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Give Me Everything You Have

A writer becomes the target of a student’s destructive obsession.

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The Day My Brain Exploded

A memoir of a mind, ravaged and rebuilt.

 

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There Was a Country: A Personal History of Biafra

A record of conflict viewed through the lens of one author's life.

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The Scientists: A Family Romance

Unearthing family secrets while resisting the impulse to curry sympathy or self-mythologize.

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Joseph Anton

Salman Rushdie unfolds the story of a writer''s life plunged into nightmare by a dying cleric's verdict on his novel.

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Winter Journal

A writer's attempt to capture the life that only the body knows.

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The Receptionist

Working the front desk at The New Yorker.

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My Struggle: Book One

The first volume in the memoir of a "narrative wizard" confronts the author's contentious relationship with his father.

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When Women Were Birds: Fifty-four Variations on Voice

After her mother's death, the author and environmentalist found a silent mystery.

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The Patagonian Hare

A record of death defied and life well lived.

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The Guardians: An Elegy

Recalling a fallen friend.

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Unorthodox: The Scandalous Rejection of My Hasidic Roots

A woman renounces her strict religious upbringing.

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Kayak Morning

A meditation on loss from the author of Making Toast.

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My Long Trip Home

A veteran journalist looks back at his fraught relationship with his father.

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Blue Nights

In a searing new memoir, the author of The Year of Magical Thinking reflects on motherhood, loss, and memory.

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My Song

The "King of Calypso" recounts a life of achievements and activism.

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William Styron: A Promise Kept

An editor's memory of two literary legends, and a collaboration that left a lasting impact.

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Reading My Father

 Alexandra Styron has written an extraordinarily sensitive biography of her father, the author of Sophie's Choice and The Confessions of Nat Turner.

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My Korean Deli

An editor finds himself behind the counter in this memoir of a family retail experiment.

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Life, on the Line

The pathbreaking chef of Alinea.

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Moonwalking With Einstein

An ancient art of recollection, rediscovered by modern "memory athletes."

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Townie

From the author of House of Sand and Fog, a self-portrait of the novelist as a young tough.

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My Father's Fortune

An ingenious writer reconfigures his own past.

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Life on Sandpaper

An Israeli artist's adventures in the heyday of bohemian Manhattan.

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I Love a Broad Margin to My Life

The author of The Woman Warrior savors each "scrap of moment" in this fiery memoir.

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Bird Cloud

A natural and domestic history of an author's love affair with a rugged corner of Wyoming.

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Life

A "Don't try this at home" memoir from the man who wrote "Satisfaction" in his sleep.

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Fury

The author of Smashed returns with a second memoir, a diary-like exploration of her angers and their repression.

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The Hare with Amber Eyes

Edmund de Waal traces his Jewish family—and their collection of Japanese netsuki—through 19th- and 20th-century European history.

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On the Outskirts of Normal

A single mother's affecting memoir of adoption, small town life, and constructing moments of order amid life's chaos.

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May 22: The video game Pac-Man, featuring "the most iconic character from the golden age of arcade video games," was released on this day in 1980. Over the next decade, gamers spent over $2.5 billion in quarters…

Ethan Rutherford and Matt Burgess (Dogfight: A Love Story) on the writing of Rutherford's surreal and fiercely funny story collection The Peripatetic Coffin

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When the Devil Drives

Thespian-turned-P.I. Jasmine Sharp searches for a missing actress and veteran detective Catherine MacLeod tries to solve the case of a murdered one. Their paths intertwine amid the Scottish theater community with uproarious and gory results. 

Story of My People

Recounting the struggles and eventual dissolution of a family textile business in Prato, Italy, Story of My People is a heartbreaking memoir about the personal impact of globalization.

My Struggle, Book Two

A controversial sensation in Norway, A Man in Love is the second book of six in the series, detailing Knausgaard’s separation from his wife, his move to Stolkholm and the dogged pursuit of a mesmerizing poet.