A Medal Of Honor Recipient Celebrates Gratitude And Sacrifice
In Kyle Carpenter’s memoir ‘You Are Worth It,’ the youngest living recipient of the Congressional Medal of Honor offers valuable life lessons that speak beyond his years.
Study: No. 1 Topic For College Students’ Mandatory Summer Reading Is Racism
‘The themes register most strongly the common reading genre’s continuing obsession with race, as well as its infantilization of its students, its middlebrow taste, and its progressive politics,’ says the study of summer book assignments in 2018.
We Finally Have The Infertility Memoir Women Need To Read
Callie Micks’ intensely personal book, ‘The Baby Binder,’ confronts infertility head-on, addressing the heartbreak, the worry, and the tears, and asks why do we care so little about an issue that affects so many women?
It’s Time To Reject The Myth Of The ‘Broken’ Military Veteran
Given the ways veterans are routinely portrayed in media coverage and popular culture, we need to correct the common view that military service is psychologically devastating.
What’s Wrong With Trashing Your Homeschooling, Anti-Medicine Mormon Family
In her bestselling memoir, ‘Educated,’ historian Tara Westover tries to come to grips with being homeschooled by her eccentric Mormon family, but in the process raises some questions about her own flawed assumptions.
In ‘All Happy Families,’ Jeanne McCulloch Tries To Learn From A Family Full Of Bad Marriages
In Jeanne McCulloch’s new memoir, ‘All Happy Families,’ the former managing editor of The Paris Review picks apart the failed marriages in her family with recollections that are at once potent and imperfect.
Does Jim Comey Write YA Fiction Or Romance Novels In His Spare Time?
Early reports out the former FBI director’s book indicate a penchant for purple prose and navel-gazing only rivaled by his emo Twitter posts.
We’re Still Waiting For A Better Memoir About Infertility
A new book, ‘The Art of Waiting: On Fertility, Medicine, and Motherhood,’ tackles and important and often ignored topic—but needlessly hops up on a political soapbox.
Norm Macdonald’s Book Isn’t A Book, But It Is Hilarious
Norm Macdonald set out to write a memoir and ended up with something else entirely. That result is ab-convulsing proof that the underappreciated Macdonald stands heads and shoulders above his comedic peers.
Jessica Valenti Confirms Feminism Is Now Just About Whining
Nasty online comments and street catcalls are rude, yes. But is it really necessary to spend limited time and public attention obsessing over them? Jessica Valenti thinks so.
From Cosmo Girl To Catholic Woman: The Story Of One Woman’s Liberation
A provocative new memoir from a former footsoldier in the sexual revolution explains how she rejected abortion and found God.