JUST AS EVERY argument between lovers is not really about the topic but about somebody not feeling loved, so every significant story we tell about our lives is, I think, under the surface really about survival. Think of a story from ...

Yvonne Conza speaks to Susan Orlean about animalish curiosities, the writing process, and the meaning of memoirs....

Kathleen Rooney explores Warren Ellis’s “Nina Simone’s Gum.”...

The conservative columnist’s memoir chronicles his struggles with Lyme disease....

Andrea Hoag interviews Rebecca Solnit about her new book on George Orwell, “Orwell’s Roses.”...

Christopher Schaberg cracks open “The Breaks: An Essay” by Julietta Singh....

The author’s debut essay collection offers an assortment of meditative vignettes on displacement and belonging....

Jacqui Cornetta examines Jhumpa Lahiri’s journey to Italian and back again....

The guiding emotions of Sorrentino’s memoir of his father are bewilderment and hurt....

Meredith Maran interviews Maggie Nelson on her new book, “On Freedom: Four Songs of Care and Constraint.”...

The noted essayist discusses his new anthology of essays, “The Golden Age of the American Essay: 1945–1970.”...

A collection of essays on the Polish experience in World War II by Józef Czapski, translated by Alissa Valles....

Because of her failure to see beyond the world that raised her, Didion almost wasted two decades of literary production....

Wayne Catan reviews Matthew Specktor's latest book, "Always Crashing in the Same Car: On Art, Crisis, and Los Angeles, California."...

Lily Houston Smith explores “The Big Hurt” by Erika Schickel....

Adela Pineda Franco contemplates “The Restless Dead,” the recently published book by Cristina Rivera Garza....

Babi Oloko explores “Antiman: A Hybrid Memoir” by Rajiv Mohabir....