memoir
Roxane Gay's 'Hunger' Complicates Narratives About Being Fat
The 'Bad Feminist' author's new memoir is about being overweight, and it offers an honest, if unnuanced, attempt to answer a difficult question: How did I become this person?
Jen Agg Thinks Male Chefs Are 'Glorified as Egomaniacs'
With her new memoir “I Hear She’s a Real Bitch,” Agg gets the chance to tell her own story of success in the male-dominated restaurant industry.
I Lost Six Years of My Life to Gay Conversion Therapy
An excerpt from Peter Gajdic’s new memoir, ‘An Inheritance of Shame.’
What It's Like to Join a Revolution as a Five-Year-Old
Peter Andreas's memoir 'Rebel Mother' relates an incredible childhood of communes and coups across the US and Latin America.
Patricia Lockwood, the 'Poet Laureate of Twitter,' Is More Than the Sum of Her Dick Jokes
In her new memoir "Priestdaddy," the "Rape Joke" author discusses puberty, Slankets, environmental degradation, and what it's like when your father becomes a Father.
A Genetic Illness So Rare Only One Family Carries It
For five generations, members of writer Joselin Linder's family suffered from strange symptoms. Now, doctors have finally isolated the genetic variant that caused her father's and uncle's deaths, leaving Linder aware of her own mortality.
Lessons Learned from Investigating Your Mother's Brutal Murder
Leah Carroll's mother was strangled to death by a mob-connected drug dealer, and her dad succumbed to alcoholism. Now she's telling their story.
'The Nicest Dog,' Today's Comic by Gabrielle Bell
Falling in love with the perfect dog at the animal shelter isn't as easy as it sounds.
Mick Jagger Doesn’t Remember Writing His Own 75,000-Word Memoir
Look, the 80s were probably a blur for lots of people.
Steve Jones Was a Teenage Sex Pistol
From the abuse to the spiraling drug addiction, the rock 'n' roll, masturbation, and thievery—no topic is sacrosanct for the Sex Pistol guitarist.
The Weirdest Things Celebrities Have Thanked in Their Memoirs
"A special thanks to the Crosby Street Hotel restaurant."
What It Was Like to Be Joseph Kony's Bodyguard
An excerpt from 'When the Walking Defeats You', a book about a young man who became one the bodyguard to one of the 21st century's most notorious warlords before making his escape.