A writer stumbles upon a tiny, motionless creature on a country road and, against all good advice, takes it home. The resulting memoir, Raising Hare, is a lovely meditation on nature and our relationship to it. And: have you ever invented a fake swear word to hide the real ones from little ears? One family’s […]
A new posthumous book from hip-hop icon Earl “DMX” Simmons is set for release on November 17, 2026, offering an intimate look into the rapper’s spiritual life and creative mind.…
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When Ontario legalized gay marriage, couples flocked to Toronto to get hitched
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In her bestselling, revelatory scientific memoir Finding The Mother Tree, UBC professor of Forest Ecology Suzanne Simard explained to the world that trees communicate and share resources through a system of symbiotic subterranean fungal networks. Read More
Explore Books in Aspen this month recommends a difficult memoir, a novel exploring relationships and a meditation on art.
I felt an urge to sit with the music as deeply as he had
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Writer/director Sophy Romvari's feature debut, BLUE HERON, already has her being added to the shortlist of great Canadian auteurs. And on that list, she'd be alongside the late, great Jean-Marc Vallée, whose 2005 film C.R.A.Z.Y. captures some of the same deeply felt, retrospective family drama that Romvari captures in her own films. After this conversation, Jordan has one quick thing about…
Fifty-one true stories about New York, from 66 people who've survived it. _Real Life Comix: Only in New York_ is a 216-page hardcover memoir anthology co-edited by Dean Haspiel and Doug Latino, now on Kickstarter from Cosmic Lion Productions.
The contributors span New Yorker cartoonists Roz Chast and Ben Katchor, MAD contributors, American Splendor veterans Gary Dumm and Bob Fingerman, Peter…
In this excerpt from "A Tree with My Name on It," Victress Hitchcock describes the tour of the ranch near the Wet Mountains that led her to cast doubt aside and "do something different."
A historic ranch inspired Victress Hitchcock's memoir, "A Tree with My Name on It."
At the annual May Day march in London, demonstrators held sunflowers as a show of solidarity. (Dan Kitwood / Getty…
A young practitioner reflects on her first Spring Mysteries Festival, sharing a deeply personal journey of devotion, connection, and transformation as she encounters the Gods through ritual, community, and sacred experience in this heartfelt first-person account.
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For Jacqueline St. Joan, the memoir "Your Verdict" was 35 years in the making, and served as a backdrop for much of her other writing as she honed her craft.
I’m just an hour from home when I pull into my friend’s front lawn and unload three bags heavy with books. “I hear someone’s getting into Norse mythology,” I say with a grin that I almost feel. “It’s your lucky day.”
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A new biography is exploring the tragic final days of Mary Kennedy, Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s second wife, before her 2012 death by suicide. In RFK Jr.: The Fall and Rise, investigative reporter Isabel Vincent uses excerpts from Kennedy’s diaries and interviews with close friends to delve into the controversial politician’s youth, the impacts of […]
It took Wiley Wei-Chiun Ho almost a decade to write her new memoir, The Astronaut Children of Dunbar Street. Read More
Derek Lowstuter crafted "Fiddler on the Roof of Africa," his account of two years volunteering in Ethiopia, as part memoir, part love letter and part insider critique.
Derek Lowstuter's account of his Peace Corps experience in "Fiddler on the Roof of Africa" describes both a transformative, and sometimes traumatic, two years in Ethiopia.
What our enduring fascination with ghosts says about us
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Beloved icon Magda Szubanski has announced the release of her second memoir, set to be published in September this year. Titled I Can’t Tell You But I Will, the memoir ...
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At age 24, Eric Zimmer was in rough shape. He was addicted to heroin, weighed maybe a hundred pounds, and was facing the prospect of a lengthy prison sentence. So he gave rehab another try and he had some success and started getting his life back together, diving into just about any book or teaching he could find that could help him get healthy and stay healthy. This led to conversations, the…
After a freak fall, I’m rethinking the balance between independence and safety
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America First was a public confession by the lonely, isolated, and fearful of being forgotten. Afraid that history would not remember them. Terrified of leaving no memorable legacy. Individuals memoryholed because they were cowardly, creepy weirdos. It meant “America Alone”—the whole time. The loneliness epidemic has gone viral across wide swaths of people in various […]
Addiction cost me thousands in medical bills and hurt my relationship with my son
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Is regime change worth the violence?
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Or, why doing the research and citing your work may still not be enough. Ask Claudine Gay. “Fake news” started as one thing (i.e. a factually incorrect piece of journalism) and morphed into something else (i.e. correct information which frames the subject negatively). Leveling the accusation that someone had spread “fake news” was a serious charge, which reflected sourcing […]
Former first lady Jill Biden announced she will publish a memoir this summer about her time in the White House, including reflections on the end of her husband Joe Biden’s presidency and his decision not to seek re-election.
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If Gavin Newsom’s new memoir’s purpose is to prove that he made himself, it ends up proving the opposite. (Matthias Balk / picture…
Fire breaks out at the Shahran oil depot in Tehran, Iran, after US and Israeli attacks on March 8, 2026. (Hassan Ghaedi / Anadolu via Getty Images)
Why has the Middle East been so consistently wracked…
Writer Jhumpa Lahiri grew up speaking Bengali and later English, then became passionately devoted to a third language, Italian. Her book In Other Words: A Memoir (Bookshop|Amazon) is a love letter to Italian and a vivid account of the challenges and joys of learning another language as an adult. Lahiri wrote the book entirely in […]