Category: Reviews

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

The memoir chronicles the author’s decades-long journey battling a life-threatening autoimmune disorder.

The memoir in essays is a heartbreaking chronicle of a teenage daughter’s death by suicide.

A deeply researched essay collection examines the complexity of loss and closure.

A hybrid of memoir, cultural criticism and theory explores themes of motherhood, misogyny, consent, and control.

The author explores her relationship with her mother while examining the mother/daughter bond in the classic horror film.

We review The Loneliness Files and then speak with author Athena Dixon in this double feature.

A memoir-in-miniature explores storytelling outside of traditional forms.

The memoir in essays examines how media and celebrities impact perceptions of same-sex desires and identity.

An essay collection marked by lyrical language, honesty, and humor, invites readers to remain open to experience.

A woman’s personal hell with a philandering husband intersects with a national scandal playing out in the media in this memoir.

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