An archive of our reviews of memoirs, essay collections, and other works of creative nonfiction.
With its built-in interrogation of what it means to belong to a family, adoption offers a rich context for memoir.
The feeling of creating a community of unknown but like-minded souls is intoxicating.
The youngest of seven children, Scoblic seems to mourn what time has erased, especially the family unit…
In her first memoir, Susan Mailer shines brightly as she presents vignettes of her own formative moments alongside valuable glimpses into the life and times of her father Norman.
The memoir’s inciting incident is the death of her estranged husband who is struck by lightning while boating.
Editor Deborah Santana compiles work from an ensemble of invigorating women.
William Dameron writes, “Conversion therapy doesn’t always occur at a facility. Often, it takes place at the dining-room table.”
Allowing her hair to go grey is only the beginning of Rice’s quest for self-acceptance and self-forgiveness.
In their dual memoir, dubbed the first of its kind by its publisher, Kilgariff and Hardstark write openly about mental illness….
Life stories, while different for everyone, sometimes share something in common.
