Category: Reviews

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

The author’s experience of navigating the love and loyalties of two sets of parents is told against the backdrop of mid-century Hollywood.

Clarkisha Kent’s memoir Fat Off, Fat On is conversational, snarky, sarcastic, casual, funny, and raw.

I could feel the first pages viscerally, the looming evil of a destructive faith present in the author’s youth as it had been in mine.

The essay collection transports readers from the ordinary to the extraordinary with powerful writing encompassing a breadth of emotions.

In lyrical prose, the collection of brief essays examines subjects both commonplace and profound.

The memoir chronicles a mother’s transformational change as she advocates for her child through chronic illness.

The memoir is a beautiful and at times devastating account of the author’s coming of age as a mixed-race person.

Written to mark Norman Mailer’s centenary, the book offers insights into the literary icon’s craft, inventively and entertainingly told.

The memoir examines a generational legacy of suicide, its impact on those left behind, and society’s attitudes about those who end their lives.

Written with honesty and grit, the memoir overturns stereotypes about addiction and recovery.

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