“She’s such a compassionate describer of her characters with all their flaws,” says the prolific translator, most recently of Júlio Dinis’s “An English Family” and…
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Now You See It: A Magician’s Memoir Promises Truth and Other Lies
AMORALMANA True Story and Other LiesBy Derek DelGaudio Lying is ubiquitous. Why should it be otherwise? There are far more reasons to lie than to…
Latina Girls Dreaming
LATINITASCelebrating 40 Big DreamersBy Juliet Menéndez As a second-generation Dominican child growing up in Harlem, I was steeped in my culture at home. From mangu…
WHAT BOOK would author David Baddiel take to a desert island?
WHAT BOOK would author David Baddiel take to a desert island? Comedian and author David Baddiel is now reading The Last Trial by Scott Turow He…
MUST READS
MUST READS WRITERS & LOVERS by Lily King (Picador £8.99, 336 pp) Writers & Lovers by Lily King (Picador £8.99, 336 pp Casey Peabody is still…
Two Memoirists Explore Abuse and Survival
ASSUME NOTHINGA Story of Intimate ViolenceBy Tanya Selvaratnam CONSENTA MemoirBy Vanessa Springora Even in our chatty, confessional culture, certain subjects are too unwieldly, too difficult,…
True Crime Gets Its Close-Up
TWO TRUTHS AND A LIE A Murder, a Private Investigator, and Her Search for Justice By Ellen McGarrahan368 pp. Random House. $28. “I was totally…
A History of the Comedian Memoir in Nine Books
The comedian memoir has become one of the most crowded genres in publishing. Writing one these days is a nearly mandatory part of a successful…
How silence and secrecy around her race almost tore one woman's life apart
Georgina Lawton was born into a secret. A secret that destabilised her sense of self and threatened to tear her family apart when she finally…
Vauxhall pleasure gardens: Exotic secrets of the seductive fields
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