Word: memoirs
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 2000-2009
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Qaedah's 24 ct. [carat] Golden Boy" and claimed he'd said he wanted to rob and kill Jews back in Australia and crash an airplane into a building. Abbasi's resentful and deeply unflattering account of his Australian comrade, David Hicks, is contained in a 148-page memoir he wrote for anti-terrorism investigators while incarcerated in the U.S. military prison at Guantánamo Bay in Cuba...
...signed statement made on Oct. 20, 2004, and seen by Time, Abbasi repudiated all the claims made in the hand-written document and described the allegations against Hicks as "ludicrous in their content (yet believed by dense interrogators)." But Time has learned that Abbasi's memoir of the prisoner he repeatedly refers to as "Golden Boy" may have been used by those interrogators to build a case against the Australian terror suspect, who has been in Guantánamo Bay since 2001. Hicks' lawyers have also questioned the veracity of the document's content. Hicks' name, like most others...
...memoir, obtained by Time last week, contains detailed recollections of "David Matthew Hicks," who Abbasi says trained in Afghanistan in the same al-Qaeda camps as Abbasi and failed British shoe bomber Richard Reid. Abbasi says he first met Hicks during a fitness exercise that involved jogging around their Al Farooq training camp near Kandahar, in southern Afghanistan. He writes that Hicks was teamed in the camp with Filipino recruits from the Moro Islamic Liberation Front...
Last year set a benchmark for women cartoonists with nearly a half dozen major works published, including three in my top ten. This year looks to continue this important upswing with the appearance of Aline Kominsky Crumb's Need More Love: A Graphic Memoir (MQ Publications; 383 pages; $30). Another in the long line of interesting female artists who get overshadowed and even vilified as a result of being married to a beloved male artist (in this case, Robert Crumb), Kominsky Crumb gets the solo attention she deserves with this new book. Need More Love delivers some of the most...
...material, Need More Love reveals Kominsky Crumb as one of the pioneers of the "autobio" style of comic making. Need More Love smartly arranges this work in an order that tells her life story, alternating with photos and short texts that knit the pieces together into a full memoir. Smart, funny and seemingly completely open about her life, Kominsky Crumb has assembled the best, most colorful and even juicy personal history of a baby boomer yet seen in this medium...