In August 1929, American publisher approached Sigmund Freud to write his memoirs. There must have been a long pause as the father of psychology thought over the idea. Finally, Freud ruled out the ...

The news that emerged over the weekend that Raynor Winn’s much-loved (and recently filmed) memoir The Salt Path might not, in fact, be entirely accurate has been greeted with a mixture of shock and ...

In the end, my attempts to narrow the term "memoir" results in my understanding of the genre being more, not less, uncertain. The only strong conclusion I can come to is that when I say I have been ...

Do only narcissists write memoirs? And how much does it matter when memoirs are embroidered? These are the questions Daniel Mendelsohn explores in the January issue of The New Yorker. Mendelsohn ...

This is an edition of the Books Briefing, our editors’ weekly guide to the best in books. Sign up for it here. The goal of writing a memoir is to excavate one’s essential humanity, then share it with ...