Category: Reviews

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

Self discovery forms a counterpoint with everyday family interactions in a memoir filled with hope and possibility.

The author’s experience of navigating the love and loyalties of two sets of parents is told against the backdrop of mid-century Hollywood.

Clarkisha Kent’s memoir Fat Off, Fat On is conversational, snarky, sarcastic, casual, funny, and raw.

I could feel the first pages viscerally, the looming evil of a destructive faith present in the author’s youth as it had been in mine.

The essay collection transports readers from the ordinary to the extraordinary with powerful writing encompassing a breadth of emotions.

In lyrical prose, the collection of brief essays examines subjects both commonplace and profound.

The memoir chronicles a mother’s transformational change as she advocates for her child through chronic illness.

The memoir is a beautiful and at times devastating account of the author’s coming of age as a mixed-race person.

Written to mark Norman Mailer’s centenary, the book offers insights into the literary icon’s craft, inventively and entertainingly told.

The memoir examines a generational legacy of suicide, its impact on those left behind, and society’s attitudes about those who end their lives.

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