Janet Malcolm once emailed to tell me she found an introduction I had written for my book on writers’ deaths, which included my own thoughts on a childhood illness, to be “surprising” but “powerful.” ...

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I first read Lucy Grealy’s memoir, “Autobiography of a Face,” in 2014, when I was in my mid-20s and had just emerged from nearly four years of treatment for leukemia. I had imagined life after cancer ...

EXCLUSIVE: Matthew Perry is to lift the lid on his life and career in an autobiography. Flatiron Books, a division of Macmillan, won the worldwide rights in a major overnight pre-empt – essentially ...

Sometimes the best moments in sports aren't just played out on the field, they're also live forever on pages. For all the readers out there, 2025 happens to have been an incredible year for sports ...