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Reviews the book 'The Prison Papers of Bozorg Alavi: A Literary Odyssey,' by Bozorg Alavi and edited and translated by Donne Raffat.

The article reviews the audiobook "The Mercy Papers: A Memoir of Three Weeks," by Robin Romm.

The article reviews the book "The Mercy Papers" by Robin Romm.

The article reviews the book "American Paper Son: A Chinese Immigrant in the Midwest," by Wayne Hung Wong and edited with introduction by Benson Tong.

The article reviews the book "My Paper Chase: True Stories of Vanished Times," by Harold Evans.

A review is presented of the book "My Paper Chase: True Stories of Vanished Times," by Harold Evans.

MY PAPER CHASE True Stories of Vanished Times [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

Six years after publishing her acclaimed memoir of spousal loss, i.e. The Year of Magical Thinking (2005), in which she memorably wrote about the death of her husband John Gregory Dunne, Joan Didion returned to the field of (auto)thanatography. This time Didion produced a devastating account of the death of her daughter Quintana, who died at the age of thirty-nine, only twenty months after John. However, Blue Nights (2011) turned out not to be a conventional memoir of loss which would easily succumb to the laws of the genre. On the contrary, instead of exclusively paying tribute to the memory (and life) of her daughter, or trying to testify to the process of grieving, Quintana's demise invited Didion to turn her attention to her own self and address such issues as ageing and loneliness, parenthood, displacement, as well as her own impending death. Consequently, Didion wrote the most paradigmatic form of autobiography, which, as Nancy K. Miller famously stated, is an act of "writing against death twice: the other's and one's own" (Miller 1994: 12). The aim of this paper is to discuss Blue Nights as a narrative of grief and/or death. The conceptual framework of this analysis will be provided by an inquiry into the (titular) colour blue and its cultural contexts. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article reviews the book "Miracles of Life: Shanghai to Shepperton: An Autobiography," by J. G. Ballard.

M. G. Vassanji's novel The In-Between World of Vikram Lall is presented as an autobiographical narrative recorded by Vikram Lall, a fictional Kenyan Indian, whose life runs parallel with the history of his native country through the second half of the twentieth century. As the eponymous hero confesses in the opening lines of the story: "[He has] the distinction of having been numbered one of Africa's most corrupt men, a cheat of monstrous and reptilian cunning." Using the framework established by Philippe Lejeune in Le Pacte autobiographique (1975), this roguish life appears as a rogue autobiography as well since it "cheats" with the characteristics of the genre. The paper will attempt to show how the novel operates within such a framework and how the usual code is used or misused in the interest of suspense and satire. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This article reviews several memoirs including "A Madman's Manifesto," by August Strindberg, "Straight Life: The Story of Art Paper," by Art and Laurie Pepper, and "Forgotten Fatherland: The Search for Elizabeth Nietzsche," by Ben Macintyre.

Reviews the non-fiction book 'Secrets: A Memoir of Vietnam and the Pentagon Papers,' by Daniel Ellsberg.

The article reviews the book "Poyln: My Life Within Jewish Life in Poland, Sketches and Images," by Yehiel Yeshaia Trunk.