

The End of Eddy
Returning to Reims
In the book world, Hillbilly Elegy has achieved that status of "commonly understood shorthand used to describe (and sell) other books." And I'm not immune to its invocation: after seeing ... (Liz)


by Édouard Louis
by Didier Eribon
In the book world, Hillbilly Elegy has achieved that status of "commonly understood shorthand used to describe (and sell) other books." And I'm not immune to its invocation: after seeing ... (Liz)

by Kao Kalia Yang
I'm not sure I've ever read a book that had a stronger, more cohesive sense of family than this one. Yang's memoir of her extended family's passage from Laos, where the Hmong, a tight-knit ethnic mino... (Tom)

by Sherman Alexie
Sherman Alexie's memoir—an unsparing, grief-torn, angry, and admiring portrait of his late mother that is equally unsparing toward himself—seems like one of the must-read books of the year, especially... (Tom)