Christopher McDougall concocts the idea of training his newly adopted donkey, Sherman, to run in a world championship burro race in Colorado.
Page after page of flawless, flaying, addictive prose: Carmen Maria Machado’s memoir In the Dream House is astonishingly good.
Megan Phelps-Roper writes movingly about the searing pain of separation from those she continues to love—the notorious Westboro Baptist Church.
In Think Black, Clyde W. Ford blends personal experience with technological and racial history to reveal how these things influenced one another.
Nefertiti Austin provides valuable firsthand insight into what it means to be a black single mother and to reject the constraints of societal expectations.
Award-winning poet Saeed Jones weaves a series of stinging, memorable vignettes into a powerful coming-of-age memoir.
Dan Kois, his wife and their two children did what many families secretly dream of doing: They packed up their belongings and spent a year living abroad.
NPR correspondent Aarti Namdev Shahani recounts her family’s gut-wrenching struggle to immigrate despite a broken system.
Pulitzer Prize-winner Samantha Power’s new memoir is a record of her impressive life.
In her stirring memoir, All You Can Ever Know, Nicole Chung hopes to find the Korean birth parents who gave her up for adoption.
In Erin Williams’ graphic memoir, Commute, she asks hard questions about shame, compliance and desire, both in her own life and in the larger culture.
In Augusten Burroughs’ new memoir, Toil & Trouble, he reveals his biggest secret yet: He is a witch.
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