Category: Reviews

An archive of our reviews of memoirs, essay collections, and other works of creative nonfiction.

On its surface, this is a memoir about the time Caldwell spent “trying” for a baby, but as with all the best memoirs, it’s so much more than that.

There are books that understand something fundamental about place, not just as backdrop…but as a living force that shapes us.

I cracked open Just Another Meat-Eating Dirtbag without preconceived notions of what a graphic memoir could or should be

..Tre writes about… about the ways his families and communities have created joy despite everything in America that works to tamp that joy down.”

A beautiful exploration of intersections that exist between the things we understand and the things we never will.

When Bridget discovers rafting, it stirs something deep within her.

Famished offers a fresh perspective for unpacking the ways that society influences and sublimates the appetites of women.

Cipher is a book like no other — part history, part-mystery, part-memoir….

Nightbird addresses themes of unresolved childhood trauma, domestic violence, religious indoctrination, and mental illness,

Through the cats and her own story, Gustafson illustrates how the system fails animals and us.

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