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Autobiography and memoir

August 2024

  • Author Jessica Anthony

    In brief: The Most; The Ghost Lake; Anansi’s Gold – reviews

  • Frame in her early 40s.

    From poverty, psychiatric hospital and writing in a shed to literary stardom: Janet Frame at 100

  • As the daughter of Dore Schary; the head of MGM in the '50s; Jill Robinson had special status growin<br>CANADA - MARCH 27: As the daughter of Dore Schary; the head of MGM in the '50s; Jill Robinson had special status growing up in Hollywood. But; she says; 'I was born an alcoholic and an addict.' Her experiences make for fascinating books. (Photo by Frank Lennon/Toronto Star via Getty Images)

    Jill Robinson obituary

  • Moon Unit and Frank Zappa interviewed onMTV in 1982.

    Earth to Moon by Moon Unit Zappa review – rock and a hard place

  • Book of the day
    My Dear Kabul review – inspirational resilience in an Afghan women’s writing group

  • Charles Blackman was devoted to my mother. Their love story needs to be told

    Christabel Blackman

  • Book of the day
    Badenheim 1939; Katerina; The Story of a Life by Aharon Appelfeld review – survivors’ tales full of beauty and pain

  • Home Is Where We Start by Susanna Crossman review – growing up in a world without rules

  • In brief: The Wedding People; Ingrained; On the Brink – review

  • Observer book of the week
    The Art of Power by Nancy Pelosi review – politics with principles

  • ‘A spy in the land of the privileged’: why Eve Babitz’s cult Hollywood memoir still matters 50 years on

  • ‘I try not to think about dying’: Sven-Göran Eriksson on his terminal illness, scandal, and why he feels sorry for the next England manager

  • Book of the day
    You’re Embarrassing Yourself by Desiree Akhavan review

  • Liza Minnelli announces memoir because documentaries ‘didn’t get it right’

  • ‘The drugs were so new, they weren’t illegal yet’: the debauched rise of New York’s wildest bar

  • Book of the day
    Earth to Moon by Moon Unit Zappa review – waspish, funny account of life as Frank Zappa’s daughter

  • Rosa Regàs obituary

  • Let’s Be Honest by Jess Phillips review – manifesto for a better politics speaks plainly but falls flat

  • The Outrun review – ambitious staging of Amy Liptrot’s Orkney addiction memoir

  • Darcus Howe’s son Darcus Beese and his activist mother, Barbara: ‘He was imbued with the spirit of the struggle’

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