This is an edition of the Books Briefing, our editors’ weekly guide to the best in books. Sign up for it here. The goal of writing a memoir is to excavate one’s essential humanity, then share it with ...

Writing our stories can be healing, especially if we've encountered trauma. Writing your own emotional truth is important.

True narratives come in many forms, but memoirs are my favorite. They are intimate and retrospective and let us into the life of another individual. Notice how many films these days begin with "based ...

Books about writers’ dogs and cats are a literary staple. Now there’s a booming subset of memoirs about writers’ relationships with less domestic creatures. By Alexandra Alter Alexandra Alter’s ...

A recent article in The New York Times encouraged the reading of memoirs for mental health. Memoirs of famous successful people, it explained, could show those struggling with mental health how famous ...