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Memoir

  1. book review
    Salman Rushdie Did Not Want to Write This BookIn Knife: Meditations After an Attempted Murder, the many incarnations of Rushdie are at war with one another.
    By Sanjena Sathian
  2. chapters
    ‘The Last Samurai’ Director Ed Zwick on Tom Cruise’s ‘Intimidating’ EnergyThe Last Samurai director Ed Zwick on the “joyous, challenging, and exhausting” experience of working with Tom Cruise.
    By Ed Zwick
  3. 2024 preview
    23 Books We Can’t Wait to Read in 2024With new wonders from Rachel Cusk, Percival Everett, Tommy Orange, and more.
  4. best of 2023
    The Best Books of 2023Ten authors whose original ideas challenged our preconceived notions of the world.
    By Maris Kreizman
  5. celebrity memoirs
    Jada Pinkett-Smith Is the Queen of Contradictory SpinPinkett-Smith isn’t claiming to come clean. She’s just “taking back her narrative.”
    By Fran Hoepfner
  6. celebrity memoirs
    Everything Julia Fox Says About ‘The Artist’ in Her MemoirYou have one guess who he is.
    By Kate Lindsay
  7. encounter
    Werner Herzog Turns the Lens on HimselfThe filmmaker famous for bending the truth tries his hand at memoir.
    By Zak Cheney-Rice
  8. fall preview 2023
    24 Books We Can’t Wait to Read This FallThere’s even a book by Babs.
  9. celebrity memoirs
    Elliot Page Says a Homophobic ‘Famous Actor’ Sexually Harassed HimAnd more revelations from Pageboy.
    By Zoe Guy
  10. reprint
    Matthew Perry Will Remove Keanu Reeves References in Future Memoir Versions“Any future versions of the book will not have his name in it.”
    By Alejandra Gularte
  11. bad mormon
    The Mormon Church Won’t Let Heather Gay Make MerchThe Bad Mormon author and reality TV star says her latest drama with the church is “all about the merch.”
    By Claudia Rosenbaum
  12. books
    Hilary Duff Calls Aaron Carter’s Posthumous Memoir ‘Unverified Clickbait’The memoir’s publication has been delayed, “out of respect for the Carter family.”
    By Alejandra Gularte
  13. book review
    A Memoir of Prison Time, Delivered With a Note of ApologyIn Corrections in Ink, Keri Blakinger writes about the years of addiction and incarceration she lived through before becoming a reporter.
    By John J. Lennon
  14. a long talk
    How Chloé Cooper Jones Changed Her MindIn her memoir Easy Beauty, the writer confronts a subject she’d long avoided: her own experience of disability.
    By Amelia Schonbek
  15. podcast review
    S***hole Country Asks Who Likes to Be in America?A new podcast by an anonymous narrator considers a big choice between two lives and two continents.
    By Nicholas Quah
  16. book excerpt
    My Afternoon With Papa RoachAn excerpt from Tom Scharpling’s new memoir, It Never Ends.
    By Tom Scharpling
  17. chat room
    Rita Moreno Talks Bitterness, Anger, and Loving Show Business AnywayAlong the way, the legendary West Side Story actress credits Marlon Brando with getting her into therapy.
    By Bilge Ebiri
  18. in conversation
    Alison Bechdel Works Out Her IssuesIn her latest book, the graphic memoirist examines her relationship to exercise and, in turn, herself.
    By E. Alex Jung
  19. memoir
    Sleeping With Andy WarholIn 1962, a young poet named John Giorno met the Pop Art god, who in turn made him his first superstar. For a little while, they were in love.
    By John Giorno
  20. book excerpt
    ‘The Unthinkable Has Happened’You learn to believe in your child’s existence. What happens when she’s killed by a piece of your daily environment?
    By Jayson Greene
  21. punctuation
    63 Times a Very Excited Bruce Springsteen Used ALL CAPS in His MemoirHe gets VERY excited!
    By Nick Murray
  22. listen up
    Playlist: The Songs Bruce Springsteen References in Born to RunThe deep cuts and classics. 
    By Nick Murray
  23. in memoriam
    Celebrities React to the Death of Elie WieselWiesel’s many admirers are now mourning his death.
    By Karen Brill
  24. Amy Poehler Is Writing a Book, Out in 2014 Following in the footsteps of her frequent collaborator Tina Fey, Amy Poehler just signed a book deal. AP reports that Poehler is writing a […]
    By Bradford Evans