Biography & Memoir

An investigation of love in all its forms, featuring conversations with Lisa Taddeo, Esther Perel, Emily Nagoski, Kate Bowler, Alain de Botton, Stephen Grosz, Roxane Gay and othersJournalist Natasha Lunn was almost 30 when she realized that there was no...

Celebrated, iconic, and indispensable, Joan Didion’s first work of nonfiction, Slouching Towards Bethlehem, is considered a watershed moment in American writing. First published in 1968, the collection was critically praised as one of the...

"[Arrangements in Blue] reflects on a life spent as a single woman and how that affects friendships, freedom, domesticity, family, sexuality, the psyche, the self. It observes things about being alone that I have never seen or heard articulated before......

‘Last year I lost my cat Gattino. He was very young, at seven months barely an adolescent. He is probably dead but I don’t know for certain.’So begins Mary Gaitskill’s stunning book-length essay, the closest thing she has written...

NATIONAL BESTSELLER • A work of stunning frankness about losing a daughter, from the bestselling, award-winning author of The Year of Magical Thinking and Let Me Tell You What I MeanRichly textured with memories from her own childhood and married life...

This gutting memoir is a love letter to Joan's late husband, a prayer for her daughter, and the story of a winding search for peace after tremendous loss.NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • NATIONAL BOOK AWARD WINNER • From one of America’s...

“[Beauvoir’s] graciously written memoirs carry distinct appeal in recording the emotional and intellectual birth pangs of a fascinating woman.” —Time   A superb autobiography by one of the great literary figures of the twentieth century, Simone de...

In the magnificent feast of Clarice Lispector’s books, her crônicas—short, intensely vivid newspaper pieces—are the delicious canapés. The things I’ve learned from taxi drivers would be enough to fill a book. They...

A stunningly evocative love letter both to the hip clientele of late 60s New York and to Smith’s lifelong friend, the controversial artist Robert Mapplethorpe. Beautifully written, tender and atmospheric, Just Kids has become something of a modern...

The bestselling exploration of the dimensions of love, marriage, mourning, and kinship from two-time Booker Prize finalist Deborah Levy.A New York Times Notable Book.A New York Public Library Best Nonfiction Book of 2018.What does it cost a woman to...

'It was the discovery of the essays celebrating his childhood and youth that altered my perception of Camus, from a thinker to a writer whose intellectual lucidity was a product of the wealth - the sensual immediacy and clarity - that had been heaped on...

In prose that shimmers, Hua Hsu gives tender elegy to a pivotal friend abruptly lost, reminding us of the impacts of unlikely connections and the persistent ripple of memory. Crisp and spellbinding, Stay True is a coming of age memoir that...

'Utterly, agonisingly compulsive ... a masterpiece' -- Liz Jensen, Guardian.Following one woman's journey from a troubled girlhood in working-class Copenhagen through her struggle to live on her own terms, The Copenhagen Trilogy is a...

The brilliant graphic memoir of growing up in Iran during and after the Islamic revolution. Marjane Satrapi lived through the Iranian Revolution as a little girl. This is her classic memoir-in-comic-strips, the story of a child entangled in the history...

Franz Kafka's letters to his one-time muse, Milena Jesenska - an intimate window into the desires and hopes of the twentieth-century's most prophetic and important writerKafka first made the acquaintance of Milena Jesenska in 1920 when she was...

WINNER OF THE 2022 NOBEL PRIZE IN LITERATURE.**Serialized in The New Yorker**An account of Annie Ernaux’s love affair with journalist Marc Marie while she was undergoing treatment for cancer, and their combined project to document images and...

The shocking true story of a young woman sent to a psychiatric hospital without warning. It's often hilarious, always incisive, and full of deep explorations of what sanity really means. A narrative nonfiction that you simply must read.30th ANNIVERSARY...

Finalist for the 2024 Kirkus Prize for Nonfiction.Finalist for the 2024 Wainwright Prize for Nature Writing.A #1 Sunday Times (UK) Bestseller • A New York Times Book Review Editors' Choice • A New...

Dolly Alderton hits home with her brilliant coming-of-age story. Essential reading for anyone who’s ever fallen in (and out) of love. A spot-on, wildly funny and sometimes heart-breaking book about growing up, growing older and navigating all kinds...

Quirky, heartwarming and witty, Hanada's exquisitely written memoir of looking for love and connection in modern Tokyo is an irresistible treat for all bibliophiles. This book is a love story to books. A love story to climbing all the way down a...