Culture
J. D. Vance’s Contemptuous Conversion Memoir
Thiel donated a record-setting fifteen million dollars to Vance’s successful 2022 bid for Ohio senator, but his largesse on this score…
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Culture
What’s Missing from Belle Burden’s Best-Selling Memoir, “Strangers”
Margaret Ryznar, a visiting professor at Brooklyn Law School who specializes in trusts and estates, had a somewhat different view on the…
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Joan Lowell and the Birth of the Modern Literary Fraud
Sensing that she was losing the argument, Lowell rushed at Colcord, winding up to throw a punch before stopping short a few feet away from…
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What Can Conversion Memoirs Tell Us?
Eventually, Ash finds in herself a gradual attraction, not only to religious practice but to the wild disharmonies of belief. Her mother…
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Does Olivia Nuzzi Make Good Copy?
In addition to not being a tell-all, “American Canto” is not a book about Trump, nor is it about politics, as Nuzzi establishes in an…
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Life at the Edge of a Famous Family
This comparatively reduced terrain has often served as complement to her husband’s much grander vistas. “I am the observer, the audience…
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Malala’s Favorite Mother-Daughter Memoirs
When the Nobel Peace Prize–winning activist Malala Yousafzai was fifteen, she was shot by a member of the Taliban for advocating for…
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How the Supreme Court Defines Liberty
Barrett, like most originalists, insists that the Court’s 1954 ruling in Brown v. Board of Education can be defended on originalist…
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How Lionel Richie Mastered the Love Song
Listen and subscribe: Apple | Spotify | Google | Wherever You Listen The celebrity memoir is a form of which I’m reflexively skeptical.…
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The Strange, Cinematic Life of Charlie Sheen
“I think there’s so many stories and images ingrained in people’s minds about the concept of me,” the actor Charlie Sheen tells the camera…
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Coming of Age in Panic Mode
The books of Michael Clune, or at least the ones written for a nonacademic audience, have focussed on very particular chapters of his…
Business
Sigrid Nunez on the Beauty of Narrative Restraint
“Plot, shmot,” the writer and editor William Maxwell once said to John Updike. Sigrid Nunez couldn’t agree more. She used to tell her…
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The Battling Memoirs of The New Yorker
In the beginning God created the Heaven and the Earth. Before doing so, however, he sat around with the boys in the bar and thrashed out…
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Women Who Made Amanda Seyfried Feel Less Alone
As an actress, Amanda Seyfried regularly inhabits the lives of others, real and imagined. As a reader, too, Seyfried gravitates toward…
Culture
A Novelist’s Unnerving Memoir of Disordered Eating
“My Good Bright Wolf,” a new memoir by the novelist Sarah Moss, begins in dishabille. A narrator is speaking to herself in the second…