Recently added articles from Biography:
Audrey Fisch. The Cambridge Companion to the Atican American Slave Narrative.(Book review)
Jun 22, 2008; ... Audrey Fisch. The Cambridge Companion to the Atican American Slave Narrative. Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 2007. 266 pp. ISBN 13 9-780-52161526-6, $24.99. This collection of essays serves the dual purpose of introducing the antebellum slave narrative and a variety of scholarship on ...
Muhammad Ali: Champion of the World.(Twelve Rounds to Glory: The Story of Muhammad Ali)(Brief article)(Children's review)(Book review)
Jun 22, 2008; ... Muhammad Ali: Champion of the World. Jonah Winter. Illus. Francois Roca. New York: Schwartz & Wade Books/Random House, 2008. Unpaged. $16.99. Twelve Rounds to Glory: The Story of Muhammad Ali. Charles R. Smith Jr. Illus. Bryan Collier. Cambridge, MA: Candlewick, 2008. 80 pp. ...
Allende, Isabel: The Sum of Our Days.(Brief article)(Book review)
Jun 22, 2008; ... Allende, Isabel The Sum Of Our Days. Isabel Allende. Trans. Margaret Sayers Peden. New York: HarperCollins, 2008. 301 pp. $21.95. The Sum of Our Days is essentially a continuation of Paula, a chronicle of fifteen busy years addressed directly to the author's deceased ...
Begg, Moazzem: Enemy Combatant A British Muslim's Journey to Guantanamo and Back.(Brief article)(Book review)
Jun 22, 2008; ... Begg, Moazzem Enemy Combatant A British Muslim's journey to Guantanamo and Back. Moazzem Begg. New York: New Press, 2007. 397 pp. $32.50. "Briton Moazzem Begg was detained in 2002 and spent three years in various U.S. Detention centres, including Guantanamo. Begg's ...
Bin Laden Family: The Bin Ladens: An Arabian Family in the American Century.(Brief article)(Book review)
Jun 22, 2008; ... Bin Laden Family The Bin Ladens: An Arabian Family in the American Century. Steve Coll. New York: Penguin, 2008. 671 pp. $35.00. "The history of the large extended family of Osama bin Laden in Saudi Arabia combines all the elements of the epic sagas of the ...
Blair, Cherie: Speaking for Myself: The Autobiography.(Brief article)(Book review)
Jun 22, 2008; ... Blair, Cherie Speaking for Myself: The Autobiography. Cherie Blair. London: Little, Brown, 2008. 421 pp. $34.00. "How does Cherie feel? During the Iraq War, it was a question to which many Britons wanted an answer. The prime minister's wife, after all, was one of ...
Bloomberg, David: My Times.(Brief article)(Book review)
Jun 22, 2008 ... Bloomberg, David My Times. David Bloomberg. Vlaeberg: Fernwood, 2007. 366 pp. R195. A man of extraordinary versatility, David Bloomberg was an acclaimed theatre director and impresario in the 1950s and 1960s, a prominent lawyer whose cases included the defence of ...
Braal, Frans and Mies: Brave Deeds: How One Family Saved Many From the Nazis.(Brief article)(Book review)
Jun 22, 2008; ... Braal, Frans and Mies Brave Deeds: How One Family Saved Many From the Nazis. Ann Alma. Toronto: Groundwood, 2008. 96 pp. $17.95, ages 9 to 12. "The story of [the Braals] work as members of the Dutch resistance during the last year of the war in Holland ... is ...
Brazaitis, Tom: Two Weeks of Life. A Memoir of Love, Death, and Politics.(Brief article)(Book review)
Jun 22, 2008; ... Brazaitis, Tom Two Weeks of Life. A Memoir of Love, Death, and Politics. Eleanor Clift. New York: Basic Books, 2008. 337 pp. $26.00. "Loosely constructed and sometimes unfocused, 'Two Weeks of Life' never resolves its contrasting narratives [that of her husband who ...
Brenner, Carl, and Marie Brenner: Apples and Oranges: My Brother and Me, Lost and Found.(Brief article)(Book review)
Jun 22, 2008; ... Brenner, Carl, and Marie Brenner Apples and Oranges: My Brother and Me, Lost and Found. Marie Brenner. New York: Sarah Crichton Books/Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 2008. 268 pp. $24.00. "In less capable hands, a memoir of such reconciliation might ...
Bruhns, Wibke: My Fathers Country: The Story of a German Family.(Brief article)(Book review)
Jun 22, 2008; ... Bruhns, Wibke My Fathers Country. The Story of a German Family. Wibke Bruhns. Trans. Shaun Whiteside. Toronto: Bond Street, 2008. 361 pp. $35.00. "Wibke Bruhns's very personal account of her family's fate across two centuries of turbulent German history has been a ...
Bryant, Colton T.: The Legend of Colton T. Bryant.(Brief article)(Book review)
Jun 22, 2008; ... Bryant, Colton T. The Legend of Colton T. Bryant. Alexander Fuller. New York: Penguin, 2008. 202 pp. $23.95. "In 'The Legend of Colton T. Bryant,' a slender volume that tells the story of a Wyoming kid who died in an oil-field accident, Fuller strings together ...
Burroughs, Augusten: A Wolf at the Table.(Brief article)(Book review)
Jun 22, 2008; ... Burroughs, Augusten A Wolf at the Table. Augusten Burroughs. New York: St. Martin's, 2008. 242 pp. $27.95. "In his third memoir, [Burroughs] spends so much time wallowing in self-righteous indignation--Me! Can you believe it? Daddy didn't love me!--that this book ...
Bush, George H.W.: The China Diary of George H.W Bush: The Making of a Global President.(Brief article)(Book review)
Jun 22, 2008; ... Bush, George H. W. The China Diary of George H. W Bush: The Making of a Global President. Ed. Jeffrey A. Engel. Princeton: Princeton UP, 2008. 544 pp. $29.95. "In 1974-75, George H. W. Bush was head of the United States Liaison Office in Beijing. In this collection ...
Carr, Emily: Emily Carr.(Brief article)(Book review)
Jun 22, 2008; ... Carr, Emily Emily Carr. Lewis DeSoto. Toronto: Penguin Canada, 2008. 185 pp. 726.00. Part of the new Extraordinary Canadians series. "Lewis DeSoto ... sketches a portrait of Emily Carr as an unknowable woman in which missing details are subsumed by sensual lessons in ...
Dunlop, Fuschia.: Shark's Fin and Sichuan Pepper: A Sweet-Sour Memoir of Eating in China.(Brief article)(Book review)
Jun 22, 2008; ... Dunlop, Fuschia Shark's Fin and Sichuan Pepper. A Sweet-Sour Memoir of Eating in China. Fuchsia Dunlop. New York: Norton, 2008. 352 pp. $27.50. "The best travel and food writing tells us as much about ourselves as it does about the exotic people and cuisines ...
Ecott, Tim: Stealing Water: A Secret Life in an African Country.(Book review)
Jun 22, 2008; ... Ecott, Tim Stealing Water: A Secret Life in an African Country. Tim Ecott. London: Sceptre, 2008. 304 pp. R185. Tim Ecott tells the unique and funny story of his life in Johannesburg, where his family lived after his father resigned from the British army in 1977 ....
Esposito, Sergio: Passion on the Vine: A Memoir of Food, Wine, and Family in the Heart of Italy.(Brief article)(Book review)
Jun 22, 2008; ... Esposito, Sergio Passion on the Vine: A Memoir of Food, Wine, and Family in the Heart of Italy. Sergio Esposito with Justine van der Leun. New York: Broadway, 2008. 282 pp. $27.95. "As much a tale of emigrating from Italy to New York as it is an account of the ...
Farley, Chris: The Chris Farley Show: A Biography in Three Acts.(Brief article)(Book review)
Jun 22, 2008; ... Farley, Chris The Chris Farley Show: A Biography in Three Acts. Tom Farley, Jr. and Tanner Colby. New York: Viking, 2008. 348 pp. $26.95. "By plumbing the memories of friends, family members and co-workers, it digs beneath the buffoonish ...
After the Party: A Personal and Political Journey inside the ANC.(Brief article)(Book review)
Jun 22, 2008; ... Feinstein, Andrew After the Party: A Personal and Political journey inside the ANC. Andrew Feinstein. Johannesburg: Jonathan Ball, 2007. 300 pp. R170. Andrew Feinstein--for seven years a bright-eyed and bushy-tailed African National Congress Member of the South ...