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Here Are the Best Reviewed Memoirs and Biographies of October

Here Are the Best Reviewed Memoirs and Biographies of October

Featuring W.G. Sebald, Billy Porter, Oscar Wilde, and More

By Book Marks | October 27, 2021

Go Ask Alice as a Queer Teen">Seeking Solace in <emGo Ask Alice as a Queer Teen">

Go Ask Alice as a Queer Teen">Seeking Solace in Go Ask Alice as a Queer Teen

Nathan Smith Finds Hints of Hope in a Literary Hoax

By Nathan Smith | October 19, 2021

Here Are September’s Best Reviewed Memoirs and Biographies

Here Are September’s Best Reviewed Memoirs and Biographies

Featuring Joy Harjo, Winfred Rembert, Dawn Turner, and more

By Book Marks | September 29, 2021

Bossypants? On Class and Privilege in Female Comedians’ Memoirs">Who Gets To Be <emBossypants? On Class and Privilege in Female Comedians’ Memoirs">

Bossypants? On Class and Privilege in Female Comedians’ Memoirs">Who Gets To Be Bossypants? On Class and Privilege in Female Comedians’ Memoirs

Sarah Jaffe on Ellie Kemper, Tina Fey, and Tiffany Haddish

By Sarah Jaffe | August 27, 2021

The Painful Cost of the Writing Life

The Painful Cost of the Writing Life

James Tate Hill on the Hard Realities of Balancing the Personal and the Creative

By James Tate Hill | August 9, 2021

The DNA of Storytelling: Making the Case for Messy Family Books

The DNA of Storytelling: Making the Case for Messy Family Books

Tracey Lange on the Complicated, Raw Emotional Chaos of Familial Histories

By Tracey Lange | August 4, 2021

Best Reviewed
Books of the Week

  • Joyride: A Memoir
  • A Guardian and a Thief
  • Minor Black Figures
  • True Nature: The Pilgrimage of Peter Matthiessen
  • The Wayfinder
  • Unabridged: The Thrill of (and Threat To) the Modern Dictionary

More Dogs, More Dogs: Chloe Shaw in Conversation with Dinah Lenney

By Dinah Lenney | July 28, 2021

Translating at the Blurred Edge of Memoir and Fiction

By K. E. Semmel | July 23, 2021

Prince Harry will give an "accurate and wholly truthful" account of his life in a new memoir.

By Jessie Gaynor | July 19, 2021

Tom Robbins on Personalizing the Editorial Process and Knowing When to End a Novel

Tom Robbins on Personalizing the Editorial Process and Knowing When to End a Novel

Gary Lippman Talks to a Beloved American Author

By Gary Lippman | June 30, 2021

A Game of Cutouts: On Norah Lange’s Unconventional Narrative Experimentation

A Game of Cutouts: On Norah Lange’s Unconventional Narrative Experimentation

Notes from a Childhood and the Role of Perspective">Charlotte Whittle Considers Notes from a Childhood and the Role of Perspective

By Charlotte Whittle | May 5, 2021

Lil’ Kim is publishing a memoir.

Lil’ Kim is publishing a memoir.

By Walker Caplan | April 28, 2021

An artist is designing book covers for strangers' unwritten memoirs—and you can submit your own.

An artist is designing book covers for strangers' unwritten memoirs—and you can submit your own.

By Emily Temple | April 27, 2021

On the Long Tradition of the Imitative Performance of Blackness

On the Long Tradition of the Imitative Performance of Blackness

Ayanna Thompson Considers the History of Minstrelsy, Racial Tropes, and the White Gaze

By Ayanna Thompson | April 12, 2021

Bloody Talismans: How an American Journalist Endured an al Qaeda Prison

Bloody Talismans: How an American Journalist Endured an al Qaeda Prison

Theo Padnos on Surviving Captivity, Torture, and Terror in Syria

By Theo Padnos | February 17, 2021

"Soho Grifter" Anna Sorokin is (obviously) working on a memoir.

By Jessie Gaynor | February 16, 2021

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