Charles Spencer’s book is as much about him as about the sister he claims to speak for. Beneath the score-settling, it’s a story of a brother still grieving.
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Patricia Cornwell’s uneven memoir is part misery memoir, part confessional. It tells of celebrity encounters and wild fame – but her childhood is a tough read.
Former child star Jennette McCurdy’s gross, gripping debut novel shows there is no single, correct way to engage with stories about female desire and power.
Rachael Mead’s body once carried her across Antarctic ice sheets. At 55, she set out to reclaim her resilience – and what she discovered was surprising.
Sad Tiger and Trauma Plot are two stunning memoirs by rape survivors who immerse themselves in art and literature. They both transcend ‘art as therapy’.
Allegations of untruth over The Salt Path raise questions of what we expect from truth in memoir, in this age of ‘fake news’. What is the contract with the reader?
Eighty years on from VE Day, it’s crucial we remember how ethnically diverse those veterans were and how much they can teach us about the meaning of life.
Blue Origin’s all-female space flight crew, which includes popstar Katy Perry, is set to take off this spring.
In Groomed, Sonia Orchard reappraises the social and cultural factors that allow sexual exploitation to persist.
Cristina Rivera Garza’s sister Liliana was killed by a jealous ex-boyfriend at the age of 20. Her book about this crime is both deeply personal and driven by a wider political purpose.
The film, set in Australia, explores love, loss and life’s imperfections against some very recognisable backdrops.
Stein’s memoir Moving Music is as colourful and compelling as the famous artists he toured with.
It is light on political gossip, big on family dinners and highlights some significant policy achievements. Dennis Altman reads The Truths We Hold: An American Journey.
Many of the book’s themes, including structural racism, inequalities and poverty are as topical now as 30 years ago.
Christopher Glasl’s withdrawn memoir of his time in Special Operations Group raises questions about publisher fact checking. How do they do it? And can it be improved?
These columns demonstrate that Noni Jabavu’s concerns from 1970s are still relevant today.
When the global press first reported on Prince Harry’s Spare, they were doing so from the Spanish translation – an expert explains the surprisingly significant impact this had on its interpretation.
Kim Mahood understands that frontiers have always been places of interchange, where overt power disparities often come disquietingly undone.
As material objects, diaries give scholars an intimate look into their subjects’ lives, including handwriting and mementos. What if diaries in the future are nothing but insubstantial digital ghosts?
In her account of displacement, childhood abuse, pain and healing, Janine Mikosza recreates from memory the spaces she has inhabited and, in doing so, reinvents the memoir form.
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