Biography, Autobiography & Memoir

When Julia Child and James Beard first ate at the acclaimed Manhattan restaurant, Felidia, eight months after its opening in 1981, a star-struck Chef Lidia Bastianich came to their table to introdu

Fifty years after its release, Stanley Kubrick’s 2001: A Space Odyssey upholds its iconic status and for good reason.

British author George Orwell once described hospitals as “ante-chambers to the grave.” It’s not difficult to understand why.

"Afterward Brzezinski was asked if he had woken his wife. “No,” he said, “if she was going to die, better it was in her sleep.”"

Before Chef Alon Shaya and his former boss Chef John Besh recently and very publicly dissolved their business partnership, most New Orleans food lovers simply knew Shaya as the Jewish guy who turne

“The Presidency of Barack Obama: A First Historical Assessment is a welcome and useful first look by first-rate historians at the still very incompletely excavated record of the hi

Early in his new book about the late Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia, University of California law and politics professor Richard L.

In addition to being a prolific biographer, and LGBTQ historian, Martin Duberman has published his candid memoirs, Midlife Queer, Cures, and most recently his diary Waiting to Land

Such is the molten hot fury of Syria’s now almost seven-year conflict, that it seems hard to think back to how things were before.

“In Full Flight succeeds as a fascinating character study, a deep ethical quandary, and an engrossing story.”

Her quarry was a white male, 5’ 9” to 5’ 11”, lean but with the athletic build of a swimmer, size 9–9½ shoes, dirty blond hair, Type A blood.

This beautiful and horrifying memoir should be required reading by anyone who feels that immigration is the nation’s number one issue right now.