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

In an excerpt from Ayelet Tsabari’s memoir, ‘The Art of Leaving,’ how a Yemeni grandmother found freedom in Israel, but failed to pass on the immigrant’s new rootedness to her daughters

In the 40 years after the Iranian Revolution, some women memoirists came to see obedience as the opposite of goodness