The most important Holocaust memoir
Amazon lists some 2,000 Holocaust memoirs, among them Elie Wiesel’s Night (1958),...
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Category: Memoir
An eye-opening account of the counterculture revolution
Unless you’re old enough to remember the Black Panther Party, the Weather Underground, and...
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Mel Brooks writes a very funny book
The most important thing I can tell you about the Mel Brooks memoir, All About Me!, is simply put....
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Barack Obama’s memoir is a literary tour de force
You might expect a political memoir to offer up a smorgasbord of self-justification and...
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An insightful Silicon Valley memoir
Memoirs and autobiographies are often about score-settling. But that’s not the case with...
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A moving death camp survivor’s memoir
In August 1977, a Ukrainian immigrant named John Demjanjuk (1920-2012) living near Cleveland, Ohio...
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Escape from North Korea: a first-person account
Few countries on Earth are more isolated than North Korea. The term “hermetically...
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A peek inside the editorial process at The New Yorker
Once upon a time, in the dim recesses of the twentieth century, I learned the rules of spelling...
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Life undercover in the CIA chasing suitcase nukes
Most of us know what little we know about the work of the CIA from novels. Of course, much of...
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Under deep cover in the CIA during the Cold War
From 1964 to 1982, former Marine fighter pilot Frank McCloy served under deep cover in the CIA in...
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One woman’s obsessive quest to learn how her grandmother died in the Holocaust
Eve Jaretzki was 16 years old when she learned she was the great-great-granddaughter of Prince...
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The Michelle Obama memoir is an extraordinary story
If you’ve ever wondered what it might be like to live in the White House, you can get a...
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Book review of “Educated” by Tara Westover: A remarkably candid memoir about growing up survivalist
If you grew up in a comfortable middle-class home, as I did, you may be shocked by Tara...
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Two dozen excellent memoirs reviewed here
Far too frequently, memoirs are nakedly self-justifying. Often so much so that even a casual...
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Reviewing the Ben Rhodes White House memoir
I rarely read political memoirs, because so often they’re one-sidedly partisan and...
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