Category: Reviews

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

The Problem Drinker took me on one heck of a ride.

A collection of essays examining Anderson’s relationship to her body and her chronic illness in a post-Roe world.

Shanda McManus reflects on a life without her younger brother Monir, who was murdered in a drive-by shooting in 1992.

A memoir that refuses easy redemption not because she’s withholding, but because she’s after something more useful; something real.

Glasses, as of July 2026, is the latest in the series of 100+ books in Bloomsbury’s Object Lessons series.

[Ramsey] describes with brutal honesty her experience with chronic illness, medical gaslighting, and trauma during her young adult years.

The heftiest theme pushing this narrative forward … is Docherty’s constant yearning….

Rosie is an irresistible literary memoir with a vibrant, easy-to-follow story….

[Rasheena] reckons with a painful past where the demarcation of Black and White lives was drawn in stark lines.

“To be a Black girl is both a noun and a verb,” opens Amena Brown….

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