Observer’s Guide to 2025’s Best Memoirs and Biographies, From ABBA to Ono Misunderstood artists. Legendary music icons. A forgotten Golden Age film star. These life stories deserve space in your reading pile. By Nathan Smith
Into the Mystique: Betty Friedan’s Feminist Classic at 50 “The problem lay buried, unspoken, for many years in the minds of American women. It was a strange stirring, a By Carlene Bauer
A Slick New Vanities Mines Old Jokes, Gender Politics, to Little Effect Here’s what I learned at Jack Heifner and David Kirshenbaum’s Vanities, which opened last night at the Second Stage Theatre: By Jesse Oxfeld