Isaac Butler and Dan Kois’s oral history captures all the twists and turns of fate that went into the two-part epic Angels in America‘s creation… read more

Abandon Me is a fierce exploration of love and obsession… read more

Hide is an exceedingly tough and emotionally wrenching book. Griffin’s writing is, however, simply beautiful… read more

One of the memoir’s greatest strengths is the sense it conveys of Bacon as a social animal, gregarious and full of contradictions… read more

The Repercussions does not try to explain war, nor does it try to call us to action. It is simply a chronicle of the ways human beings mess each other up and what it takes, on an individual level, to keep on living… read more

For readers who yearn more for good dish than spiritual pondering, it does not hurt that Plante’s “connections” are of the very best kind: Germaine Greer, Phillip Roth, David Hockney, to name a few. … read more

Sandip Roy’s Don’t Let Him Know is a multi-generational story venturing deep into the hidden pasts of a single family over the course of decades…. read more

With Dinu Grigorescu, Paul Bailey presents contemporary readers with a challenging narrator. Ailing while on the cusp of 60 in the spring of 1967 and certain that he has little time remaining, Dinu’s setting down a “memoir of a life half-lived.” Though mentioning in passing the lonely decades he endured in London after the mid-1930s,… read more

Margaret Thatcher was no friend to Scotland – hundreds gathered in Glasgow’s George Square to celebrate her death in 2013 – nor was she one to the burgeoning gay community – she passed Section 28 which outlawed the promotion of the “acceptability of homosexuality” in 1988 – yet for the young Damian Barr, her indefatigable… read more

“[…] this book is more than just a love letter to a city (the title comes from a declaration White once made to an American who complained about Paris: ‘I like it. To me it seems so calm after New York. As if I’d already died and gone to heaven. It’s like living inside a pearl.’), but to the people who made up his experiences there.”… read more