The casual omission of Black people aboard the ill-fated ocean liner allows this book to offer a new perspective on historical Black figures…
REVIEW: Black Man on the Titanic by Serge Bilé
Category: Reviews
An archive of our reviews of memoirs, essay collections, and other works of creative nonfiction.
REVIEW: From the Lake House by Kristen Rademacher
At first, Kristen is charmed by Jason’s stories of deer hunting and NASCAR, which she contrasts with her “preppy New England” schooling and love of Broadway
REVIEW: Mercy: A Memoir of Medical Trauma and True Crime Obsession
In stark prose, Trahan cuts to the core of her memories. “My mother had taught me by example to dread medicine,” she writes.
REVIEW: This One Will Hurt You by Paul Crenshaw
When one of his students asks how much one can “make up” when writing an essay, writer Paul Crenshaw replies, “Nothing…”
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…
