When one of his students asks how much one can “make up” when writing an essay, writer Paul Crenshaw replies, “Nothing…”
REVIEW: This One Will Hurt You by Paul Crenshaw
Category: Reviews
An archive of our reviews of memoirs, essay collections, and other works of creative nonfiction.
REVIEW: The Enjoy Agenda: At Home and Abroad by Rick Bailey
The forty essays in this slim collection span decades and move freely through time, memory association, and geography.
REVIEW: The Dragons, The Giant, The Women by Wayétu Moore
Moore was five…when her family was forced to evacuate Monrovia, walking for three weeks, until they reached a village near the Sierra Leone border.
REVIEW: Unashamed: Musings of a Fat, Black Muslim by Leah Vernon
Everything on the cover Vernon’s memoir screams confident, proud, fearless… the image fits her so well that it would be easy to think she’d always been this way…
REVIEW: What’s Your Pronoun?: Beyond He and She by Dennis Baron
The lack of a gender-neutral third-person singular pronoun in English has been debated for centuries…
REVIEW: Man in the (Rearview) Mirror by LaRue Cook
The essays span the experience of what you’d expect from an Uber driver: the drunk passengers, teenage moviegoers, and travelers returning home from the airport…
REVIEW: Don’t Go Crazy Without Me by Deborah Lott
At some point in our growing up, we begin to untangle our identities from those of the adults around us…
REVIEW Rock On: Mining for Joy in the Deep River of Sibling Grief by Susan E. Casey
Grief books and essays often focus on the loss of a spouse, child, or parent; Susan E. Casey puts the spotlight on siblings.
REVIEW: Because Internet: Understanding the New Rules of Language by Gretchen McCullouch
…the book is written for anyone who’s interested in learning about how the internet has changed our methods of communication.
REVIEW: Faculty Brat: A Memoir of Abuse by Dominic Bucca
In Faculty Brat, Dominic Bucca recounts thirty years of life shaped by the sexual abuse that he suffered at the hands of his stepfather.
