polarity his NFT series ‘The Currency’ is creating.

Hannah Bent, author of When Things are Alive They Hum, about two sisters living apart, one with Down syndrome, never expected to be back living in Hong Kong. ‘Being a third-culture kid … I don’t know where I’m from,’ she says.

Graphic designer turned photographer Marcel Heijnen talks about how he ended up in Hong Kong, his book series stemming from photos of shop cats and why dog people are more racist than cat folk.

We get closer to artists by talking about what they wear, says author Charlie Porter, who’s collected revealing threads about – and, crucially, photographs of – artistic attire and stitched them whimsically together.

The music director of the Hong Kong and New York philharmonics enjoyed family time during his absence from conducting – he was on hand to give his father lifesaving CPR – and plans to do less globetrotting in future.

They perform an essential task, moving bulky loads – of household waste and other things – on Hong Kong’s crowded streets, dodging traffic every day. Six photographers set out to draw attention to their plight.

A writer addresses what the Hong Kong landmark came to represent, both to her personally and the wider world, as it sent and received tidings, be they bad, sad or glad.

Hong Kong hawker Old Mary went from dealing with foreign seamen to owning a string of properties and a furniture factory. TVB actor Stephen Au’s musical tribute brought her story to the stage.

The Seattle-based author gives less quarter to her white readers in the follow-up to her 2018 bestseller. ‘I did wrestle with should I go away, should I be silent,’ she admits.

The new director of the Hong Kong Academy for Performing Arts, Gillian Choa, tells Fionnuala McHugh about growing up in the city and her varied early career that led her into arts education.

In his first novel, poet Kit Fan takes inspiration from his Hong Kong childhood and the transitional days after the Sino-British Joint Declaration as the former squatter neighbourhood of Diamond Hill faced an uncertain future.

In his Academy Award-nominated short film Do Not Split, Anders Hammer set out to ‘show the atmosphere in the streets’. Joshua Bischof’s Burn With Us is 89 minutes of mayhem. Ai Weiwei’s Cockroach focuses on creative aspects of the protests.

It took author more than a decade to write the book, and the narrative is both helped and hindered by his immense personal investment.

Hong Kong filmmaker Elizabeth Lo’s documentary Stray follows three Istanbul street dogs and their relationships with three homeless teenagers from Syria. She explains why it was shot from the dogs’ level.

Winnie Tsang worked her way up from secretary at Golden Harvest to head of film distribution at Golden Scene, which brought Hong Kong movies such as The Ring and Kim Ki-duk’s violent The Isle. Now she’s opened a cinema, fulfilling a dream.

After missing out on being crowned Esquire magazine’s Best Dressed Real Man in America, law professor Richard Thompson Ford decided to examine what we wear and how that has evolved in tandem with political control and social change.

Co-commissioned by the Hong Kong Arts Festival, Scott Silven’s interactive performance ‘The Journey’ takes audiences on a virtual exploration of Scotland – and their own memories.

She created ‘land art’ before it became a movement; she was an eco-feminist before it became a term. And this month, Vicuña’s works can be seen simultaneously in three Asian cities.

A writer delves into Christmases past and present and near and far as Hong Kong, once again, faces an unknown future.

For his 70th birthday, designer Alan Chan filled his loft-turned-private museum, Space 27, with 400 pieced from his wildly eclectic collection.

Pauline Harmange’s polemic against men, with all its contradictions and incompleteness, would not have come to the world’s attention had it not been for a man intent on taking offence without even reading it.

The Taiwanese actor and director reflects on the influence of childhood as she looks back on her 50 years in front of and behind the camera.

After 18 years as the orchestra’s music director, Yip Wing-sie was due to step down this year, but like her farewell tour of Germany, the pandemic has postponed her departure.

Spotted at 17 on Fifth Avenue, Hsiang became a model for Diana Vreeland, then a stylist, and worked for Harper’s Bazaar and Elle. In between she was assistant to Valentino.

Vogue China’s editor-in-chief has taken the magazine from its launch issue to a readership of two million. She nearly turned down the job for a career in law.

Mentally disabled Yu Man-hon was 15 when he went missing at the border of Hong Kong and mainland China 20 years ago and has not been seen since. A reporter who followed the case recalls the experience.

Sonia Cheng, granddaughter of billionaire New World Development founder Cheng Yu-tung, says people want to get back to normal life as she prepares to open her new private members’ club Carlyle & Co at the Rosewood Hong Kong.

For same-sex couple Richard and David, the eight-year wait for a child has been interminable and opaque. Now their lawyer wants to turn theirs into a test case against the Social Welfare Department.