memoir

BOOK REVIEW: NONFICTION / No one taught her this

One of the memoir’s most striking elements is Westover’s refusal to paint her family in simple black and white

NEWS REPORT / Mother, memory, and defiance: Inside Arundhati Roy’s new memoir

The memoir situates Roy’s personal story alongside her public life as an outspoken critic of state power, globalisation, and inequality.

BOOK REVIEW: NONFICTION / Transnational identity: Negotiating the choices

Review of ‘Reframing My Worth: Memoir of a Bangladeshi-Canadian Woman’ by Habiba Zaman (FriesenPress, 2024)

Elegy on Andrew Eagle

Tribute to Andrew Eagle, a gifted writer, cherished friend, and storyteller.

‘Young Sheldon’ series finale attracts nearly 9 million viewers, biggest audience in four years

With a bang-on finale after seven seasons “Young Sheldon” hit nearly 9 million viewers, labeled as the biggest episode in four years of the series’ run on CBS.

Al Pacino to release ‘astonishingly revelatory’ memoir ‘Sonny Boy’

Al Pacino, the Oscar-winning actor, is set to release his memoir "Sonny Boy" this October. Published by Penguin Random House, the book unveils the life of a man unburdened by fear and secrecy.

BOOK REVIEW: FICTION / Girlfriends, girlhood and everything else Dolly Alderton knows about love

Review of "Everything I Know About Love: A Memoir" (Penguin, 2018)

BOOK REVIEW: NONFICTION / Rehman Sobhan’s recollections of the road he took towards December 16, 1971

The title of the first of Professor Rehman Sobhan’s two-part memoir suggests that it is about his “years of fulfilment”; the subject matter of its sequel therefore would be about the “untranquil” years that followed.

Tribute / The alter ego of Agatha Christie

Absorbing these books is like viewing the world through the writer’s eyes—the pain she felt, the love she did not receive and the manner she perceived the people around her.

September 4, 2025
September 4, 2025

No one taught her this

One of the memoir’s most striking elements is Westover’s refusal to paint her family in simple black and white

August 31, 2025
August 31, 2025

Mother, memory, and defiance: Inside Arundhati Roy’s new memoir

The memoir situates Roy’s personal story alongside her public life as an outspoken critic of state power, globalisation, and inequality.

April 27, 2025
April 27, 2025

Transnational identity: Negotiating the choices

Review of ‘Reframing My Worth: Memoir of a Bangladeshi-Canadian Woman’ by Habiba Zaman (FriesenPress, 2024)

December 29, 2024
December 29, 2024

Elegy on Andrew Eagle

Tribute to Andrew Eagle, a gifted writer, cherished friend, and storyteller.

May 18, 2024
May 18, 2024

‘Young Sheldon’ series finale attracts nearly 9 million viewers, biggest audience in four years

With a bang-on finale after seven seasons “Young Sheldon” hit nearly 9 million viewers, labeled as the biggest episode in four years of the series’ run on CBS.

March 12, 2024
March 12, 2024

Al Pacino to release ‘astonishingly revelatory’ memoir ‘Sonny Boy’

Al Pacino, the Oscar-winning actor, is set to release his memoir "Sonny Boy" this October. Published by Penguin Random House, the book unveils the life of a man unburdened by fear and secrecy.

February 11, 2024
February 11, 2024

Girlfriends, girlhood and everything else Dolly Alderton knows about love

Review of "Everything I Know About Love: A Memoir" (Penguin, 2018)

February 8, 2024
February 8, 2024

Rehman Sobhan’s recollections of the road he took towards December 16, 1971

The title of the first of Professor Rehman Sobhan’s two-part memoir suggests that it is about his “years of fulfilment”; the subject matter of its sequel therefore would be about the “untranquil” years that followed.

September 20, 2023
September 20, 2023

The alter ego of Agatha Christie

Absorbing these books is like viewing the world through the writer’s eyes—the pain she felt, the love she did not receive and the manner she perceived the people around her.

September 13, 2023
September 13, 2023

When literature meets food

The author paints an engrossing picture of her experiences and memories, both influenced by food, which is true for most of the people in this world, and particularly for South Asians.