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Book Review: In Search of My Homeland: A Memoir of a Chinese Labor Camp by Er Tai Gao
Chinese intellectual's memoir reflects how even aesthetics are perceived as a threat by totalitarian regimes.
Read More »Book Review: The Sugarless Plum: A Ballerina’s Triumph Over Diabetes by Zippora Karz
Dancing in a ballet company while struggling with diabetes
Read More »Book Review: Manhood for Amateurs: The Pleasures and Regrets of a Husband, Father and Son by Michael Chabon
Chabon on being a son, husband and father
Read More »Book Review: The Sixties by Jenny Diski
British author uses memoir approach to ponder if "The Sixties" had lasting meaning.
Read More »Book Review: Beg, Borrow, Steal: A Writer’s Life by Michael Greenberg
"Beg, Borrow, Steal" will be a bestseller today and a classic inspiration tomorrow, like the work of Bellow and Kerouac.
Read More »Book Review: My Life in France by Julia Child with Alex Prud’homme
Read the book before you see Meryl Streep as Julia Child in the movie Julie & Julia.
Read More »Book Review: Honor Thy Father by Gay Talese
The story of the son of a Mafia don growing up in the insular world occupied by the Bonanno family.
Read More »Book Review: Up at the Villa by Linda Dini Jenkins
Sweet essays, drawings, photos and poems accompany a travel narrative
Read More »Book Review: Not Becoming My Mother by Ruth Reichl
Ruth Reichl opens her mother’s diaries for the first time, on what would have been her mother’s 100th birthday.
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