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During a Vietnam War protest, Norman Mailer blustered and banged a generation's experience through his prodigious ego.

A close look at Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas reveals a deeply conservative and increasingly bitter man.

Two new books explore the possibilities and ethical complications of assisted reproductive technology.

Bettina Aptheker's recent memoir has incited fierce debate over her father s legacy.

The original poster child for the religious right describes how he came to terms with religion and an odd upbringing.

His autobiography sheds light on what motivates hard-right political leaders to apply brutal economic shock therapy.

In a posthumously published memoir, Ryszard Kapuscinski looks back on his life as a pathbreaking literary journalist who covered the Third World during the cold war.

Atul Gawande offers up a banal self-help manual for aspiring MDs, while Pauline Chen prescribes a dose of compassion.

In his memoir, Régis Debray describes the evolution of his politics from his early days as a revolutionary to his later work advising the nominally socialist François Mitterrand.

Child soldiering has become a defining feature of modern warfare. And the United States has been all too complicit in the trend.