This electrifying narrative provides an up-close look at Jobs while exploring timeless questions about family, loyalty and love.
Tony Wagner examines the ways in which the structures of American education fail to respect the individuality of each student in his memoir, Learning by Heart.
Kid Quixotes weaves together the narrative of Stephen Haff’s teaching career and the stories of his students from the Latinx immigrant community.
Inferno is a memoir of Catherine Cho’s harrowing journey through postpartum psychosis, beginning one morning when time and self suddenly unspooled.
In Horse Crazy, Sarah Maslin Nir turns the investigative lens on herself, exploring why she and so many others share this equine obsession.
A hapless road trip with eccentric, iconic Argentine writer Jorge Luis Borges anchors Jay Parini’s novelistic coming-of-age memoir.
Two Trees Make a Forest charts Jessica J. Lee’s ardent quest to discover and reconcile her family’s past with her need to claim an ancestral home in Taiwan.
Sara Schaefer’s writing is radiant, whether she’s describing the wonder of the Grand Canyon or her early years as a stand-up comedian in New York City.
Memorial Drive is the harrowing, poetic story of Natasha Trethewey’s deepening love for her mother, which has survived long after her mother’s death.
Is Rape a Crime? blends Michelle Bowdler’s own narrative with detailed research about how law enforcement—from crime labs to individual cops—fail rape victims.
After losing a marriage, a job, a house and a circle of friends, an anonymous writer became a vessel for the voice of beloved online figure Duchess Goldblatt.
Bill Buford’s true passion for food makes his descriptions a pleasure to hear, even when it’s a dish I wouldn’t touch with a 10-foot fork.
Sitting with Gail Caldwell’s memoir Bright Precious Thing feels like an invitation into her own heart and soul.
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