Category: Reviews

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

Lin unleashes the full breadth of his research skills, unraveling the history of same-sex unions and the marriage equality movement…

“Son of a bird” was what Andrews’s Black nanny called her when she’d been naughty.

McAllister pulls off something wonderful, connecting ordinary life moments to the larger political and cultural perspectives of the time….

Fairly presenting the event-laden, controversy-crammed lives of this talented quartet…is a task that would intimidate…any sensible biographer.

For Lynne Golodner, the dual searches for home and voice are closely related.

Editor Dinah Lenney presents 36 provocative, genre-fluid micro essays by a diverse and powerful cast of writers.

Hannah Selinger gives voice to the unseen labor and emotional toll that the restaurant industry takes on its workers….

Marianna Marlowe walks us through stages of her life in vignettes that trace her forming and evolving feminist viewpoint of the world.

Lester Fabian Brathwaite inhabits an intersection — a mother lode of bias — where racism, homophobia, ableism, and xenophobia collide.

Jaros not only tells us about developing self-trust — she invites us to lace up our own boots and cultivate it within our own journey

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