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 ...

Astronaut autobiographies can be a very mixed bag. On the one hand, that should be surprising given the harrowing, thrilling life-and-death stories which are inherent; on the other hand, the authors ...

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 ...

I ENJOY particularly in the Club the papers in which contributors sing the praises of their hobbies; and I made up my mind long ago that, when my turn came, I would cry up Autobiography, which is ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

The quarterback who remains a free agent and who may never again take a meaningful snap during a National Football League game is not yet fading away from the public eye. Tebow has written Shaken: ...

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