Confessions
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Thus began a short, tumultuous career in left-wing politics, chronicled in “Nothing Left: Confessions of a Democratic Operative,” published next week.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 22, 2026
In his 2023 memoir Confessions, Stourton revealed he had been diagnosed with prostate cancer nearly a decade earlier.
From BBC ● Jul. 20, 2026
A much-rumoured Kylie duet doesn't appear on Confessions II, but this would have been the perfect track for it; all brightness and light, with a loved-up lyric about a "movie star with deep blue eyes".
From BBC ● Jul. 2, 2026
Guy de la Bédoyère’s “The Confessions of Samuel Pepys” is effectively a supplement to the superlative complete edition made by Robert Latham and William Matthews and published in 11 volumes between 1970 and 1983.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 5, 2026
It is true that in high school I read Augustine’s Confessions, but that extraordinary autobiography did not prompt my imitation.
From "Hunger of Memory" by Richard Rodriguez
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