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Compared with Andrew Levy, I'm a rank amateur. Levy is the author of A Brain Wider Than the Sky (Simon & Schuster; 289 pages), which is a memoir of his experiences as a headache sufferer - he gets debilitating migraines 10 times a year - combined with a cultural history of migraines in general. On the face of it, this is a wobbly premise, since there is almost nothing more boring than listening to somebody describe his headaches. (See first paragraph.) But it's a challenge to which Levy rises. He collects headaches like rare butterflies, and he has a rare, possibly...
...failed is a mystery to me.' ROBERT H. PHELPS, a former editor at the New York Times, who revealed in his memoir that the newspaper had ignored an early tip on the Watergate scandal...
Author Joan Didion will be the recipient of an honorary doctor of letters degree. In 2005, she received a National Book Award for her novel The Year of Magical Thinking, a memoir she wrote following her husband’s sudden death...
...China's stimulus package may provide little more than a short-lived growth blip if officials are unable to control the perennial bugbear of Chinese economic development: pervasive corruption in local and provincial governments, which make their own way far from the brilliant technocrats in Beijing. (Read "The Secret Memoir of a Fallen Chinese Leader...
...memoir recounting the days he spent as Kim Jong Il's personal chef in Pyongyang, Kenji Fujimoto calls Kim Jong Un, the third son of the North Korea dictator, the "Prince." "When Jong Un shook hands with me," Fujimoto writes, "he stared at me with a vicious look. I cannot forget the look in the Prince's eyes: it's as if he was thinking, 'This guy is a despicable Japanese.'" Jong Un, Fujimoto also writes, is "a chip off the old block, a spitting image of his father in terms of face, body shape and personality...