• Lost and found

    Divorced and depressed, Elizabeth Gilbert traveled the world in search of peace. She came back happy, healthy, and with a story to inspire us all
    By Lori Leibovich February 23, 2006

  • Making love across generations

    In an excerpt from her new memoir, Ann Marlowe ponders why she has been drawn to romances with much older -- and younger -- men.
    By Ann Marlowe January 30, 2006

  • A million bogus fabrications

    Will James Frey's fans forgive him for making up parts of his bestselling memoir?
    By Laura Miller January 10, 2006

  • Years of magical thinking

    Bestselling author Augusten Burroughs has built a fabulous career on his troubled childhood. Would it matter if he made it up?
    By Priya Jain November 11, 2005

  • Chicks with guns

    28-year-old Kayla Williams did an Army tour in Iraq, and all we got was this insufferably self-absorbed memoir.
    By Debra Dickerson October 24, 2005

  • The long goodbye

    In her extraordinary memoir, Joan Didion grieves for her family and connects with her past -- and us.
    By Andrew O'Hehir October 18, 2005

  • Recipe for success

    Julie Powell was a depressed temp whose life changed forever after she embarked on a year-long Julia Child cook-a-thon.
    By Sarah Karnasiewicz October 12, 2005

  • Oprah's book flub

    Her latest pick -- James Frey's "A Million Little Pieces" -- is bad news for her viewers and her show.
    By Hillary Frey October 11, 2005

  • Tales of a teenage slut

    In a hilarious new memoir, a "Six Feet Under" writer tackles feminism, teen sex, race relations -- and her dream of an all-female island.
    By Heather Havrilesky September 8, 2005

  • Lose yourself

    Cultural historian Rebecca Solnit talks about her new memoir, "A Field Guide to Getting Lost," and how losing things -- and ourselves -- makes us who we are.
    By Mark Sorkin August 4, 2005

  • Confessions of a dangerous mind

    Joe Loya has a successful career as a journalist and performer in San Francisco, but in his new memoir, he comes clean about his first career path -- robbing banks.
    By Sheerly Avni August 25, 2004

  • Dark victory

    Jim Knipfel has lost almost all his vision, suffered life-threatening seizures, attempted suicide and spent time in a mental hospital. He's also one of the driest, funniest memoirists working today.
    By Christopher Dreher July 27, 2004

  • I married a bin Laden

    Osama's former sister-in-law tells all: Secret Saudi lesbian trysts, a husband who ordered her to have abortions, and the magical power of the name bin Laden within the Saudi luxury class.
    By Suzy Hansen July 10, 2004

  • Still smiting Slick Willie

    The New York Times continues its decade of Clinton bashing by trashing his memoirs. And it still won't fess up on Whitewater.
    By Eric Boehlert June 22, 2004

  • A Paris tryst

    A memoir of an affair that will simmer in my soul forever.
    By Louis Slovinsky August 21, 2003

  • A memoirist defends her words

    A response to critics who object to the use of composite characters in my writing.
    By Vivian Gornick August 12, 2003

  • "Messy and slow, like eating soup with a knife"

    Lawrence of Arabia's brilliant memoir reminds us that the hard part is not defeating Iraq, but occupying it.
    By Joel Turnipseed April 15, 2003

  • "The Only Girl in the Car" by Kathy Dobie

    In this remarkable memoir, a former '70s teen "slut" looks back on the mysteries of adolescent sex and the female quest for freedom.
    By Laura Miller March 19, 2003

  • "Naked in the Promised Land" by Lillian Faderman

    A lesbian scholar remembers her youth as a pinup model, stripper and wide-eyed adventurer among the denizens of the seamy Sunset Strip.
    By Laura Miller February 26, 2003

  • The life of the Dead

    Band insider Dennis McNally talks about his new 600-page biography of the Grateful Dead, and answers questions about their long, strange trip.
    By Douglas Cruickshank August 20, 2002

  • In search of her father's girlhood

    Noelle Howey, author of "Dress Codes: Of Three Girlhoods -- My Mother's, My Father's, and Mine," discusses sexuality, angora and life with a transgender parent.
    By Amy Benfer July 3, 2002

  • In my life

    Mark Covelli had dated the hottest girl in school, but we fell in love and he will always be the one against whom I measure all others.
    By Lillian Ann Slugocki June 12, 2002

  • This is not my beautiful house

    We go back to old homes to reinhabit past selves. We don't own them anymore, but they belong to us nonetheless.
    By Carol Lynn Mithers May 14, 2002

  • Family feud

    Relatives of bestselling memoirist Jennifer Lauck say that "Blackbird," her book about her miserable childhood, is full of lies.
    By Elizabeth Manus December 12, 2001

  • Long-term sex

    In my 34-year odyssey with the same woman we've moved from naive fooling around to drugs, rock 'n' roll, porn -- and marriage.
    By Barry Sallinen September 4, 2001
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