“I never forget the people who feed me,” Barbra Streisand writes in My Name Is Barbra, her 3-pound, 3-ounce memoir, in which, it is clear, she never forgets anything. Every lens, shot, triumph, gripe, and grudge is preserved for posterity and so, we have learned, is every snack.
Though Streisand’s 970-page tome more than covers her greatest hits — Funny Girl and Yentl, her 50 studio albums, her strained relationship with her mother, and how much she...