South of Forgiveness: A True Story of Rape and Responsibility is a remarkable experience. A catharsis. A symbiosis of grief and joy
Review: South of Forgiveness: A True Story of Rape and Responsibility by Thordis Elva and Tom Stranger
Category: Reviews
An archive of our reviews of memoirs, essay collections, and other works of creative nonfiction.
Review: Golden State 2017: The Best New Writing from California by Lisa Locascio
In 28 separate tales, Locascio’s selections cover a spectrum of races and nationalities, heroes and villains, sexes and orientations, and family relations.
Review: Japanese Girl at the Siege of Changchun: How I Survived China’s Wartime Atrocity by Homare Endo
Not a day goes by that China is not mentioned on American news broadcasts or headlines. Most of these stories extol China’s economic growth, scientific innovations, or forward-looking president.
Review: The Business of Broadway: An Insider’s Guide to Working, Producing, and Investing in the World’s Greatest Theatre Community by Mitch Weiss and Perri Gaffney
Behind every great Broadway star is roughly 40 million other people making it happen: Wardrobe, makeup, sound, lighting design…
Review: Why I am Not a Feminist: A Feminist Manifesto by Jessica Crispin
Jessa Cripsin’s manifesto is not for the faint of heart. In a tell-it-like-it-is, don’t-hold-back way, Cripsin tells the reader why she refuses to call herself a feminist. And it’s not for the reasons you may think.
REVIEW: Smuggler’s Blues: A True Story of the Hippie Mafia by Richard Stratton
Reviewed by Jennifer JenkinsRichard Stratton started the 1980s as an entrepreneur. He sold drugs, mostly marijuana, but eventually branched out to hashish and others, with the noble credo of plant liberation for the hippie mafia. Then things went terribly wrong. In his memoir, Smuggler’s Blues: A True Story of the Hippie Mafia, (Arcade Publishing, April…
REVIEW: Among Other Things by Robert Long Foreman
One might consider the topics of his essays to be ordinary or mundane objects, but Foreman focuses on them with his thoughtful reflections, historical tidbits, and funny recollections.
Review: The Little Exile by Jeanette S. Arakwa
The Japanese internment camps created by the Unites States as a reaction to the Pearl Harbor Bombing is dark time in American history.
Review: Tell Me How It Ends: An Essay in 40 Questions by Valeria Luiselli
“I’m no policewoman,” Luiselli, a native of Mexico, tries to reassure him. “I’m no official anyone, I’m not even a lawyer…”
Reivew: Three Days In Damascus: A Memoir by Kim Schultz
Three Days In Damacus is a powerful memoir meant to educate the world about the living, breathing, collateral damage who have to rebuild elsewhere since the Iraq war.
