A new anti-memoir memoir revisits a critical moment in the history of air piracy while plumbing the false consciousness of American Jews

The bestselling cookbook author hosts a dinner party for someone she considers an ‘enemy of food’

Do we ever outgrow our desire for a parent’s understanding and approval?

Instead of the tragedy I had anticipated, the pain I felt during my high-risk pregnancy was a small victory

My grandmother’s positive outlook—despite all she’d been through—helped me endure years of bullying

As an immigrant from the Soviet Union, I had trouble adjusting to life as an American Jew

Lesléa Newman paints a poetic portrait of her father—the man he was, and the man he became

In his new memoir, ‘Undaunted,’ former CIA Director John Brennan offers a self-portrait of a blustering desk jockey with severe anger-management issues

How the late memoirist and reporter Lucette Lagnado found echoes of her own Egyptian exile at a royalist commemoration of the beheading of Louis XVI, 228 years ago today

In a new memoir, discovering generations of forgiveness

The half-Jewish English writer’s new drug memoir, ‘Will,’ dives from Hampstead Garden Suburb into an underworld

Dani Ritholtz’s new memoir chronicles the highs and lows of his father Bruce’s life after a cancer diagnosis

In an excerpt from a new memoir, ‘One Hundred Autobiographies,’ one man’s advice about facing the draft during the Vietnam War

Making aliyah in the wake of the Kennedy assassination

A family of Soviet Jews prepares to leave for America in ‘Savage Feast,’ a new memoir with recipes