An archive of our reviews of memoirs, essay collections, and other works of creative nonfiction.
Steven Barker’s debut book is a compilation of essays about what it’s like working as a temporary employee, joining the nearly “17 million contract workers in the U.S.”
It’s hard to fathom, reading this book in 2017, that Richard Stratton would have to do time at all for his offense–smuggling hashish and marijuana into the United States.
Review by Rachel NewcombeDeath is a library with all the lights turned off. –Valencia, James Nulick An unnamed male protagonist is going to die. But before he dies, we follow him to Valencia, Spain, where he checks into the Hotel Valencia for one week. He brings just a few articles of clothing and some…
The delight of Fred Amram’s memoir, We’re In America Now, about growing up as an immigrant to America, arriving at age six in 1939, comes entirely from his verve.
Everybody knows Batman. We just don’t all know the same Batman. He’s weathered quite a few changes in the past 78 years.
The Book of Joy: Lasting Happiness in a Changing World (Avery, September 2016), is His Holiness the Dalai Lama, and Anglican Archbishop Desmond Tutu’s, gift to the world.
As the heart-wrenching experience of infertility gains more public attention, many of the voices belong to women. But Elliot Jager’s multi-layered memoir, The Pater takes a different tack.
Cappello’s almanack…positions itself as a way station of mood: a resting place where writer and reader both might try to make sense of moods, even though life might break the mood at any time.
The first half of Todd’s memoir is an unhackneyed, sometimes comic, always engrossing account of her apprenticeship.
…Immersion gives a lively and thoughtful introduction to the field of immersion journalism or immersion nonfiction.
