Australian poetry classics: Francis Webb, the 20th century’s ‘most unjustly neglected poet’, is our best kept literary secret In this series, we explore influential Australian poems. The Conversation · Aug 20
Girl, Interrupted interrogates how women are 'mad' when they refuse to conform – 30 years on, this memoir is still important Thirty years ago, American writer Susanna Kaysen published her memoir Girl, Interrupted. It tells the story of her two years inside McLean Hospital in Boston as a psychiatric patient. The Conversation · Mar 20, 2023
Jonathan Raban obituary Writer of travel books, novels and essays, whose Soft City was an early example of psychogeography The Guardian - UK · Jan 18, 2023
Jonathan Raban, travel writer and novelist, dies aged 80 The British author, who lived in the US, blended memoir and travelogue in books that were often inspired by the sea The Guardian - AU · Jan 18, 2023
‘There are truths that have to be told and they may upset people’: Tony Kushner on Spielberg, Ye and ‘the orange-covered mud devil’ The Angels in America writer talks about antisemitism, homophobia and working on The Fabelmans, Steven Spielberg’s loosely autobiographical film about a teenager obsessed with cinema The Guardian - UK · Dec 16, 2022
‘A more anarchic city’: Darryl Pinckney on New York literary life in the 1970s The novelist’s memoir evokes the ambition and thrill of writing alongside Gore Vidal, Susan Sontag, James Baldwin and his mentor Elizabeth Hardwick The Guardian - UK · Nov 6, 2022
Robert Lowell: Memoirs, edited by Steven Gould Axelrod and Grzegorz Kosc – review A collection of the poet’s stately prose from the 1950s reveals his shift into confessional writing and the bipolar disorder that led to hospitalisation and regrets The Guardian - UK · Aug 1, 2022
Memoirs by Robert Lowell review – a poet’s life A vivid account of childhood, depression and the postwar American literary scene, from the author of Life Studies The Guardian - UK · Jul 27, 2022