Musician, mother, widow: this moving account of an extraordinarily creative life details the highs and lows of walking the earth as a woman.
Articles on Memoir
Displaying 21 - 40 of 175 articles
In The Snag, Tessa McWatt reflects on grief in all its multifaceted forms – from her mother’s dementia to global climate grief – as she looks at how trees communicate.
Unapologetically Ita sketches the public life of a person who gets things done. An account of her career as a journalist, however, is a job for another author.
Not all early 20th century Jewish immigrants to South Africa were commercially successful.
Even if you’ve never heard of Horses or indeed Patti Smith, this is an album that you should listen to.
Patti Smith’s Just Kids was voted a best book of the 21st century. Her new memoir covers her whole life, charting deep love, unbearable loss and creative renewal.
Mandy Sayer’s charming, challenging musician father is central to her four memoirs – including her shimmering latest, No Dancing in the Lift.
In her campaign memoir, Kamala Harris reveals her true thoughts on Joe Biden, takes us behind the scenes of her presidential candidacy and dishes the occasional dirt.
David Brooks, winner of the 2024 Prime Minister’s Literary Award for Poetry, recalls his friendship with AD Hope and recounts falling in love with Patrick White.
In Elizabeth Gilbert’s shocking new confessional memoir, she falls in love with her dying best friend, enables her addiction – and once again blows up her own life.
Roy’s portrait of her terrifying yet courageous mother is at the centre of this memoir, which charts her own embrace of danger as an activist-writer.
A memoir of the author’s childhood spent climbing with her father, a much-travelled oil reservoir engineer.
Winn may have broken the ‘autobiographical pact’ – a ‘contract’ of truth between the author and the reader.
Don’t, whatever you do, parent like Erica Jong. Her daughter’s memoir of the ‘worst year’ of her life is fiercely loving – but she’s horrified at how she was raised.
‘If an abyss is where I shall be for the rest of my life’, writes Yiyun Li, ‘the abyss is my habitat.’ Her book is a major contribution to literature on mourning.
Ageing, especially women’s ageing, is often viewed negatively. In her memoir Blooming, Carol Lefevre critiques different forms of ageism.
In Always Home, Always Homesick, Hannah Kent reveals how Iceland defines and divides her identity as a writer.
For millennia, writes Joshua Gilbert, Indigenous people had a systematic way of organising the land. Where are their voices in discussions of sustainable farming?
Reading Joan Didion’s posthumously published new book feels like eavesdropping on private marital conversations. It’s revealing, raw and haunting.
Heather Taylor Johnson’s mother had a difficult, lonely childhood. How would it have been different if her half-sister had grown up with her?
Top contributors
-
Adjunct Researcher, English and Writing, University of Tasmania
-
Professor of History, School of Humanities, Creative Industries and Social Sciences, University of Newcastle
-
Visiting Fellow, Centre for Cultural and Creative Research, University of Canberra, University of Canberra
-
Casual Academic, Creative Writing and English Literature, Flinders University
-
Senior Lecturer in Humanities, University of Southern Queensland
-
Emeritus Professor of Creative Writing, The University of Melbourne
-
Senior Lecturer in Creative Writing, University of Wollongong
-
Senior Lecturer, Discipline of English and Writing, University of Sydney
-
Casual Academic, Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences, University of Technology Sydney
-
Associate Dean Indigenous and Professor of Publishing and Communications, The University of Melbourne
-
Historian, The University of Melbourne
-
Senior Lecturer in Creative Writing, University of Sydney
-
PhD Candidate and literary critic, The University of Melbourne
-
Personal Chair, Literary Studies, Deakin University
-
Professor in Gender History and the History of Sexuality, The University of Queensland