In April 2015, Miller published "The Story: A Reporter's Journey", a memoir that focused largely on her reporting during the second Gulf War. Her former colleague Neil Lewis characterized most of the reviews as "unreservedly critical". Writing in "The New York Times", former "Los Angeles Times" reporter Terry McDermott wrote that although "this is not a score-settling book", he found it "sad and flawed". Ιn "The Washington Post", Erik Wemple wrote that the book's "dynamic" of "Judy Miller against the world" lends her book an aspect that is "both depressing and desperate". A review in "The Columbia Journalism Review" called the book "less a memoir than an apologia and an assault". In "The Daily Beast", Lloyd Grove characterized Miller's work as "self-pitying". Criticizing Miller's failure to fully take responsibility for the flaws in her reporting, Matt Taibbi wrote in "Rolling Stone": "Most of "The Story" is a tale of dog after scheming dog eating Miller's homework. ... Mostly, she just had a lot of rotten luck. Or at least, that's how it reads. It's a sweeping, epic non-apology. Every bad thing Miller has ever been accused of turns out to be wrong or taken out of context, according to her."