Biography, Autobiography & Memoir

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The vibrant, highly graphic cover and satisfying dense shape and weight of Michael Craig-Martin: The Complete Prints and Multiples certainly signal that this is the definitive cof

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“There is a kind of sterility, a lifelessness, that emanates from his career, a reflection of the spiritual barrenness that marks power seekers.

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“Pamuk compels the reader to gaze at his colorful drawings and, almost like an afterthought or footnote, offer a paragraph or line of wisdom or autobiographical insight on each page . .

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Trial by Ambush is a historic case study of prosecutorial behavior at one of its ugliest moments—a moment that served no one, not the innocent, the guilty, or society in general.”

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“Oller has produced another work of dramatic reality and reading far superior to Hollywood myth and popular misunderstandings.”

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“DeGaulle’s writing about politics and war is stirring and reflective, poignant and inspiring, passionate and stoic, detailed and contextual.”

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Connecting emotionally with a memoir is a tricky thing.

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"Crystalline and poetic, philosophical and evocative, each short section of such brilliance it demands being savored and read over and over again."

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Throughout the 19th century, America dealt with the self-inflicted curse of slavery and its legacy in different ways, both before and after Emancipation.

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“speaks to both the mystery and thrill of becoming completely preoccupied with someone else and its accompanying pains and intense pleasures.”

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“Dying really didn’t hurt,” Navalny’s memoir begins, as he describes lying on the filthy floor of an airplane in August 2020 flying to Moscow from Tomsk, Siberia, where, he had been poisoned by Put

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“a fascinating comparison between these two men and their development under the pressures of war.”

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In 2002, Bill Zehme conducted the first interview with Johnny Carson since his retirement from The Tonight Show a decade earlier.

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With chapters named after each of Hemingway’s five greatest lovers, author Nancy W.

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“Fascinating and well-written, Eden Undone expertly weaves together this complex tale of a doomed utopian vision. It’s compelling and unsettling and hard to put down.”

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“For anyone interested in the B-29 and the men who flew it during the closing period of the war in the Pacific, this is a fascinating and deeply personal book . . .”

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If you’re looking for a juicy exposé about the Trump family, you won’t find it in this autobiography.

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“’Whether it’s “God Bless America” or blessing God in synagogue, Shulem is always singing.’”

Everyone has a story. . . .

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“The young girl lay tucked in her bed, her small body wrapped in the black habit of a Benedictine nun. Under her cap, her hair was clipped short in a quick and rough job.

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In her latest essay collection, We’re Alone, award-winning Haitian writer Edwidge Danticat has shared eight powerful essays that bring to life Haiti’s history and culture, the Haitian dias

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written with sharp humor the perspective of someone who’s seen it all and knows it.”

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“a timely, sensitive, informative, and important memoir, particularly for those who are straddling the political fence . . .”

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“More than any Lewis biography to date, John Lewis: A Life captures that life’s complex, magnificent, and underappreciated second act.”

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In The Use of Photography, the Nobel Prize-winning French author Annie Ernaux, following up on her recent book, The Young Man, continues her reporting of transient love affairs wi

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