Category: Reviews

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

The memoir in essays examines how media and celebrities impact perceptions of same-sex desires and identity.

An essay collection marked by lyrical language, honesty, and humor, invites readers to remain open to experience.

A woman’s personal hell with a philandering husband intersects with a national scandal playing out in the media in this memoir.

Sound – how it can hurt, heal and evoke memory – is the unifying element in this researched memoir in essays.

The search for personal identity while being part of a famous family is the focus of a lyrical, deeply textured memoir.

Self discovery forms a counterpoint with everyday family interactions in a memoir filled with hope and possibility.

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.

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