Leslie Jamison’s Kaleidoscope of Loneliness

Elaine Margolin / Truthdig Jan 5, 2020 Essays feature a whale with online followers, families who believe a child led a prior life and Civil War photographers’ staging of corpses. Dig deeper ( 7 Min. Read )

Edward Snowden Sets the Record Straight

Roslyn Fuller / Los Angeles Review of Books Dec 29, 2019 In “Permanent Record,” the NSA whistleblower tries to convince skeptics of his motives and educate readers about mass surveillance. Dig deeper ( 10 Min. Read )

Planned Parenthood Chief: Ivanka and Jared Offered ‘Bribe’ to Stop Abortions

Emily Wells / Truthdig Apr 4, 2018 Cecile Richards says she "shut down the conversation," which took place in January 2017, because there was no way the proposal being made to her would work. Dig deeper ( 2 Min. Read )

Michelle Obama to Release Memoir in November

HILLEL ITALIE / The Associated Press Feb 25, 2018 The former first lady tweeted Sunday that the book, to come out a week after the 2018 midterm elections, is called "Becoming." Dig deeper ( 2 Min. Read )

Fearlessly Exploring the Emotional Fallout From Sexual Trauma

Elaine Margolin / Truthdig Nov 10, 2017 A newly translated memoir, "Incest," uses chaotic and explosive prose to show author Christine Angot’s journey through trauma. Dig deeper ( 7 Min. Read )

I Am Brian Wilson

Tim Riley / Truthdig Mar 17, 2017 The musician we meet in this book looks back on his mid-’70s Beach Boys caricature with sympathy and dread. As his gentle voice emerges from the pages, a more definitive picture takes shape. Dig deeper ( 4 Min. Read )

Part 2: Behind Bars, Day to Day

By Serena P. Green Feb 10, 2017 Because she lacks all power, the author focuses on simple things: meals, showers, access to shampoo. This is the second of a three-part story in Truthdig’s “Violence Against Women” series. Dig deeper ( 8 Min. Read )

‘Where Memory Leads’

By Elaine Margolin Dec 15, 2016 Holocaust scholar Saul Friedlander's new memoir is riveting in its fierce intelligence and candor. Resilience shouts out to us from each page. Dig deeper ( 7 Min. Read )

In Other Words

By Howard Norman Feb 26, 2016 Novelist Jhumpa Lahiri's evocative memoir is written in her third language, Italian. "I'm in another dimension," she writes of working in Italian, "where I have no references, no armor. Where I've never felt so stupid." Dig deeper ( 4 Min. Read )

Barbarian Days

By Gabriel Thompson Jul 24, 2015 William Finnegan's memoir about surfing has more depth than many about other addictions. Nothing, not even his cliched dream of chasing waves, is as uncomplicated as it appears. Dig deeper ( 6 Min. Read )

A Message in a Bottle From My Mother: Requiem for the Home Front

By Tom Engelhardt, TomDispatch Jul 22, 2015 In these decades, when we’ve gone from an American version of people’s war and national mobilization to peopleless wars and a demobilized populace, war has remained a constant, but we have not. Given that, I want to offer one small cheer, however belatedly, for my mother the caricaturist. Dig deeper ( 14 Min. Read )

On the Move

By Annie Murphy Paul May 22, 2015 Since the 1985 publication of “The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat," neurologist Oliver Sacks has been enlightening readers with sharply observed, generously humane medical case studies. In his latest book, "On the Move: A Life," Sacks presents an extended study of the patient he knows best: himself. Dig deeper ( 6 Min. Read )