âWe were elsewhere people,â 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 »
Sarah Mossâs 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 »
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 Rushdieâs memoir about surviving being stabbed is among the books longlisted for the 2024 Baillie Gifford prize for nonfiction. Rushdieâs book, titled Knife, recounts the August 2022 attack, which happened on... Read more »
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 »
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 »
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 »
The text messages that open Brittney Grinerâs memoir are a chilling short story. âHey baby I got stopped by security at customs.â âIf you donât hear from me for like one hour... Read more »
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 âa... Read more »