Biography
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Editors' picks
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Whatever happened to the golden age of biography? And what is the future for a genre in which the best subjects have already been written about, time and again, asks Kathryn Hughes -
Ian McEwan on his family's astonishing story and the brother he never knew he had
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After publishing his childhood memoir last year, John Sutherland is now dreaming about his long-dead mother every night
Most recent
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Aug 17 2008:
Review: James Lees-Milne edited by Michael Bloch
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Aug 17 2008:
Review: Twenty Thousand Roads by David Meyer
Not only was he a charming hellraiser, but Gram Parsons reimagined American rock music says Sean O'Hagan -
Aug 16 2008:
Suze Rotolo was just 17 when she fell in love with Bob Dylan, who found her 'the most erotic thing' he'd ever seen. Through the photograph on his Freewheelin' album cover, they came to embody the ideal of the carefree 60s couple. Finally, she is telling her story. Richard Williams met her in New York's East Village
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Aug 16 2008:
Review: Come on Shore and We Will Kill and Eat You All by Christina Thompson
CK Stead assesses a Bostonian's memoir of marriage to a Maori -
Aug 16 2008:
Review: Napoleon and St Helena by Johannes Willms
Sara Wheeler enjoys a wryly entertaining guide to the emperor's final domain -
Aug 16 2008:
Review: Casanova by Ian Kelly
Kathryn Hughes admires the energy and brio in a new life of Casanova -
Aug 16 2008:
Review: Golda Meir: The Iron Lady by Elinor Burkett
As prime minister of Israel, Golda Meir's greatest talent was for saying no. By Avi Shlaim -
Aug 16 2008:
Review: To the Castle and Back by Václav Havel
Ian Pindar follows Václav Havel's journey from dissident to president -
Aug 16 2008:
Memories are made of this at Edinburgh, blood and bottoms to get boys reading, an attack on Obama
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Aug 12 2008:
Anne Perkins: Ffion Hague's book about the women in Lloyd George's life has beaten Cherie Blair's autobiography in a survey of MPs' summer reading
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Aug 10 2008:
Review: Selective Memory: An Autobiography by Katharine Whitehorn
This lively autobiography is a joy to read, where things are either 'super' or 'grotty' and everyone is 'great buddies' says Katie Toms
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Aug 10 2008:
Review: I Was Told There'd Be Cake by Sloane Crosley
Anyone who can remember their twenties will find a reflection of their past somewhere in this book says Rebecca Seal -
Aug 10 2008:
Review: What I Talk About When I Talk About Running by Haruki Murakami
Haruki Murakami runs miles every day to keep fit for writing. Here he combines his two loves says Jason Cowley -
Aug 10 2008:
Review: Samuel Johnson by Peter Martin
Is there anything new to learn about Dr Johnson from the perspective of the 21st century? Well, possible depression and Tourette's, for starters ... says John Sutherland -
Aug 9 2008:
Review: London Lights by James Hamilton
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