Category: Reviews

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

As a student of football and of writing about it, I was first drawn to the simplicity of the title.

Like Eurie Dahn, many of my memories are wrapped up in food.

For those of us who aspire to write micro, Fennelly shows us how it’s done ….

If I were to use one word to describe Governing Bodie, it would be tender.

Griffiths’ accounting of her life since marrying fellow author Salman Rushdie in 2021 is Biblical.

The timing of this book is impeccable, as America’s gargantuan fascist elephant keeps tromping his way around the global room….

Woman House: Essays and Assemblages is, among other things, a book about secrets.

Anywhere Else: Essays on Florida by Rachel Knox is part love letter to the author’s home state and part reckoning.

One Bad Mother: In Praise of Psycho Housewives, Stage Parents, Momfluencers, and Other Women We Love dives into many tropes.

Metronome is part historical retelling, part sociological examination of the place of the little object’s presence in our lives.

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