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...media tells us the female body is flawed,” she said, pointing to a passage in her sister’s memoir, “Appetites: Why Women Want,” which describes the author’s reaction to a post-pregnancy Elle Macpherson on a Shape magazine cover as akin to “goddess worship...
Tubman died in 1913, but slavery has long outlived her. In her terrifying memoir, Slave: My True Story (PublicAffairs; 350 pages), written with journalist Damien Lewis, Mende Nazer recounts how in 1993, when she was about 12 (her people keep no birth records), she was kidnapped from her village in the remote mountains of Sudan and sold as a slave to an Arab family in Khartoum. She spent the next seven years in ceaseless drudgery. Houseguests groped her freely, and her mistress beat her regularly and even burned her with a hot ladle for serving eggs fried instead of poached...
...curious about Joe Eszterhas' memoir, Hollywood Animal (Knopf; 736 pages). Really. It's perfectly natural. After all, Eszterhas is the most (or maybe the only) famous screenwriter in the business, best known for hitting commercial gold in 1983 with Flashdance and again in 1992 with Basic Instinct. He also has several notorious craters to his credit, including Jade and Showgirls. But a word of advice: given its ample girth and its very low signal-to-noise ratio, you might want to approach Hollywood Animal with this handy guide...
...addition to readings by renowned economists Joseph Stieglitz, William Easterly and Amartya Sen, Summers also assigned some of his own published work. Readings that discussed Summers’ tenure as secretary of the Treasury and chief economist of the World Bank were also on the syllabus, like a recent memoir by Robert E. Rubin ’60, Summers’ former colleague...
...were on hand to sign copies of their books, Madam Secretary: A Memoir and In an Uncertain World and Tough Choices from Wall Street to Washington, both released last fall...