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Autobiography and memoir

May 2025

  • Maggie Nelson.

    Pathemata by Maggie Nelson review – a writer’s attempt to describe chronic pain

  • E.A. Hanks with her mother Susan Dillingham, at Disneyland circa 1997

    The G2 interview
    A child on thin ice: EA Hanks on life with her abusive mother – and world-famous father

  • ‘Dear Loll’ … letters between Gerard and Alice Fay, sent while they were apart during the second world war.

    Homefires burning: how a cache of passionate love letters shows the second world war on two fronts

  • Kate Potter

    I always wondered what had happened to my missing brother. Could I ever forgive my father for driving him away?

  • Bookmark this
    ‘Literary scandal’, ‘joke-a-minute’, ‘captivating’: the best Australian books out in May

  • Walk with ...
    Hannah Kent: ‘I was kind of having a second adolescence’

  • Book of the day
    Red Pockets by Alice Mah review – finding hope amid the climate crisis

  • Audiobook of the week
    Question 7 by Richard Flanagan audiobook review – a bold memoir of life and near-death

April 2025

  • Joan Didion.

    Notes to John by Joan Didion review – an invasion of privacy

  • Tina Knowles in a cream blouse and trousers, and a long blue coat

    ‘Beyoncé and Solange tell me off all the time’: Tina Knowles on raising superstars, surviving cancer and growing up under segregation

  • 9. I am first in the line with no headwear, holding an AK-47 on my shoulder, Kharote village, Maidaan-Shar, 1997

    Delusions of Paradise by Maiwand Banayee review – a compelling rejection of fundamentalism

  • A barn own hovering over it's prey at night.

    Overnight: Journeys, Conversations and Stories After Dark by Dan Richards review – night owls of all feathers

  • The devastating legacy of Native boarding schools: ‘no way people can apologize it away’

  • In the Rhododendrons by Heather Christle review – back to the mother land

  • Book of the day
    Chopping Onions on My Heart by Samantha Ellis review – can you save a culture?

  • Other lives
    Johnny Green obituary

  • The Next Day by Melinda French Gates review – Melinda on life, before and after Bill

  • Who Wants Normal? The Disabled Girls’ Guide to Life by Frances Ryan review – countering the stereotypes

  • ‘I’d love Keanu to read it’: Ione Skye on bisexuality, infidelity and her wild tell-all memoir

  • In brief: Uncommon Ground; The Pretender; All That Glitters – reviews

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