In his 1988 Lost in a Book: The Psychology of Reading for Pleasure ... Conspicuously left out from the reading-as-therapy discussion are biography and autobiography, a regrettable omission ...

By Dwight Garner A new biography of Charles W ... Jennifer Harlan, a New York Times books editor, recommends three romance novels that show off those tropes at their best. An author of books ...

The book is the fruit of a six-year process — until very recently secret — to put the Holy Father’s memoirs into writing. “In the autobiography, the reader will obviously be able to get a ...

As a cardinal, Joseph Ratzinger wrote an autobiography which was published in 1997, eight years before he became Pope Benedict XVI, and both he and his predecessor, John Paul II, coauthored books ...

ROME – “I like punctuality. It’s a virtue I have learnt to appreciate,” Pope Francis writes in the fifth chapter of his autobiography, to be published on Jan 14 in 18 languages, adding ...

“Hope,” the autobiography of Pope Francis, hit the shelves of Italian bookstores Tuesday and will be on sale starting Jan. 16 in more than 100 countries. The book marks the first time a pope ...

A biographer of Pope Francis finds that a new “autobiography” of his subject is long-winded, riddled with errors and reveals little that has not been previously published. A biographer of Pope ...

Hope is a book that combines an account of Pope Francis ... says Pope Francis in new autobiography Pope Francis is introspective and self-critical in his autobiography, at least about his ...

Author Tess Livingstone (r) and the cover of her biography of Cardinal George Pell (photo: Courtesy of Carmel Communications and Ignatius Press) Edward Pentin Books January 9, 2025 Two years after ...

In this excerpt from his forthcoming autobiography, Hope, he describes his involvement in that world for the first time. The barrio was a complex, multiethnic and multicultural microcosm.

In a new book, Pope Francis said he feels “all right” despite his illnesses. “The reality is, quite simply, that I am old,” he says in “Hope: The Autobiography”, which was co-written ...