memoir

Journalist Lauren Markham finds herself searching for language adequate for grief on a planetary scale.

Alexis Okeowo lovingly turns over their home state’s history as one might dig through the layers of a land plot.

Austin Channing Brown writes with honesty and tenderness about exhaustion, community, and the struggle to remain whole.

Angela Buchdahl writes honestly about her accomplishments, her hardest moments, and the routine difficulties of showing up in Jewish spaces with a Korean face.

Kathleen Norris traces her sister’s life with disability, honoring both the challenges of caregiving and the quiet, sustaining presence of love.

Five recently published books that tell stories of abortions from the perspectives of those who have had them

Meggan Watterson finds in the Acts of Paul and Thecla a seven-step journey for personal growth.

I grew up in evangelical purity culture. Melissa Febos’s decision to abstain from sex was quite different.

But you can remember it. Margot Singer’s essays explore how.

How an insecure stand-up comic became a moderately famous Episcopal nun

In her new memoir, Miriam Toews explores connections between suicide, silence, and writing.

Patriot is a posthumous memoir of resistance to Putin. It is also, at its core, a love story.

The Mourner’s Bestiary is part memoir, part illness narrative, and part ecological treatise.

In Knife, the novelist goes back to Chautauqua, where he was nearly killed in a 2022 attack.

Taymullah Abdur-Rahman demonstrates that friendship across religious difference can elicit personal and social transformation.

Rebecca McCarthy traces Norman Maclean’s poetic sensibilities from his University of Chicago classroom to A River Runs Through It.

In her memoir, Lore Ferguson Wilbert draws connections between her life and the forest‘s understory.

Danielle Chapman’s lustrous memoir is at its best when she holds her family’s Confederate history up to the light.

Dana Trent’s heartbreaking and hilarious book eschews the conventional American rags-to-riches arc.

Grace Loh Prasad’s memoir shows how the death of parents, for a child of immigrants, represents the vanishing of entire worlds.