Lately, I've been thinking about stories. Not just the ones with scripts, stage lights, and blocked scenes, but also the quiet ones. The ones that were written at 1:00 am. The ones that were formed in ...

Reading Virginia Woolf in 2026 feels like an answer to a widespread cultural yearning to reclaim our fleeting attention spans.

Funny, furious and profane, “You With the Sad Eyes” finds the TV star facing childhood trauma and reflecting on the limits ...

In today's Dear Annie column, a reader urges action after a woman’s trauma is falsely used in a friend’s memoir manuscript.

Dear Annie: I felt compelled to reach out regarding “ Stolen Story ,” the woman who was repeatedly raped while incarcerated and whose friend is writing a book including those experiences as if they ...

British elites and wannabes behave badly in Elizabeth Day's sharp new novel, "One of Us." NPR's Scott Simon talks with Day about her privileged and deeply flawed characters.

In this story, Lilian recalls a field trip that her younger son, Jude, took in fourth grade, when the Pang family was living ...

For 50 years, Patricia Finn kept to the background and told other people’s stories. Now, in “The Golden Boy,” she’s finally telling one of her own.

Fresh off the back of some stellar New Year’s resolutions (some of which may or may not have already been broken), many ...

This is where memory is essential to identity formation. The self is assembled not from everything that has happened to us, but from what the brain has chosen to preserve and retrieve.