What is life like behind bars? Unless you’re an animal in a zoo, a corrections officer, or have endured a prison sentence, chances are you don’t know.
Review: A Grip of Time: When Prison Is Your Life by Lauren Kessler
Category: Reviews
An archive of our reviews of memoirs, essay collections, and other works of creative nonfiction.
Review: Seven at Sea by Erik Orton and Emily Orton
…freedom is often presented as the solution to stressful, overcommitted lifestyles, but it usually comes with a caveat.
Review: This Fish Is Fowl: Essays of Being by Xu Xi
Though the subject is serious, Xi finds a balance by weaving in references from Angry Birds to Malcolm in the Middle along the way.
Review: Mama, Mama, Only Mama: An Irreverent Guide to the Newly Single Parent by Lara Lillbridge
Four Ways to Relate to and Appreciate Mama, Mama, Only Mama If You Are Not a Newly Single Parent (or a Parent at all) and Concluding Remarks…
Review: The Buddha Sat Right Here: A Family Odyssey Through India and Nepal by Dena Moes
Dena Moes has such a command as a storyteller. Her voice is intimate, funny, and vivid.
Review: When You Learn the Alphabet by Kendra Allen
In these essays, Allen grapples with race and racism, family in love and in anger, gender roles, religion, war and trauma, and death and life.
Review: Deep Creek: Finding Hope in the High Country by Pam Houston
I’d only been alive about a decade the first time I looked through The Window.
Review: Things My Son Needs to Know About the World by Fredrik Backman
Backman shifts deftly into nonfiction with his unconventional essay collection, Things My Son Needs to Know About the World…
Review: Squeaky Wheels: Travels with My Daughter by Train, Plane, Metro, Tuk-Tuk and Wheelchair by Suzanne Kamata
The mundane becomes a miracle when I look at the world through travelers’ eyes.
Review: How to Be Loved by Eva Hagberg Fisher
Candor is the best quality of Eva Hagberg Fisher’s How to Be Loved….
