Patrick Joyce is emeritus professor of history at the University of Manchester and one of the leading social historians of his generation. The illustrious referees for his first academic job in the... Read more »
In 2014, the bodies of nearly 800 babies and small children were found in the septic tank of a former mother and baby home in Tuam, Galway. They had been deposited over... Read more »
Missing Persons must have been a very difficult book to write, for certainly it is difficult to read. This is not due to any defects of style or execution – it is... Read more »
The posthumous memoir of Lisa Marie Presley written in collaboration with her daughter Riley Keough will be published later this year. The as yet untitled book about Lisa Marie’s life as the... Read more »
The trial of the man accused of stabbing Salman Rushdie has been postponed because of the publication of the author’s memoir about the attack. A lawyer representing Hadi Matar, who was charged... Read more »
“Should I be allowed to make this said?” Blake Butler writes in his new memoir, “Molly.” By the time he asks, it’s too late. He has already written more than two hundred... Read more »
Our era runs on biography. Stories—in film adaptations, novels, and pop songs alike—are received as the clarion calls of so many “voices.” The myth of an unencumbered, authentic voice persists. Even if... Read more »
Seventy years ago, before she was galactically famous, before she dropped an “a” from her first name, before she was a Broadway ingénue, before her nose bump was aspirational, before she changed... Read more »
Dear BookBrowsers, In this issue, we review the latest from author Tania James. Loot follows a young Muslim woodcarver on an epic journey beginning in 18th-century India, while exploring colonialism, social marginalization... Read more »