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Autobiography and memoir

9 June 2024

  • Helen Lederer

    Not That I’m Bitter by Helen Lederer review – funny lessons from the comedy fringe

    The comedian and actor’s memoir, rich in laughs and wisdom, celebrates her knack for being in the right place at the wrong time
  • Oleksandr Mykhed photographed near Kyiv’s central railway station, May 2024.

    Ukrainian author turned soldier Oleksandr Mykhed: ‘This is not Putin’s war. This is a war waged by the whole Russian nation’

    In 2022, the writer was living an ordinary life with his wife in Kyiv. Now, after fleeing his home and volunteering for the army, he’s written a powerful account of the past two years
  • Mishal Husain photographed for the Observer New Review in London by Pål Hansen, May 2024.

    ‘They didn’t dwell on it – they felt so many had suffered more’: Mishal Husain on her family history and the partition of India

    In her new book, written around 3am starts for Radio 4’s Today, the BBC presenter turns her gaze from the daily grind of British politics to her grandparents’ lucky escape

7 June 2024

  • R Derek Black.

    Child of Klan leader on abandoning white nationalism: ‘I am haunted by its legacy’

    R Derek Black unlearned white supremacist ideology, came out as transgender and wrote a memoir about their journey

6 June 2024

  • Michael Richards as Seinfeld’s Kramer in 1990.

    From racist rants to spiritual guru? What we learned from Seinfeld star Michael Richards’s autobiography

  • Debbie Harry and Chris Stein in the Mediasound recording studio, New York, in 1979

    Book of the day
    Under a Rock by Chris Stein review – sex, squalor and superstardom

4 June 2024

  • Bill Gates.

    Bill Gates to tell his ‘origin story’ in memoir

  • Rachel Cusk.

    Where to start with
    Where to start with: Rachel Cusk

3 June 2024

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    John Burnside obituary

  • Orlando Whitfield for Guardian Saturday<br>FIRST USE SAT MAGAZINE - Do not use elsewhere before 20 Apr 2024. Orlando Whitfield shot in London for Guardian Saturday

    All That Glitters by Orlando Whitfield review – how to make an exhibition of yourself

2 June 2024

  • The cover of Amanda Jones' book, featuring the author wearing glasses and a red cardigan, standing in front of a library wall of books

    The US librarian who sued book ban harassers: ‘I decided to fight back’

    After Amanda Jones got death threats for speaking out against censorship, she sued her attackers and wrote a memoir
  • Clare Finney buys a £28 Wagyu beef sandwich from Harrods, London. Photograph by David Levene 19/10/23

    In brief: Lifting Off; The Fellowship of Puzzlemakers; Hungry Heart – review

    A flight attendant’s atmospheric memoir about forbidden love; the beguiling tale of a young fogey’s search for his parents; and food writer Clare Finney’s life in recipes
  • Blondie on Oxford Street, London, 1977 (l-r): Clem Burke, Jimmy Destri, Debbie Harry and Chris Stein.

    ‘I’m a fan of chaos’: Blondie’s Chris Stein on Bowie, Debbie Harry and 50 years in rock’n’roll

    In his candid new memoir, the guitarist talks about the glory period of Parallel Lines and how addiction and loss altered his life

1 June 2024

  • Aamna Mohdin photographed in London, May 2024, for Guardian Saturday magazine. Photographer: Alice Zoo

    ‘Why are you going back, after all we did to get out?’: returning to the Kenyan refugee camp that shaped my childhood

  • Maria Grazia Calandrone<br>Rome, May 18, 2024 - Portrait of Maria Grazia Calandrone, poet, writer, journalist, playwright, visual artist, teacher, author and host for RAI, Italy’s national public broadcaster.

    ‘How could my mother leave her baby and then kill herself?’: author Maria Grazia Calandrone’s quest for answers

May 2024

  • Meryl Streep

    Audiobook of the week
    Tom Lake by Ann Patchett audiobook review – Meryl Streep narrates a bittersweet tale of first love

    A mother reveals her mysterious past in a tale of choice and the roads not taken
  • Questlove, in NYC 2024

    ‘Rapper’s Delight planted a seed for the rest of my life’: Questlove on hoarding, capturing hip-hop history and the Kendrick-Drake beef

    The drummer, DJ and Oscar-winning director is a key custodian of Black culture, with 200,000 records to prove it. So why does he think he’s getting too old for rap music?

    • Darius Rucker on country music, race and drugs: ‘I don’t think anyone went harder than us’

    • Naked Portrait by Rose Boyt review – under Lucian Freud’s gaze

    • Book of the day
      We Will Not Be Saved by Nemonte Nenquimo and Mitch Anderson review – voice of the Amazon

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