Category: Reviews

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

In Loveland, Susan Ostrov’s lived experience converge to challenge traditional boundaries between the academic and the anecdotal.

Immersion: A Linguist’s Memoir by Linda Murphy Marshall chronicles decades of the author’s life in learning and working in foreign languages.

Hyeseung is a first-generation American, born to Korean immigrant parents, and struggled with the unique culture shock that can result….

In Everywhere the Undrowned, Stephanie Clare Smith walks us through the summer she spent on her own, at fourteen, in a New Orleans…

Judith Barrington gives readers an up-close, inside look at England’s second-wave feminist movement…

Lynn Lobban her story of breaking through cultural and personal barriers this her feisty and moving memoir.

…dry wit and humor are part of what makes this grueling tale so compelling a read….

“How much pain can you handle?” Repeated multiple times….this question guides the narrative,

While pitched as an adventure story… it is so much more than that…. It’s a “finding one’s “own voice and learn[ing] to trust it” coming-of-age story…

Gerber is a writer’s writer, sharing memories of more than 60 years of working at the craft

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