AMichael Cunningham, an eight-year-old living in comfortable, concrete, suburban California, was forced to make art before he understood what it was, or could do: for example, a painting of souls ascending to heaven, in which heaven looked like the Griffith Park Observatory and all the dead were depicted in profile because his creator did not
For most people, knowledge of what life is like on the job for healthcare workers comes primarily from two limited vantage points: watching television shows and experiencing their own patient care. The same is true for many people who eventually become doctors and nurses, as Grace Faris reminds us in her sensitive, energetic graphic memoir,
Beloved Japanese author Haruki Murakami will publish a new memoir this autumn. Abandonment of a cat: a personal story It will be published by Knopf, and translated into English by Philippe Gabriel. This memoir expands on an essay published by Murakami the new Yorker called from 2019 “Abandonment of a cat.” This memoir will focus
wWhen Laverne Cox was eight years old and growing up in Mobile, Alabama, she saved her pocket money and bought herself a fan decorated with Japanese geishas. The fan became her favorite game, a prop used while dancing in imaginary music videos or recreating scenes from Gone with the Wind in which she presented herself
Published on July 9, 2026 06:05 am new York Times Best-selling author Earl Swift is a legend among adventure journalists. He made his mark covering crime in the cocaine-fueled Wild West of 1980s Anchorage, Alaska. While employed at a coastal Virginia newspaper in the 1990s, he wrote an in-depth series about an Appalachian Trail thru-hike,
EEvery aspect of a family’s life will seem normal to its young children; Only with hindsight can what was unusual come into relief. Zaid Ayers Dohrn’s early years were spent on the run from the FBI; His parents were members of the revolutionary Weather Underground faction, a group dedicated to overthrowing the American government. By
Gromit, the canine star of the Wallace & Gromit animation, is “breaking his silence” and writing a memoir. According to publisher Ebury, after “bottling everything for a long time”, it was time for them to “spill the beans”. Grand: The Autobiography of Gromit will reveal his “never before told” life story, including details such as