There was a time, not that long ago, when it was rare for a young woman from the United States to move to a remote village in another nation…
REVIEW: Between Inca Walls: A Peace Corps Memoir by Evelyn Kohl La Torre
Category: Reviews
An archive of our reviews of memoirs, essay collections, and other works of creative nonfiction.
REVIEW: Wife | Daughter | Self : A memoir in essays by Beth Kephart
“Memoir is the life wanting to be transformed. It is the life we have been waiting for.”
REVIEW: Bad Tourist: Misadventures in Love and Travel by Suzanne Roberts
The essays in Bad Tourist are less about describing the superficial details of someone’s travels than they are about a more intimate set of adventures.
REVIEW: Kissing Fidel: A Memoir of Cuban American Terrorism in the United States by Magda Montiel Davis
Many Cuban exiliados — exiles — in the U.S. joke that their “BC” is “Before Castro,” the years before Fidel Castro took power.
REVIEW: Northern Light: Power, Land and the Memory of Water by Kazim Ali
Kazim Ali begins his memoir, “I’ve always had a hard time answering the question, ‘Where are you from?’”
REVIEW: Get Thee to a Bakery: Essays by Rick Bailey
Bailey, a retired writing professor, weaves multiple themes and anecdotes through each of his essays…
REVIEW: The Best of Brevity, edited by Dinty W. Moore and Zoe Bossiere
Brevity’s reputation as a leading publication in creative nonfiction is evidenced over and over again….
REVIEW: Swing: A Memoir of Doing It All by Ashleigh Renard
Attending sex clubs was far from habitual for Renard and her husband.
REVIEW: Selling the Farm by Debra Di Blasi
The memoir blends poetry and prose in a way that makes you want to mark every line to revisit and unpack later.
REVIEW: To Hell with It by Dinty W. Moore
…you descend through the circles of hell with Dinty—instead of Virgil—as your expert guide, learning about religious hypocrisy as you go.
