My Roman Year by André Aciman review – Memento amore | Autobiography and memoir

My Roman Year by André Aciman review – Memento amore | Autobiography and memoir

‘We were elsewhere people,” André Aciman writes in this memoir of the year he spent in Rome in the mid-1960s. Aged 15, he left Egypt with his deaf mother and younger brother... Read more »
My Good Bright Wolf: A Memoir by Sarah Moss review – an interrogation of an eating disorder | Autobiography and memoir

My Good Bright Wolf: A Memoir by Sarah Moss review – an interrogation of an eating disorder | Autobiography and memoir

Sarah Moss’s memoir, the story of how her upbringing developed in her a lifelong, destructive relationship to food, is full of daring. It is a complicated tale and her telling is many-sided,... Read more »
From a new Murakami to a memoir by Cher: the best books of the autumn | Books

From a new Murakami to a memoir by Cher: the best books of the autumn | Books

Fiction Creation Lake by Rachel Kushner (Jonathan Cape, out now) Spy-for-hire Sadie Smith arrives in rural France, tasked with infiltrating a group of eco-activists. There she follows a beguiling trail of emails... Read more »
Salman Rushdie’s knife attack memoir longlisted for Baillie Gifford prize | Books

Salman Rushdie’s knife attack memoir longlisted for Baillie Gifford prize | Books

Salman Rushdie’s memoir about surviving being stabbed is among the books longlisted for the 2024 Baillie Gifford prize for nonfiction. Rushdie’s book, titled Knife, recounts the August 2022 attack, which happened on... Read more »
From poverty, psychiatric hospital and writing in a shed to literary stardom: Janet Frame at 100 | Autobiography and memoir

From poverty, psychiatric hospital and writing in a shed to literary stardom: Janet Frame at 100 | Autobiography and memoir

In February 1975 the New Zealand writer Janet Frame was the subject of a rare interview for television conducted by the journalist Michael Noonan. This relaxed, intimate retrospective of her life and work... Read more »
Salman Rushdie’s knife attack memoir longlisted for Baillie Gifford prize | Books

Melania Trump to tell her story in memoir scheduled for this fall | Books

The former first lady Melania Trump has a memoir coming out this fall, Melania, billed by her office as “a powerful and inspiring story of a woman who has carved her own... Read more »
Salman Rushdie’s knife attack memoir longlisted for Baillie Gifford prize | Books

Sister in Law by Harriet Wistrich review – in defence of women | Autobiography and memoir

In 2011, Harriet Wistrich got a call about Sally Challen, who had been convicted of the murder of her husband, Richard. Sally had bludgeoned him to death with a hammer at their Surrey home... Read more »
Coming Home by Brittney Griner review – from hoop dreams to a living hell | Autobiography and memoir

Coming Home by Brittney Griner review – from hoop dreams to a living hell | Autobiography and memoir

The text messages that open Brittney Griner’s memoir are a chilling short story. “Hey baby I got stopped by security at customs.” “If you don’t hear from me for like one hour... Read more »
My Family: The Memoir by David Baddiel review – sex, lies and the making of a standup | Autobiography and memoir

My Family: The Memoir by David Baddiel review – sex, lies and the making of a standup | Autobiography and memoir

In early 2015, a couple of months after his mother died, David Baddiel wrote to his younger brother, Dan, a sometime taxi driver in New York, setting out his plans for “a... Read more »
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