An archive of our reviews of memoirs, essay collections, and other works of creative nonfiction.
We all have stories to tell, yet we are not limited to simply performing or writing these stories. Other interests, such as knitting or cooking, can help in portraying our personal stories.
Leigh Stein has a problem. This problem’s name is Jason. He’s an abusive, manipulative, imposter of a man. But here’s the thing; she just can’t get enough of him.
In many ways, Sabeeha Rehman’s memoir, Threading My Prayer Rug, is an immigrant’s story of assimilation
Chloe Caldwell once clogged Cheryl Strayed’s toilet. She also untangled Naomi Wolf’s jewelry.
Most amateur genealogists manage something less than the accounting of Solomon Grundy, of English nursery rhyme fame. Assembling names and dates into a database…
“This is not another biography of Raymond Chandler,” editor Barry Day asserts in the introduction to The World of Raymond Chandler: In His Own Words “…
Review by Vicki MaykIt was an unremarkable Sunday, Risa Nye writes. There were pancakes for breakfast, newspapers to be read, school projects, Disney videos and an early play date for one of her three children. Those moments of normalcy on October 20, 1991 did not last. Before the day was over, a wildfire would destroy…
Married at 21 and divorced at 25, [Grunow] tries to find compassion from several men, but quickly discovers how relationships can go from promising to disappointing.
David Olimpio’s This Is Not a Confession (Awst Press, 2016) is at turns eloquently self-conscious, wry, and lyrical.
“Did you hear? America is closing the border. The U.S. Congress will stop accepting Soviet Jews: anyone who’s not registered in Vienna won’t be able to go to America.”
