Memoir

Award-winning author and social theorist Ibram X. Kendi weaves together history, law, science, ethics, and his own…

This combination memoir and guide looks back on the author's more than thirty years experience being black and offer…

How to Grow Up is absolutely the story of Michelle Tea's life, of her exes, her working class roots and her youthful…

As a teenager, Molly Case underwent an operation that saved her life. Nearly a decade later, she finds herself in the…

We're pretty much all familiar with Allie Brosh's comics—if not because someone's emailed or texted us a link to one…

When the Taliban took control of the Swat Valley in Pakistan, one girl spoke out. Malala Yousafzai refused to be…

In this children's book, civil rights icon Ruby Bridges tells the story of how she became the first Black child to…

This book follows the life of early Italian feminist, famous anarchist and unyielding pacifist Leda Rafanelli, focusing…

Age 39 and lonely in an unfulfilling marriage, literary academic Chris Kraus channels her frustration and creative…

Autistic people are often told and shown that our success in society will be measured by how much we manage to hide our…

Without a doubt, certain bands are pivotal - essential - to the history of punk, and hardcore. Dead Kennedys. Black…

A comic about the twists and turns of a complex, lifelong friendship between two women, from childhood to adulthood,…

Equal parts self-help book and memoir, I Want to Die but I Want to Eat Tteokbokki follows Baek Sehee as she navigates…

Using his own experiences in entertainment and miscommunication, actor Alan Alda has created a guide to better…

In 2012, Tig Notaro faced a series of devastating events: hospitalization for C-diff, her mother’s death, a breakup,…

From disenchanted Catholic schoolgirl and glam maniac to instigator on the 1980s hardcore punk scene, Nancy Barile…

This memoir offers a humorous and candid look at a career spent in the heart of the entertainment industry, from a…

This is the untold story of Charles “Chuckie” O’Brien, Jimmy Hoffa’s right-hand man and suspected killer, is…

Yongey Mingyur Rinpoche was a big shot in the Tibetan master scene but at the age of 36 he decided to ditch his monk…

With In-N-Out Burger, BusinessWeek writer Stacy Perman presents a chronicle of how a family-run California hamburger…

A personal exploration of humans connection with the bicycle, as seen through an anthropologists eyes. Marc Auge, the…

A hypertext memoir, in a series of vignettes, some in the style of a choose-your-own adventure novel that traps you in…