Biography
The Best Biographies & Memoirs of September 2017
Has enough time passed—are we ready to take a good, long look at the 2016 Presidential election? If so, there…
June’s Best New Biographies and Memoirs
June’s memoirs herald the onset of summer with an impressive variety of personal stories. Some are funny, some are inspiring,…
May’s Best New Biographies and Memoirs
A new book from one of the funniest memoirists of our time leads off our list of the best bios…
April’s Best New Biographies and Memoirs
Though it sometimes feels as though the daily news gives us all the non-fiction we can take, there’s always room for…
6 Memoirs You Can’t Help Reading in the Author’s Voice
When it comes to famous people writing their memoirs, there are two basic categories: those who you know on some level…
The 6 Most Notorious Unauthorized Biographies
Nothing gets the brain buzzing like the words “unauthorized biography.” It immediately conjures up a sense of transgression, of trespass,…
The Bell Jar Gets a Movie, and 5 More Biopics About Women Writers
Sylvia Plath is one of modern literature’s most celebrated, complicated women, which is why it’s astonishing that it has taken…
10 Biographies of Awesome Dads
Father’s Day isn’t just about your dad and the lame gift you probably bought him at the last-minute (another tie? really?). It’s…
10 Must-Read Biographies of Black Americans
Black History Month is an ideal moment to read biographies of some of the most influential and important—yet often overlooked—black Americans, men…
5 Reasons We’re Excited to Read Jon Meacham’s New Book about George H.W. Bush
There is little doubt that George Herbert Walker Bush is one of the most remarkable Americans of the modern era—and…
Valuable Life Lessons from Mindy Kaling’s Why Not Me?
It has been four years since Mindy Kaling shared her insecurities with us in Is Everyone Hanging Out Without Me?,…
10 Reasons Everyone Should Read Joan Didion’s New Biography, The Last Love Song
At 80, Joan Didion has had a long life in the publishing world. And since her novels, memoirs, and essays…
Read All About Steve Jobs before You See His Life Play Out Onscreen
It’s been four years since the death of Steve Jobs, one of the most controversial and fascinating figures of the…
4 Ways The Fellowship Shows Us Middle Earth and Narnia Are Two Sides of the Same Coin
For a reader only casually aware of “fantasy” works, The Chronicles of Narnia and The Lord of the Rings might…
Inspiring Women’s Life Stories
In the spring we celebrate rebirth and rejuvenation, a changing of seasons, and hardy resilience married to fragile beauty—as do these…
Amy Poehler’s Inspirational, Hilarious Yes Please
Do you love Amy Poehler and want to be her best friend forever? Do you wish you could put her…