“This Country,” a new memoir from the host of “Hardball,” speaks volumes about the state of political punditry.

This portrait of the privileged scion as a crack addict helps explain his father’s odd appeal.

Writing about the experience of illness is a burgeoning genre. What kind of hope can it offer?

When Lucian Freud painted Paul, she felt reduced. When Paul paints her subjects, they are exalted.

His new book, “Inside Story,” reveals his greatest strengths as a writer—though he seems to be unaware of them himself.

New books by Mariah Carey and Lana Del Rey report from inside the trap of celebrity.

The most distinctive voice in blogging returns with a third essay collection, “Wow, No Thank You.”

With "Rust Belt Femme," Raechel Anne Jolie joins a coterie of writers using memoir to explore whiteness, class, and American hierarchy.

Recollections of My Nonexistence is big on relatable feminist insights but skips the difficult questions.

In a new memoir, Dan Peres reckons with his addiction and captures the halcyon days of a media empire.

Anna Wiener’s memoir captures the psychic burden of the tech worker.

In his writing on disordered eating and body image, Kiese Laymon grapples with a legacy of disenfranchisement.

How the writer’s stories and her memoir fashion a self from the same, revisited outlines

Laura June’s memoir examines a set of dissonant and, ultimately, redeeming relationships.

“To Throw Away Unopened” is a memoir of family, freedom, and rebellion.

The protagonist of Akwaeke Emezi's autofiction is a font of different voices, some of whom hail from the spirit world.

James Atlas wrote two influential literary biographies. Now, he turns to memoir.

A searching personal story, ‘Hunger’ defies a culture of thinness.

The science fiction writer's newly published diaries show a man grappling with confusion, bigotry, and the weight of his own talent.

Patricia Lockwood and Macy Halford interrogate their spiritual ancestors.