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: Among Other Things by Robert Long Foreman
Category: Reviews
An archive of our reviews of memoirs, essay collections, and other works of creative nonfiction.
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…”
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.
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.
REVIEW: Now for the Disappointing Part: A Pseudo-Adult’s Decade of Short-Term Jobs, Long-Term Relationships, and Holding Out for Something Better by Steven Barker
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.”
REVIEW — Kingpin: Prisoner of the War on Drugs by Richard Stratton
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: Valencia by James Nulick
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…
REVIEW — We’re in America Now: A Survivor’s Stories by Fred Amram
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.
REVIEW: The Caped Crusade: Batman and the Rise of Nerd Culture by Glen Weldon
Everybody knows Batman. We just don’t all know the same Batman. He’s weathered quite a few changes in the past 78 years.
REVIEW: The Book of Joy: Lasting Happiness in a Changing World by 14th Dalai Lama, Desmond Tutu and Douglas Abrams
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.
