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...student in Saigon when the war ended tells movingly of surviving a Marxist re-education camp and escaping Vietnam by boat. His adventures in the U.S. include earning a bachelor's degree at Bennington College and learning the rhythms of English well enough to write this haunting, oddly pastoral memoir. Even today, concerned that he may never see his parents in Vietnam, he writes, "I sat on the hill, surrounded by trees in their spring blossom, looking over the pond at Bennington College, listening ((to a lecture)) on Tolstoy's great novel War and Peace. I felt like...
...longest new essay, "No Law in the Arena," is a panorama of hot-button topics: rape, harassment, pornography, abortion. What makes Paglia infuriating and invaluable is her willingness to find, in these victimological issues, shades of male anxiety and female responsibility. There are also quieter pieces, notably a loving memoir of four homosexual friends who helped shape her sensibility. But it's silly to ask this brainy pipshriek to calm down; shouting is her form of conversation...
Wardell's father, William, who was at the ceremony, said that in Steven's hometown of Ann Arbor, Mich., the book is on the bestseller list, tied at No. 9 with Barbara Bush's latest book, Barbara Bush: A Memoir...
...Memoirs written by a relative or a friend of a celebrity are inherently flawed in that they are written on the pretense that the author's life history is as compelling as the celebrity's. This is usually never the case. An inevitable tension arises in which the author struggles to assert his own identity while at the same time acknowledging the celebrity relation that made his story noteworthy in the first place. Because a memoir writer is more than a celebrity biographer, she has the onerous task of assigning relevance to her own life. If the author...
Chairman Mao Tsetung, the architect and chief engineer of Communist China, had a randy, raunchy side, according to his doctor and confidant. Physician Li Zhisui writes in his 663-page memoir, "The Private Life of Chairman Mao," that the iconic leader was a decadent, selfish cutthroat who enjoyed nightly massages, orgiastic romps and extramarital sex with young girls. Among the other grisly details: the doc says Mao didn't care about spreading a sexually-transmitted disease, stayed in his bathrobe weeks at a time and drank green tea in lieu of brushing his teeth...