Tim Kenny has a tendency to end up in faraway places, particularly those on the edge of political or social change.
Far Country: Stories from Abroad and Other Places by Timothy Kenny
Category: Reviews
An archive of our reviews of memoirs, essay collections, and other works of creative nonfiction.
Review: The Story of My Tits by Jennifer Hayden
Jennifer Hayden’s The Story of My Tits is an experience. At its base, this graphic memoir is exactly what it claims to be—an account of the rise and fall of a woman’s breasts.
Review: Rain: A Natural and Cultural History by Cynthia Barnett
Barnett fills her narrative with such rarely seen, rarely mentioned observations. Over and over, she focuses on the uncommon details of natural phenomena and historical events most of us never think twice about…
Review: The Art of Memoir by Mary Karr
In The Art of Memoir Karr combines practical advice with intangible wisdom, which fuses together beautifully to create a useful guide that also inspires.
Review: Transmogrified by Travel — Cannot Stay: Essays on Travel by Kevin Oderman
Once you walk into the airport “you’ve already begun to be someone else,” writes Kevin Oderman in his collection of deeply felt meditations on the art of travel
Review: Requiem for the Living by Jeff Metcalf
After nine years of battling with prostate cancer, Jeff Metcalf’s doctors told him that the drugs keeping his cancer at bay were no longer working.
Review: In the Kingdom of Ice: The Grand and Terrible Polar Voyage of the USS Jeanette by Hampton Sides
Sides writes: “The scenery grew more impressive: ice-gouged fjords, towering bergs calved fresh from the glaciers, the crisp sound of cold surf lapping against the pack, ringed seals peeking through the ice,
Review: O’s Little Book of Happiness
On the happiness book spectrum, O’s Little Book of Happiness falls somewhere between happiness memoir and motivational cat poster.
Review: Wreck of the Whale Ship Essex: The Extraordinary and Distressing Memoir That Inspired Herman Melville’s Moby-Dick by Owen Chase / Introduction by Gilbert King
On Nov. 20, 1820, an infuriated sperm whale in the Pacific Ocean charged at the whale ship Essex, causing a crew of 20 men to escape into three smaller whale boats.
Review: Recapitulations by Vincent Crapanzano
Vincent Crapanzano grew up in the 1940s on the grounds of a psychiatric institution where his father worked as a resident physician.
