The memoir reconstructs the author’s complicated past, ordering a life of contradictions amid the fallibility of memory.
REVIEW: Hell If We Don’t Change Our Ways by Brittany Means
Category: Reviews
An archive of our reviews of memoirs, essay collections, and other works of creative nonfiction.
REVIEW: A Petit Mal: A Mother’s Healing Love Song by Ana María Caballero
The prize-winning memoir pushes the boundaries of the creative nonfiction form as a mother examines her child’s seizure disorder.
REVIEW: Cacophony of Bone: The Circle of a Year by Kerri ní Dochartaigh
The memoir offers a fragmented, lyrical exploration of the natural world, the idea of home, motherhood, and surviving the unknown.
REVIEW: All Things Edible, Random and Odd: Essays on Grief, Love & Food by Sheila Squillante
Food is the narrative thread used to make sense of grief, past relationships and family in this lyrical collection.
REVIEW: Awakenings: Stories of Body & Consciousness edited by Diane Gottlieb
The voice of the body and the need to listen to it runs through this essay collection.
REVIEW: incurable optimist: living with illness and chronic hope by Jennifer Cramer-Miller
The memoir chronicles the author’s decades-long journey battling a life-threatening autoimmune disorder.
REVIEW: Love in the Archives: A Patchwork of True Stories About Suicide Loss by Eileen Vorbach Collins
The memoir in essays is a heartbreaking chronicle of a teenage daughter’s death by suicide.
REVIEW: Disequilibria: Meditations on Missingness by Robert Lunday
A deeply researched essay collection examines the complexity of loss and closure.
REVIEW: Touched Out by Amanda Montei
A hybrid of memoir, cultural criticism and theory explores themes of motherhood, misogyny, consent, and control.
REVIEW: Night Mother: A Personal and Cultural History of The Exorcist by Marlena Williams
The author explores her relationship with her mother while examining the mother/daughter bond in the classic horror film.
