Why memoirs of sickness and elusive diagnosis increasingly read like detective stories

In her journalism, Malcolm offered devastating portraits of artists, analysts, and frauds. She dreaded receiving the same treatment.

Finally, the Swedish Academy got it right.

CJ Hauser’s essay on an ill-fated love went viral. But there’s more than one way to see the story.

53 million Americans are caregivers to a family member. How can an experience so common so often remain in the shadows?

Ada Calhoun set out to complete her father’s abandoned biography of the poet. She ended up with a reflection on living with art.

Craig McNamara’s family did not talk about the Vietnam war. He spent his life asking questions about it.

“One Friday in April” is an attempt to write about suicide without the consolations of his signature style.

In her formally experimental series of autobiographies, Deborah Levy takes a rollicking, intimate journey through the challenges of motherhood and writing.

“This Country,” a new memoir from the host of “Hardball,” speaks volumes about the state of political punditry.

This portrait of the privileged scion as a crack addict helps explain his father’s odd appeal.

Writing about the experience of illness is a burgeoning genre. What kind of hope can it offer?

When Lucian Freud painted Paul, she felt reduced. When Paul paints her subjects, they are exalted.

His new book, “Inside Story,” reveals his greatest strengths as a writer—though he seems to be unaware of them himself.

New books by Mariah Carey and Lana Del Rey report from inside the trap of celebrity.

The most distinctive voice in blogging returns with a third essay collection, “Wow, No Thank You.”

With "Rust Belt Femme," Raechel Anne Jolie joins a coterie of writers using memoir to explore whiteness, class, and American hierarchy.

Recollections of My Nonexistence is big on relatable feminist insights but skips the difficult questions.

In a new memoir, Dan Peres reckons with his addiction and captures the halcyon days of a media empire.

Anna Wiener’s memoir captures the psychic burden of the tech worker.