REVIEW: Virginia’s Apple: Collected Memoirs by Judith Barrington December 11, 2024 Judith Barrington gives readers an up-close, inside look at England’s second-wave feminist movement… Read the full story →
REVIEW: What Kind of Bird Can’t Fly: A Memoir of Resilience and Resurrection by Dorsey Nunn September 9, 2024 Dorsey Nunn never forgot the question a friend asked him on the day he walked out of San Quentin Prison. Read the full story →
REVIEW: Thunder Song: Essays, by Sasha taqʷšəblu LaPointe June 12, 2024 What pushes Sasha LaPointe’s essays to another level are the themes distinctive to her individual story as an Upper Skagit and Nooksack Indian Tribe punk rocker. Read the full story →
REVIEW: Awakenings: Stories of Body & Consciousness edited by Diane Gottlieb December 11, 2023 The voice of the body and the need to listen to it runs through this essay collection. Read the full story →
REVIEW: Fat Off, Fat On: A Big Bitch Manifesto by Clarkisha Kent June 6, 2023 Clarkisha Kent’s memoir Fat Off, Fat On is conversational, snarky, sarcastic, casual, funny, and raw. Read the full story →
REVIEW: When They Tell You to Be Good by Prince Shakur December 19, 2022 Shakur’s memoir is a meditation on multiple identities and their place in the larger American society, Read the full story →
REVIEW: My Fourth Time, We Drowned: Seeking Refuge on the World’s Deadliest Migration Route by Sally Hayden June 6, 2022 The horrific experiences of African migrants seeking asylum in Europe is the focus of this reported nonfiction book. Read the full story →
REVIEW: Saga Boy: My Life of Blackness and Becoming by Antonio Michael Downing December 6, 2021 A beautifully written and captivating look at how one Black boy’s identity is shaped by landscape, relationships, and family. Read the full story →
REVIEW: Kissing Fidel: A Memoir of Cuban American Terrorism in the United States by Magda Montiel Davis June 7, 2021 Many Cuban exiliados — exiles — in the U.S. joke that their “BC” is “Before Castro,” the years before Fidel Castro took power. Read the full story →
REVIEW: Magnetized: Conversations with a Serial Killer by Carlos Busqued (translated by Samuel Rutter) December 2, 2020 One of our first natural reactions when we hear of a pre-meditated murder is to ask a simple, one-word question: “Why?” Read the full story →