On this week's episode of 'Lit Happens With Syd' we focused on "Becoming" by Michelle Obama & "Finding Me" by Viola Davis ...

In my discipline, Sociology, analyzing autobiographies, or life histories, has a rich foundation. Such narrative analysis enables us to gain insight into the phenomenological life worlds of both self ...

With a teeming field of candidates running for president, a group of Iowa Democrats are doing their homework to prepare for the 2020 caucuses. Their goal? Read all the candidates' autobiographies. If ...

When it comes to settling down with a cup of tea and a cosy read, your go-to may be a work of fiction - and we don’t blame you. The genre offers necessary escapism, fuels the imagination and can be ...

Being normal has never really been my thing. How we determine what is normal is the result of socialisation through various institutions: the family, school and college, the office, and of course via ...

Yesterday, my ninety-third year ended and year ninety-four began and I decided to start another autobiography. When I turned ...

The narrator of Rachel Cusk's new novel Outline is a novelist and divorced mother of two who has agreed to teach a summer course in creative writing in Athens. The novel itself is composed of some 10 ...

Autobiographies tend to fall into one of three categories: Fascinating, boring or completely unreadable. Authors are, consciously or not, shaping their legacies, but if that becomes their primary goal ...

Craig’s Hlist just cracked into his copy of Life, by Keith Richards. It’s the first time that the Rolling Stones guitarist and god among men has taken time to document his rock and roll journey for ...