memoir

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.

In a blend of memoir and scholarly inquiry, Megan Sweeney challenges readers to take clothing seriously.

Amy Butler’s memoir is a story of relentless striving and continued failures. In other words, it’s a story of the church.

Five new memoirs by women who left evangelicalism

Viet Thanh Nguyen’s fractured and stirring memoir is haunted by war—and religion.

Beth Nguyen’s second memoir is a deep dive into the void of a mother’s absence and the silence surrounding it.

Keenan Norris’s sobering book explores Chicago’s role in forging the identity of the Black man in modern America.

Washed Ashore is, at its heart, about a man growing up while raising children.

Javier Zamora’s memoir chronicles the harrowing solo journey he made from El Salvador to the US at age nine.

In Alejandra Oliva’s new memoir, she describes how her body becomes an archive of migrants’ stories.

Sikh educator and activist Simran Jeet Singh says no. I’m not so sure.

Suzanne Robertson didn’t meet “life” on death row. She met a man named Cecil who loved cheesecake.

In either case, Elizabeth McCracken’s account of losing a mother is wrenching and tender. 

Taylor Brorby’s coming-of-age memoir is a work of defiance. But it is not a tragedy.

Shannon Kearns knows and is known by scripture deeply; he knows scripture better because he is trans.

The renowned journalist explores how the authoritarianism and corruption she has been fighting for 35 years are now aided and abetted by the internet.

Her elegant memoir is packed with information on the animals and landscapes she observes—and the threats to their future.