Category: Reviews

An archive of our reviews of memoirs, essay collections, and other works of creative nonfiction.

[This collection] begins with a title essay so moving, complex, and powerful that I had to put the book down just to let the work settle…

I was struck then and am struck now, having read Gutkind’s book, by the notion that confessional writing is subversive.

Splinters follows the twisted, unexpected journey of becoming a new parent.

The Hurricane Book by Claudia Acevedo-Quiñonesis a hybrid memoir and history of her family and Puerto Rico

A surgical resident’s memoir of the first six months of the COVID-19 pandemic is an uncompromising account from healthcare’s front lines.

There’s a difference between truth and fact. Sure, we can’t just make stuff up, so CNF is rooted in actual experience.

The memoir reconstructs the author’s complicated past, ordering a life of contradictions amid the fallibility of memory.

The prize-winning memoir pushes the boundaries of the creative nonfiction form as a mother examines her child’s seizure disorder.

The memoir offers a fragmented, lyrical exploration of the natural world, the idea of home, motherhood, and surviving the unknown.

Food is the narrative thread used to make sense of grief, past relationships and family in this lyrical collection.

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