…part botany and zoology, part ecology and climate, and part loving portrait of the author’s life…
REVIEW: The Light Between Apple Trees by Priyanka Kumar
Category: Reviews
An archive of our reviews of memoirs, essay collections, and other works of creative nonfiction.
REVIEW: Tell Me How You Eat: Food, Power, and the Will to Live by Amber Husain
A full spectrum of eating styles gets put under a microscope….
REVIEW: Hit Repeat Until I Hate Music: The March Xness Anthology, Edited by Ander Monson and Megan Campbell
This anthology showcases the very best writing about the very best songs.
REVIEW: The Badge Between Us: Duty, Marriage, and Family by Terrence P Dwyer
The Badge Between Us courageously confronts institutional problems embedded in the culture/career of policing.
REVIEW: Backtalker: An American Memoir by Kimberlé Williams Crenshaw
… it was transformative to read the journey of the scholar who coined the terms “intersectionality.”
REVIEW: Western Star: The Life and Legends of Larry McMurtry by David Streitfeld
…an entertaining and affectionate, though unsentimental, examination of a complicated writer with a complicated career…
REVIEW: This Land is Your Land: A Road Trip Through U.S. History by Beverly Gage
… Gage sets out on a journey of epic proportions, visiting thirteen different destinations in pursuit of answering a question once posed by Benjamin Franklin…
REVIEW: The Allure of Elsewhere: A Memoir of Going Solo by Karen Babine
I felt a deep kinship with Babine as I read
REVIEW: Healing Through Wonder: How Awe Restores Us Through Trauma and Loss by Val Walker
Walker’s book makes an argument for wonder because it can actually help survivors of many life circumstances.
REVIEW: When Longing Becomes Your Lover by Amanda McCracken
[Amanda] has just been introduced to the term limerence — an intense infatuation, an obsessiveness, or an unfulfilled longing…
