Books like Voluntary madness by Norah Vincent

John Grisham’s first nonfiction book exposes a wrongful conviction that left a small‑town Oklahoma man on death row, revealing how faulty evidence and Justice System failures can turn a tragedy into a tragic misjudgment.

Joan Didion chronicles the sudden loss of her husband and daughter, exploring grief, memory, and the complex bonds that bind family and life. An intimate memoir that examines mourning and the ritual of remembrance.

City journalist William Lobdell recounts his escape from born‑again faith to deep doubt, chronicling how investigative reporting on religious institutions eroded his belief and sparked a dramatic public confession.

Jancee Dunn’s witty memoir follows her journey from suburban New Jersey to the frontiers of Rolling Stone, sharing backstage encounters with rock stars and Hollywood icons that reshaped her life.

A candid oral biography that captures the chaotic life of Hunter S. Thompson through the voices of friends, family, and collaborators, revealing his revolutionary journalism, personal struggles, and controversial legacy.

When it was first published in France in 1961 as Folie et Déraison: Histoire de la Folie à l'âge Classique, few had heard of a thirty-four year old philosopher by the name of Michel Foucault. By the time an abridged English edition was published in 1967 as Madness and Civilization, Michel Foucault had shaken the intellectual world. This translation is the first English edition of the complete French texts of the first and second edition, including all prefaces and appendices, some of them unavailable in the existing French edition. History of Madness begins in the Middle Ages with vivid descriptions of the exclusion and confinement of lepers. Why, Foucault asks, when the leper houses were emptied at the end of the Middle Ages, were they turned into places of confinement for the mad? Why, within the space of several months in 1656, was one out of every hundred people in Paris confined? Shifting brilliantly from Descartes and early Enlightenment thought to the founding of the Hôpital Général in Paris and the work of early psychiatrists Philippe Pinel and Samuel Tuke, Foucault focuses throughout, not only on scientific and medical analyses of madness, but also on the philosophical and cultural values attached to the mad. He also urges us to recognize the creative and liberating forces that madness represents, brilliantly drawing on examples from Goya, Nietzsche, Van Gogh and Artaud. The History of Madness is an inspiring and classic work that challenges us to understand madness, reason and power and the forces that shape them.

A biography of Joseph Pulitzer, the Jewish Hungarian immigrant who transformed American journalism and politics.

London-born journalist Alice Steinbach abandons her career to travel the world as an informal student, learning cooking, dog training, art and architecture, and discovering the joy of learning again.

Human rights reporter Mac McClelland battles post‑traumatic stress after covering Haiti’s 2010 earthquake, discovering how trauma spreads and learning to heal her own wounds.

Cat Marnell’s memoir chronicles her rise as a beauty editor at Lucky and other fashion magazines while battling prescription drug addiction, doctor shopping, and self‑destructive habits in New York’s nightlife and media world.

A candid memoir of Mark Lukach’s marriage to Giulia, detailing her repeated psychotic breaks and her eventual recovery while the couple faces the challenges of love, family, and mental illness.