Biography

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• Ace reporter investigates the lost years of his life as a crack addict

  Jul 27 2008:

  New York Times reporter David Carr's forthcoming book is a searing study of his struggles with drug addiction

• A warm view of a dark novelist

  Jul 27 2008:

  Paperback of the week: Robin McKie on Through a Glass Darkly

• Agatha Christie

  Jul 26 2008:

  Review: Agatha Christie by Laura Thompson

• A Voyage Round John Mortimer

  Jul 26 2008:

  Review: A Voyage Round John Mortimer by Valerie Grove

• Children of a lesser god

  Jul 26 2008:

  Review: Stalin's Children
  A telling family memoir impresses Simon Callow with its vivid evocations of life back in the USSR

• Digested Read podcast: Life With My Sister Madonna by Christopher Ciccone

  Audio (6min 23sec): Jul 23 2008: Now in podcast form, John Crace presents his cult G2 column in which he summarises and satirises recently published novels

• Life With My Sister Madonna by Christopher Ciccone

  Jul 22 2008:

  John Crace: 'My relationship with Madonna takes a turn for the worse when she marries the fat phoney, because Guy can't deal with the fact that he really fancies me'

• I'm going out to lunch. I may be some time

  Jul 13 2008:

  Review: Grub Street Irregular - Scenes From Literary Life by Jeremy Lewis

  Jeremy Lewis offers an affectionate portrait of the golden age of publishing and the larger-than-life characters who dominated it, writes Philip French

• The servant's tale

  Jul 12 2008:

  Review: Journey to Nowhere by Eva Figes
  Anne Karpf finds grief and rage in Eva Figes's account of wartime exile in London

• The daughter's burden

  Jul 12 2008:

  Review: Memoirs of a Not So Dutiful Daughter by Jenni Murray
  Jenni Murray's memoir of an annus horribilis verges on the heroic, says Michele Hanson

• Chips off the old bloc

  Jul 12 2008:

  Review: Yeltsin by Timothy J Colton
  Jonathan Steele is left asking whether vision or grudges drove Yeltsin

• Hitler's filmmaker

  Jul 6 2008:

  Sean O'Hagan on Leni: The Life and Work of Leni Riefenstahl

• Zionism in the dock

  Jul 6 2008:

  Review: Journey to Nowhere by Eva Figes

  Eva Figes launches a vituperative attack on Israel

• Losing hope

  Jul 6 2008:

  At seven year old, Andrew Bridge was taken from his mentally ill mother and sent to a notorious children's home in Los Angeles. This is his story of survival

• 'Mum, why is everything so ugly?'

  Jul 5 2008:

  Review: Street Without a Name by Kapka Kassabova

  Misha Glenny is impressed by a poignant memoir of growing up in communist east Europe

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