An archive of our reviews of memoirs, essay collections, and other works of creative nonfiction.
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.
Danner Darcleight is a promising writer, a devoted friend, and a loving husband. He is also a convicted murderer…
At first, I was nervous to read David Brubaker’s Liberace’s Filipino Cousin…. I was nervous because of my own preconceptions…
… every time she sat down at a computer, the blank page and blinking cursor questioned her: “Why are you writing this story?”
If you own a couch, a bed, jeans, shirts, t-shirts, towels, sheets, a handkerchief, or even a single pair of socks, then you are in direct contact with cotton.
Sir Ernest Shackleton set out on the Imperial Trans-Antarctic Expedition to cross Antarctica in 1914. If you’re savvy to this sort of history, you’ll remember that he never made it.
While the cover of the book states: “Essays by Joel Peckham,” these are not the common essays you’d would expect.
