Jaros not only tells us about developing self-trust — she invites us to lace up our own boots and cultivate it within our own journey
REVIEW: In My Boots: A Memoir of Five Million Steps Along the Appalachian Trail by Amanda K. Jaros
Category: Reviews
An archive of our reviews of memoirs, essay collections, and other works of creative nonfiction.
REVIEW: Mothers and Other Fictional Characters: A Memoir in Essays by Nicole Graev Lipson
Nicole Graev Lipson brilliantly mines stories from her own life to reveal the truth, pain, and beauty that mark the experiences all women share…
REVIEW: Happy to Help: Adventures of a People Pleaser by Amy Wilson
When Amy Wilson was in eighth grade, she decided to stop raising her hand, even when she knew the answers.
REVIEW: Alligator Tears: A Memoir in Essays by Edgar Gomez
In seven sentences, just seventy-six words, I am haunted by my 1987 coming out moment.
REVIEW: The Full Catastrophe: All I Ever Wanted… Everything I Feared by Casey Mulligan Walsh
Casey Mulligan Walsh makes a stunning authorial debut with her new memoir The Full Catastrophe: All I Ever Wanted…Everything I Feared.
REVIEW: Exit the Body by Heather Bartel
In Exit the Body, Heather Bartel presents nine provocative, mind-bending, genre-fluid essays on the nature of identity, personhood, womanhood, and more.
REVIEW: All the Beauty in the World by Patrick Bringley
In his exquisite debut memoir Patrick Bringley walks us through—quite literally—the decade he spent as a guard at the Metropolitan Museum of Art.
REVIEW: The Braille Encyclopedia: Brief Essays on Altered Sight by Naomi Cohn
Review by Sara PisakThe Braille Encyclopedia: Brief Essays on Altered Sight by Naomi Cohn functions as an encyclopedic guided tour through Cohn’s diagnosis and worsening eyesight. Accompanying her on this tour is an unlikely companion, the inventor of braille, Louis Braille. Together Cohn and Braille offer the reader a unique understanding of their lived experiences.…
REVIEW: The Loves of My Life: A Sex Memoir by Edmund White
I wasn’t expecting to laugh and learn my way through something subtitled A Sex Memoir.
REVIEW: Loveland: A Memoir of Romance and Fiction by Susan Ostrov
In Loveland, Susan Ostrov’s lived experience converge to challenge traditional boundaries between the academic and the anecdotal.
