Category: Reviews

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

Reading Relative Strangers can, at times, feel like reading someone’s diary.

Bitter, Sweet explores the devastating impact of child sexual abuse on its survivors.

Ben Austen incorporates stunning statistics and thoughtful analysis to tell the story of America’s long, sordid infatuation with incarceration.

United States of Rejection pushes your thinking about how much of American life centers on the idea of rejecting others.

Boyd’s selections showcase a writing life that is also intimately shaped by reading.

Rough House raises some troubling questions even as it artfully and diligently provides answers to many others.

Monster of a Land …. is a book about looking, really looking, at a country and its people.

These nine essays stand like identical houses on identical lots: the magic is in each interior.

Simon uses a remarkable breadth of research: history, technology, climate change, health….

This book is the culmination of [a] this lifetime of care.

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