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J. D. Vance’s Contemptuous Conversion Memoir
Thiel donated a record-setting fifteen million dollars to Vance’s successful 2022 bid for Ohio senator, but his largesse on this score…
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In Her Memoir, Jill Biden Continues to Avoid Reality
The best rationale for First Lady memoirs is that the domestic details they offer can serve as a lever, lifting the reader from the…
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What’s Missing from Belle Burden’s Best-Selling Memoir, “Strangers”
Margaret Ryznar, a visiting professor at Brooklyn Law School who specializes in trusts and estates, had a somewhat different view on the…
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59 Celebrity Memoirs That Are Actually Worth Reading
The celebrity memoir boom is here to stay: From Britney Spears to Prince Harry, Ina Garten to Cher, it seems like just about everyone is…
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Author Lidia Yuknavitch on Having Her Memoir Adapted By Kristen Stewart
Lidia Yuknavitch: It’s pretty mind-blowing. I don’t really think of it the way that maybe other people do; I think Kristen made her own…
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Anthony Hopkins’s Beckettian Memoir
Hamlet, to say the least, was in a similar pickle, and it’s almost comically appropriate that Hopkins’s memoir should be so…
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The Muscular Compassion of “Paper Girl”
In her new book, Beth Macy returns to her home town of Urbana, Ohio, using it as a ground zero for understanding right-wing…
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Tim Curry Does the Time Warp
It does feel kind of like a play. Even people who haven’t seen it know Madeline Kahn’s “flames on the side of my face” speech. What was…
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In An Exclusive Excerpt from Her Memoir, Arundhati Roy Writes of Her Early Upbrining
Mother Mary Comes to Me begins with Roy’s childhood, in which she recounts moving from Assam, India, to the hill station town of Ooty, and…
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A Campaign Memoir by Kamala Harris Is Officially Headed Our Way
Former Vice President Kamala Harris is hardly resting on her laurels after her historic presidential run last year: On Thursday, Simon &…
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A Memoir of Working-Class Britain Wrings Playfulness from Pain
The escape from working-class life has good narrative pedigree, a classic form—beginning with the idea of escape itself. It’s something…
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Catherine Lacey’s Disappointing Fusion of Fiction and Memoir
Much of the issue here is that Lacey sketches her characters too vaguely for either of them to say something precise. At times, it’s hard…
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James Frey’s New Cancelled-Guy Sex Novel Is as Bad as It Sounds
The author page of “Next to Heaven,” James Frey’s new novel, breathlessly notes that Frey “was called America’s Most Notorious Author by…
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Catherine Lacey’s Infinite Regress
A Möbius strip, a looped surface with a single continuous side, is often formed by cutting a long, thin piece of paper and joining its…
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Barbra Streisand on “The Secret of Life”
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Yiyun Li’s Unsparing Memoir of Life After Two Sons’ Suicides
Li, who left China in 1996 and now writes in her “adopted language” of English, doesn’t immediately appear to struggle with inarticulacy.…
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In Her New Memoir, ‘How to Lose Your Mother,’ Molly Jong-Fast Charts a Bold New Path By Examining Old Family Ties
What was the spark behind you wanting to tell this story now? I wanted to write this book because I feel like this moment in midlife for…
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Read an Exclusive Excerpt From Tommy Dorfman’s New Memoir, ‘Maybe This Will Save Me’
Back in the city, it went on like this—tiring, depressing, strange, numb—for a few weeks. In February, I was arrested for drug possession…
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Hamish Bowles on Keith McNally’s Upcoming Memoir, ‘I Regret Almost Everything’
On November 26, 2016, Keith McNally had a stroke. Or, as he writes in his new, revelatory memoir, I Regret Almost Everything (Gallery),…
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Kyle Abraham’s Extraordinary Dance Memoir
Kyle Abraham is one of today’s most sought-after choreographers. He has been on the downtown contemporary-dance scene for more than two…
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A Novelist’s Unnerving Memoir of Disordered Eating
“My Good Bright Wolf,” a new memoir by the novelist Sarah Moss, begins in dishabille. A narrator is speaking to herself in the second…