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Autobiography and memoir

August 2024

  • Liza Minnelli, pictured in Sex and the City 2 in 2010. The star’s first memoir will be released in 2026.

    Liza Minnelli announces memoir because documentaries ‘didn’t get it right’

  • The B-52s at Max's Kansas City in 1978.

    ‘The drugs were so new, they weren’t illegal yet’: the debauched rise of New York’s wildest bar

  • Zappa Family Portrait<br>LOS ANGELES - FEBRUARY 1968: Rock and roll guitariist Frank Zappa poses for a portrait in Laurel Canyon with his wife Gail Zappa and daughter Moon Unit Zappa in February 1968 in Los Angeles, California. (Photo by Michael Ochs Archives/Getty Images)

    Book of the day
    Earth to Moon by Moon Unit Zappa review – waspish, funny account of life as Frank Zappa’s daughter

  • Planeta Awards 2014<br>BARCELONA, SPAIN - OCTOBER 15: Rosa Regas attends the '63th Premio Planeta' Literature Awards at the Palau de Congressos de Catalunya on October 15, 2014 in Barcelona, Spain. (Photo by Miquel Benitez/Getty Images)

    Rosa Regàs obituary

  • Let’s Be Honest by Jess Phillips review – manifesto for a better politics speaks plainly but falls flat

  • The Outrun review – ambitious staging of Amy Liptrot’s Orkney addiction memoir

  • Darcus Howe’s son Darcus Beese and his activist mother, Barbara: ‘He was imbued with the spirit of the struggle’

  • Observer book of the week
    All in the Family by Fred Trump review – when dollars are thicker than blood

  • I was voted ‘ugliest girl’ at my high school. Would a nose job change my life?

  • Let’s Be Honest by Jess Phillips review – the case for democracy

July 2024

  • A black and white image of Marlon Brando in a cap-sleeved T-shirt.

    Book of the day
    Strange Relations: Masculinity, Sexuality and Art in Mid-Century America by Ralf Webb review – sex and the literary lions

  • James Baldwin in Istanbul, 1969.

    No Name in the Street; Going to Meet the Man by James Baldwin – review

  • TOPSHOT-ASIAD-2022-2023-HANGZHOU-OPENING<br>TOPSHOT - Syria's President Bashar al-Assad (C) and his wife Asma al-Assad (L) attend the opening ceremony of the 2022 Asian Games at the Hangzhou Olympic Sports Centre Stadium in Hangzhou in China's eastern Zhejiang province on September 23, 2023. (Photo by Philip FONG / AFP) (Photo by PHILIP FONG/AFP via Getty Images)

    All the Worst Humans: How I Made News for Dictators, Tycoons and Politicians by Phil Elwood review – a spin doctor for despots

  • MAY -2022 -Ramsgate: Mina Smallman's two daughters were never to return from a birthday celebration the night before in a north London park. Mina pictured in her home in Ramsgate. ( Photography by Graeme Robertson)

    Observer book of the week
    A Better Tomorrow by Mina Smallman review – devastation and beyond

  • Book of the day
    A Better Tomorrow: Life Lessons in Hope and Strength by Mina Smallman review

  • Iconic: My Life in Fashion in 50 Objects by Zandra Rhodes review – wigs, turbans and fly spray

  • Biologist Rosemary Grant: ‘Evolution happens much quicker than Darwin thought’

  • ‘He was a beautiful man’: one man’s long journey to justice for the killing of his brother

  • Fi: A Memoir of My Son by Alexandra Fuller review – to the edge of reason

  • Sister in Law by Harriet Wistrich review – in defence of women

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