Memoir

Arundhati Roy shot to international fame after becoming the first Indian citizen to win the Booker Prize for her novel, 'The God of Small Things'. Her memoir, 'Mother Mary Comes to Me', is a moving account of her relationship with her influential mother.

Lt Gen (Retd) Y.K. Joshi on the Kargil War, his memoir and safeguards for war in the age of social media

Lt Gen (Retd) Yogesh Kumar Joshi—who retired as Northern Army Commander in 2022—on his memoir, key lessons he learnt over his 40 years of service from 1982–2022, the Kargil War and India's relations with neighbouring countries.

Gurcharan Das: I settled for a modest, natural meaning of moksha - another sort of freedom

Gurcharan Das's memoir 'Another Sort of Freedom' brings to a close his search for a flourishing life based on the classical ideal of four goals of life – the purusharthas - artha, dharma, kama and moksha.

Pakistan’s Shahbaz Taseer’s memoir offers a glimpse into a painful personal ordeal & the factional mujahideen world

'Lost to the World', the first-person account of one of Pakistan’s most high-profile and dreadful kidnapping victims, the businessman son of assassinated Punjab (Pakistan) governor Salman Taseer, Shahbaz Taseer, who was tortured in captivity for over four years, is nothing short of a celluloid drama.

Kubbra Sait: ‘I started writing from a place of getting healed’

A former corporate employee, TV host, model, actor, and now a writer, Kubbra Sait, who's recently published her memoir 'Open Book', talks about the power of hugs, letting Sacred Games' Kukoo live on in people's hearts and hustling to make more money to survive in expensive Mumbai.

UK palace allies push back against Prince Harry's claims

Buckingham Palace hasn’t officially commented on the book. But British newspapers and websites brimmed with quotes from unnamed “royal insiders,” rebutting Harry’s accusations.

Book Review | Matthew Perry’s ‘Friends, Lovers, and the Big Terrible Thing’ is a profoundly sad memoir

Chandler is kind of a cartoonish character who has his foot in the mouth and his heart in the right place. With his autobiography, Perry may not be seen as the smart guy with the smart one-liners any more.

Paulina Porizkova doesn’t call her book a memoir

The model spent last year working on a series of essays that became her forthcoming book, “No Filter: The Good, the Bad, and the Beautiful” out Tuesday from The Open Field, an imprint of Penguin Random House, founded by Maria Shriver.

Prince Harry's memoir, titled 'Spare' to come out January 10

Prince Harry's memoir, an object of obsessive anticipation worldwide since first announced last year, is coming out January 10.

Britney Spears confirms writing memoir, then deletes Instagram post

In the now unavailable note, Britney Spears had also mentioned Justin Timberlake, whom she famously had a high-profile relationship with.

Storyboard18 | Bookstrapping: 'Searching for peace' by Ehud Olmert

Former Prime Minister of Israel Ehud Olmert joins a long list of people who wrote books from prison. We review his memoir ‘Searching For Peace: A Memoir of Israel’. Bookstrapping Rating: Three stars

Review | 'My Life in Full' by Indra Nooyi lives up to the hype

Indra Nooyi's book 'My Life in Full' should be read by women who aspire to leadership roles, but also men who are unaware about the barriers women face.

Tales of bookshops in two cities

A memoir of bookselling in Cairo and a novel on the life of a bookseller in Algiers show the importance of bookshops and how they reflect changes in the outside world.

Why ‘Succession’ star Brian Cox is no fan of space travel

On the eve of the launch of 'Succession' Season 3 and the launch of his memoir, Brian Cox, who plays the ruthless Logan Roy, feels the space fantasies of Messrs. Branson, Bezos and Musk are farcical.

Should Tom Peters write his memoir?

The truly moving memoirs, the ones that inspire, frustrate, amuse or depress us, are few simply because they call for a very high degree of honesty and detachment.

Smells like survival spirit: Foo Fighters founder Dave Grohl remembers a condolence message that helped him

How Nirvana drummer Dave Grohl rebuilt a $300 million career after the shock of Kurt Cobain’s death.

For 64 years he lived a double life; a daughter recounts her closeted father’s life

Laura Hall's memoir is as much a personal story as it’s a historical record of how queer people, through the generations, have been persecuted or stripped of their dignity for being their authentic selves.

A ‘dating detox’ and a woman’s quest to awaken the divine feminine energy within

Natasha Scripture’s intriguing memoir 'Man Fast' takes us through her romantic trysts and spiritual quest as she travels the globe for work and self-discovery.

50th anniversary of bank nationalisation: a surreal personal memoir

Before he became a commentator on the economy and markets, our columnist was a public sector banker.

I had thought FCNR deposits to be an idiotic idea: Rajan

Outgoing Reserve Bank Governor Raghuram Rajan on Friday disclosed that idea of raising diaspora deposits, which changed the downward course of the rupee when he took over in September 2013, had come from bankers and he was very sceptical about it given the cost to the exchequer.

Unfair to put moral code of conduct on RBI chief: Subbarao

Former RBI governor Duvvuri Subbarao on Friday spoke out against the idea of having a 'moral code of conduct' for the central bank head, strongly defending the right of public intellectuals like his successor Raghuram Rajan to use the gravitas of the office for public good.

Malala seals USD 3 mn deal to publish memoir

Malala Yousafzai, the Pakistani schoolgirl shot in the head at point-blank range by Taliban for advocating girls' education, has become a millionaire by signing a deal for around USD 3 million to publish her memoir.