memoir

Gary Shteyngart: This Is a Blurber to Watch

Lhendup G Bhutia

Gary Shteyngart has brought a Russian-American sensibility to literary fiction to great comic effect. He talks about his next book and the new America

Sex And the Memoir

Madhavankutty Pillai

There was no reason for Nawazuddin Siddiqui to withdraw his book

Karan’s Karma

Tanul Thakur

Honesty makes up for confusion in this memoir

To Break an Absurd Record

Smriti Daniel

Two friends take a leap of faith in this fictionalised memoir

An Affair to Remember

Lhendup G Bhutia

An encounter with Ma Anand Sheela, Osho’s former personal secretary and author of a controversial bare-all memoir

Maa Maati Manush, and Motor Cars

Sumana Roy

Mamata Banerjee’s career has been bound to the automobile in strange ways. No wonder, then, the reader of her memoirs soon starts to play a game of car-spotting in the narrative