Category: Reviews

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

Stalvey’s gorgeous illustrations, playful sense of humor, and clear-eyed criticisms of purity culture …. make this book a worthwhile read.

…it has been a while since a book of essays astounded me on every level…

Winter is a beautifully meandering journey through childhood, local history, and a writer’s life.

I thought I knew a lot about racism. Then I read The Mixed Marriage Project.

..a beautiful combination of elegy and manifesto.

… a book that you can read through, like a more typical memoir, and also cook your way through.

Tracey exquisitely weaves queer beauty into a narrative that is also about the death of the ecosystems around salt lakes.

How do you review a car wreck?

More sociological study than memoir, Rehab examines the U.S. model of addiction recovery through four people.

Allen-Paisant juxtaposes his childhood in Jamaica with his current middle-class life in Leeds, UK….

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