Browsing: memoir

In Just Kids, her gorgeous and heartbreaking 2010 memoir, Patti Smith fulfilled a promise to her indispensable friend and artistic coconspirator Robert Mapplethorpe that she would…

People are upset when a memoir isn’t 100% true (The Guardian view on The Salt Path scandal: memoirists have a duty to tell the truth, 11…

Raynor Winn, the author of The Salt Path, has described enduring some of the “hardest days” of her life as she defended her memoir against allegations…

It has been one of the films of the summer so far – the tale of Raynor Winn and her husband Moth, who embark on the…

Hala Alyan in Brooklyn, New York, on 28 May 2025. ‘You exist in both identities like a ghost,’ she says of being Palestinian American. Photograph: Kholood…

In 2017, Jacinda Ardern, the former Prime Minister of New Zealand, was sitting in her bathroom anxiously anticipating the news of two potentially life-changing events. One,…