In his 44-year career at the Washington Post, Leonard Downie Jr. was deeply engaged in making critical decisions about what was considered newsworthy.
Finding My Father is Deborah Tannen’s account of her father’s extraordinary life and her search for the truth behind his family, his work and his marriage.
Analytical yet lyrical, Seager’s memoir examines the parallels between searching for new life in the multiverse and starting over with a new life on Earth.
Eula Biss blends research, reflection and richly rendered personal experience into a compulsively readable memoir about money, art and capitalism.
Written in Latina journalist Maria Hinojosa’s honest, passionate voice, this memoir is, quite simply, beautiful.
The Erratics is an unflinching and empathetic memoir of past trauma and new outrage, dotted with precious moments of rueful levity and fleeting beauty.
This collection is essential reading, and its intimate writing style will help readers see disabled folks as the human beings they have always been.
Mike Birbiglia describes his reluctant journey to fatherhood in a truly special audiobook interspersed with short poems by his wife, J. Hope Stein.
This courageous memoir is an excellent jumping-off point for important conversations about race and the history of the American penal system.
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.
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