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.

'The Rules Do Not Apply' buys into the myth that feminism promises each woman that she can have whatever she wants.

Marina Abramović’s memoir is her most revealing performance yet.

Blair Braverman confronts hostility and harassment in her memoir of adventure in the wilderness.

Mychal Denzel Smith's memoir reckons with racial injustice, and tells the story of his political education.

Her story is hard to share, but Sue Klebold's book about her son shows Columbine from a new perspective.

The author of 'The Kiss' returns with essays about a difficult upbringing.

A decade since James Frey's memoir was exposed, we're still addicted to fiction packaged as truth.

On Purim, the Talmud says, “one is obligated to get so drunk that he doesn’t know the difference between Haman and Mordechai.”

How "Hard Choices" predicts her presidential campaign