[Gill’s] essays are a series of beginnings, both literal and figurative.
REVIEW: What a House Can Hold by Laura Childs Gill
Category: Reviews
An archive of our reviews of memoirs, essay collections, and other works of creative nonfiction.
REVIEW: To Grieve is To Carry Another Time by Matthew Salesses
Grief does strange things to our experience of time.
REVIEW: No Fats No Fems: A Guide to Queer Empathy and Unpacking Prejudice by Max Hovey
It’s the title that grabs me. No Fats, No Fems: A Guide to Queer Empathy and Unpacking Prejudice is one such title.
REVIEW: The Renoir Girls: A Hidden History of Art, War, and Betrayal by Catherine Ostler
One wears blue, the other pink. They stand side by side as they have for more than a hundred years…
REVIEW: The Solo Honeymoon: A Brief Beautiful True Love Story by Laura Murphy
Murphy starts the book in media res; already on her honeymoon, explaining how she ended up in Europe alone.
REVIEW: The Temple Road: A Doctor’s Journey by Fazlur Rahman
Dr. Fazlur Rahman reflects on his remarkable journey from an early life in what is now Bangladesh to a career treating cancer patients in rural West Texas.
REVIEW: Trash! A Garbageman’s Story by Simon Pare-Poupart
Simon Paré-Poupart delivers an up-close, unfiltered look at trash, the workers whose job it is to collect it…
REVIEW: The Grief Artist by Traci Brimhall
At its heart, the collection asks the question, is it possible to grieve together, publicly?
REVIEW: Desire Lines: A Memoir by Kristen Millares Young
Not only must the author triumph over lingering memories, she also must overcome the constraints of her own body.
REVIEW: Soft Targets: Guns in America and the Kids Caught in the Crossfire by Camila Kerwin
Each statistic in Soft Targets arrives with its own devastating revelation.
