With wry humor and an empathetic spirit, the memoir I Want This In Writing takes a nonlinear path to the stories of people from two paternal branches. Yoram Rubin traces his family history through generations of resilience, rebellion,... Read More

Bird-watching, meditations on wildlife, and a move to Northern Greece animate Julian Hoffman’s poetic memoir "Lifelines", about the varied meanings of shelter and survival on a changing planet. Weary of commuting to hectic London,... Read More

Irena Smith’s intricate memoir-in-vignettes traces her Soviet Jewish family’s history during a memorable California road trip. During an atypically wet California January, Smith, her seventy-seven-year-old mother, and her young adult... Read More

The road to peace and love is paved with poise and self-discovery in Juda Bennett’s coming-of-New-Age memoir "Qtopia". Bennett was expected and encouraged by his nuclear family parents to join the military upon his high school... Read More

A woman recounts the complicated history of her hair in Lou Lubie’s fascinating graphic novel "The Roots of My Hair". On Reunion Island, near Madagascar, Rose lives among people from a number of ethnic backgrounds. Still, she never... Read More

"My World Is Melting" is Line Nagell Ylvisåker’s enlightening essay collection about climate change as observed on a small Norwegian island in the fastest-warming region on the planet. Ylvisåker reports that temperatures near... Read More

The fascinating, wide-ranging autobiographical essays in writer Jay Neugeboren’s "Dickens in Brooklyn" include thoughtful perspectives on civil rights, family, literature, and mental illness. Neugeboren was raised by a strong but... Read More

Chad Anderson’s inspiring graphic memoir "Gay Mormon Dad" is about coming out and breaking away from his childhood religion. Raised in a large, devout Mormon family, Anderson grew up believing the tenets of the religion and its... Read More