For People Who Devour Books

Book Reviews by subject:
20th Century & Autobiography & Memoir & USA

July 1999 Issue

Malcolm Bradbury

It Really is a Very Important Centenary

True at First Light

By Ernest Hemingway

December 1990 Issue

Miles Donald

Not Very Nice

Trump: Surviving at the Top

By Donald J Trump & Charles Leethsen

March 2005 Issue

Diana Athill

Beyond his Blindness

The Red Letters: My Father's Enchanted Period

By Ved Mehta

Dark Harbor: Building House and Home on an Enchanted Island

By Ved Mehta

Remembering Mr Shawn's New Yorker: The Invisible Art of Editing

By Ved Mehta

June 1989 Issue

Graydon Carter

A Model Middle-American

Reunion: A Memoir

By Tom Hayden

Anthony Daniels

The Road of Excess

A Million Little Pieces

By James Frey

Stephen Amidon

Still Raging

Kingdom of Fear

By Hunter S Thompson

June 2003 Issue

Frank McLynn

Film Buff Laid Bare

Are You Talking to Me? A Life Through the Movies

By John Walsh

February 2004 Issue

Sam Leith

Kidnapped for the Cows

What We Lost: A Story of My Father's Childhood

By Granta Books 229pp £12

April 2004 Issue

Christopher Bray

Christopher Bray

Hollywood Animal: A Memoir of Love and Betrayal

By Joe Eszterhas

June 2004 Issue

William Packer

Impressions of Expressionists

A Sweeper-Up After Artists: A Memoir

By Irving Sandler

August 2004 Issue

Paul Johnson

The Most Cunning Of Presidents

My Life

By Bill Clinton

June 2008 Issue

John Gray

Revolt Against Death

Swimming in a Sea of Death: A Son’s Memoir

By David Rieff

March 2014 Issue

Michael Burleigh

In His Defence

Duty: Memoirs of a Secretary at War

By Robert M Gates

October 2013 Issue

John Sutherland

In Full Throat

Autobiography of Mark Twain: Volume 2

By Benjamin Griffin & Harriet Elinor Smith (Edd)