Camouflage by Heather Sweeney is an eye-opening primer on the complexities of military life and the indignities of military divorce….
REVIEW: Camouflage: How I Emerged from the Shadows of a Military Marriage by Heather Sweeney
Year: 2025
REVIEW: The Sound Atlas: A Guide to Strange Sounds Across Landscapes and Imagination by Michaela Viser and Isaac Yuen
The Sound Atlas takes the reader on a sonic odyssey that explores the aural terra incognita of our planet and beyond.
Hippocampus Magazine Announces 2025 Pushcart Prize Nominees for Creative Nonfiction
Hippocampus Magazine is delighted to announce our six Pushcart Prize nominations for 2025, which include three essays and three flash essays.
INTERVIEW: Jennifer Case, Author of We Are Animals: On the Nature and Politics of Motherhood
The book as a whole offered a space for me to untangle what it means to have control or choice….
REVIEW: If You Say So by Michelle Herman
If You Say So offers an insightful reflection on aging, grief, and finding unexpected community later in life.
REVIEW: A Silent Treatment: A Memoir by Jeannie Vanasco
A brave, relatable testament to one daughter’s commitment to stay in relationship with her mother, no matter how difficult….
REVIEW: Walking With Beth: Conversations With My Hundred-Year-Old Friend by Merilyn Simonds
Walking with Beth is a testament to the enduring nature of both female and intergenerational friendship.
REVIEW: Giving Up the Ghost: A Daughter’s Memoir by Samantha Rose
At first, Rose’s grief journey is solitary, but she is buttressed by her younger, can-do sisters….
REVIEW: Bigger: Essays by Ren Cedar Fuller
In each of her essays, Fuller peels back layer after layer of her family’s ways.
REVIEW: Getting Dressed in the Dark by Gabriella D’Italia
When Getting Dressed in the Dark opens, we find D’Italia in a period of deep emotional turmoil.
