Author Memoirs

In the Nłeʔkepmxcín language, spíləx̣m are remembered stories, often shared over tea in quiet hours between Elders. Rooted within the British Columbia landscape, and with an almost tactile representation of being on the land and water, Spíləx̣m explores resilience, reconnection, and narrative memory through stories. Captivating and deeply moving, this story basket of memories tells one Indigenous woman’s journey of overcoming adversity and colonial trauma to find strength through creative works and traditional perspectives of healing, transformation, and resurgence.

Tracy K. Smith has a fairly typical upbringing in suburban California: the youngest in a family of five children raised with limitless affection and a firm belief in God by a stay-at-home mother and an engineer father. But after spending a summer in Alabama at her grandmother's home, she returns to California with a new sense of what it means for her to be Black: from her mother's memories of picking cotton as a girl in her father's field for pennies a bushel to her parents' involvement in the Civil Rights Movement.

Francesca's parents represented opposing world-views. Her mother always slid her way out of questions about the past, saying only “My life started when you were born.” Her dad, an absent bodybuilder, loved telling stories about his seemingly larger-than-life past. He said he would tell her anything she wanted to know. But more often than not, it was a total lie. When Francesca was 9, he went to prison, and her mother, the grounding center of Francesca's world, moved her half a continent away...

Hardy's work challenged sexual and religious conventions in a way that few other authors of the time dared. Though his modesty and kindness allowed some to underestimate him, or even to pity him, they did not prevent him from taking on the central themes of human experience: time, memory, loss, love, fear, grief, anger, death. This engrossing biography identifies the inner demons and the outer mores that drove Hardy and presents a complex portrait of one of the greatest figures in English literature.

What happens when your partner of twenty years suddenly believes you’re nothing but a stranger? What do you do when your history together is gone? How do you prove you’re not an imposter in your own life? When the partner of Emmy Award–winning screenwriter Abi Morgan abruptly collapsed...

Oscar Wilde's life – like his wit – was alive with paradox. He was both an early exponent and a victim of 'celebrity culture': famous for being famous, he was lauded and ridiculed in equal measure. His achievements were frequently downplayed, his successes resented. He had a genius for comedy but strove to write tragedies. Matthew Sturgis draws on a wealth of new material and fresh research, bringing alive the distinctive mood and characters of the fin de siècle in the richest and most compelling portrait of Oscar Wilde to date.

Published in 1913, My Childhood is the first in an autobiographical trilogy by the Russian writer and five-time Nobel Prize-nominee Maxim Gorky. Painfully moving in places, the book tells of the experiences of a young boy who goes to live with his grandparents following the death of his father. Gorky’s depiction of 19th-century Russia through the eyes of his younger self is remarkable. As he recalls memories of his youth, contrasting themes and emotions are revealed, from barbaric joy to dark gloom, genuine cruelty and saint-like forbearance.

El verano de Cervantes surge de toda una vida leyendo Don Quijote de la Mancha. Durante el proceso de escritura de este libro, Antonio Muñoz Molina va entreverando recuerdos de su infancia y de sus primeras lecturas con la revelación del lugar que Don Quijote ha ocupado en su vocación literaria, mostrando además su influencia en otros autores, como Melville, Balzac, Joyce, Thomas Mann o Mark Twain, que han consolidado la novela como la forma narrativa suprema siguiendo la estela de Cervantes.

Born in Boston, Stephen Bodio wandered into Magdalena, New Mexico, in the 1970s while on his way to Montana and never left. He was accompanied by Betsy Huntington, who was twenty years his senior; the couple had been inseparable from the day they met. After stumbling upon a vintage home along the highway, they settled into a country life; it was the perfect way for the two of them to make their lives together in an out-of-the-way place.

Samah Sabawi shares the story of her parents and many like them who were born as their parents were being forced to leave their homelands. Filled with love for land, history, peoples it is more than anything else a family story and a love story told with enormous humanity and feeling. How the...

Pilote de l’Aéropostale, Antoine de Saint-Exupéry livre avec Terre des hommes un témoignage profondément humain, à la frontière du récit d’aventure, de la méditation philosophique et de l’hommage à la fraternité.

مذكرات الأديب الألماني ماكس مولر بترجمة مي زيادة البليغة التي لا تخلو من صور الجمال ورشاقة اللغة، الكتاب مفعم بالعواطف والمشاعر الدقيقة التي لا تخرج سوى من عقل مولر وقلم مي.

«أحمد شوقي»؛ اسمٌ لا يحتاج إلى تعريفنا المتواضع؛ فهو قامة أدبية كبرى لسنا بصدد التعريف بها، إنما نعرض لصداقةٍ خاصة جمعت بينه وبين الأديب القدير «شكيب أرسلان».

يَعرضُ مصطفى عبد الرازق في هذه الدراسة لأحد أئمة النهضة الشعرية . في العصرين الفاطمي والأيُّوبي؛ وهو «البهاء زهير»، صاحب الحِسِّ المُرهَف، والأسلوب المصري الخالص في كتابة الشعر وانتقاء الموضوعات.

"الشاعر الطموح» هي قصة تجمع بين دفتيها مَجْمَعًا نَفِيْسًا للأمثال؛ فهي تروي لنا سيرة أبي الطيب المتنبي، الشاعر المُعذَّب في قطف ثمار الطموح الشعري والنبل الأخلاقي، وتوضح لنا الوشاية التي تعرَّض لها المتنبي من لدُن خصومه، والتي أفضت إلى القطيعة بينه وبين سيف الدولة الحمداني"

تأملات المازني البديعة في الفن والحياة، يسردها بأسلوبه الفريد!!!..

«سيأتي يومٌ إذا ذُكِرَ فيه الرافعيُّ قالَ الناس: هو الحكمةُ العاليةُ مَصوغةٌ في أجملِ قالبٍ مِنَ البيان.» هذا ما قالَه «مصطفى كامل» في أدبِ «مصطفى صادق الرافعي»؛ إلَّا أنَّه — قبلَ هذا الكتابِ — ظلَّ غريبًا عن أهلِ وطَنِه، لا يُعلَمُ عنه سِوى وجهِ الأديبِ وهَيْبتِه. حمَلَ «محمد سعيد العريان» على عاتقِه همَّ تعريفِنا ﺑ «الرافعي» كصديقٍ حَمِيم، يأخذُنا في رحلةٍ داخلَ حياتِه الخاصة، نشاهِدُه رأْيَ العينِ ونَصْحبُه في طقوسِ كِتابتِه؛ نَصحبُ العاشِقَ المَهمومَ الذي يجِدُ في شِعرِه مُتنفَّسًا لأشْجانِه، والأديبَ الذي تَمنحُك النظرةُ الثاقبةُ في دَواخلِه يَقِينًا بأنَّ أغلبَ خُصوماتِه لم تَتعدَ...

يعرض الكتاب لحياة إقبال بدءًا من نشأته الأولى وأسرته، ونرى كيف أسهمت أسفاره في نموِّه الفكريِّ واتساع ثقافته متعلِّمًا ومعلِّمًا، ومن ثمَّ انعكاسات ذلك على شعره وفلسفته. وكان مُحمَّد إقبال صاحبَ مذهبٍ فريد في الشعر والفنون، فالفن عنده هو الذي يمدُّ الإنسان بإلهامٍ لا ينقطع، ويقوِّي ذاتيَّته التي هي مقصود الحياة، وهذه الروح أسهمت في جعل كثير من قصائده أقرب إلى الفلسفة منها إلى الشعر.

Charles Dickens and Nelly Ternan met in 1857; she was 18, a hard-working actress performing in his production of The Frozen Deep, and he was 45, the most lionized writer in England. Out of their meeting came a love affair that lasted 13 years and destroyed Dickens's marriage while effacing Nelly Ternan from the public record.

New York Times journalist David Itzkoff crafts a powerful, remarkably honest memoir that no listener will ever forget. Growing up, David understood his father to be a trusted ally and confidant—a man who always had some hard-won wisdom to share. But he was also a junkie. As David grew older, he fell into the same trap, until he and his father hit the road in search of their “morning after.