Category: Reviews

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

An artful variation of essay forms and poetic language mark this artfully written collection.

Shakur’s memoir is a meditation on multiple identities and their place in the larger American society,

A meditative style and use of metaphor elevates the memoir to a study of what nature can teach us about ourselves and our relationships.

The memoir in essays chronicles the author’s journey to find meaning through some of the most devastating events of our time.

A childhood home and the hidden meaning of family language are translated into insights about the memoirist’s past.

The memoir-in-essays about growing up in two countries explores universally relatable themes in exquisite prose.

A nonfiction book that reads like a novel reflects the unpleasant truth of overconsumption in the lives of Mumbai’s wastepickers.

Spain is the backdrop for a memoir frankly exploring the evolution of female desire from childhood to adulthood.

The experimental memoir combines research, reflections on belonging, and a variety of essay forms in the author’s exploration of her past.

Each of the words in Shakespeare’s Sonnet 29 becomes a prompt for the entries in this collection of short prose pieces.

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