There is a particular cruelty in grief’s relationship to language.
REVIEW: Letting Grief Speak: Writing Portals for Life After Loss by Diane Zinna
Category: Reviews
An archive of our reviews of memoirs, essay collections, and other works of creative nonfiction.
REVIEW: Living, Together: Reimagining Community in the Age of Disconnection, Edited by Samantha Paige Rosen
The homes where we spend our days — and who we share them with — shape our lives immeasurably.
REVIEW: Relative Strangers: Inheritance, Identity and the Meaning of Kinship, Edited by B.K. Jackson
Reading Relative Strangers can, at times, feel like reading someone’s diary.
REVIEW: Bitter, Sweet: How to Heal Yourself When Your Family Is Broken by Stephanie Weaver
Bitter, Sweet explores the devastating impact of child sexual abuse on its survivors.
REVIEW: Correction: Parole, Prison, and the Possibility of Change by Ben Austen
Ben Austen incorporates stunning statistics and thoughtful analysis to tell the story of America’s long, sordid infatuation with incarceration.
REVIEW: United States of Rejection: A Story of Love, Hate, and Hope by Alison Kinney
United States of Rejection pushes your thinking about how much of American life centers on the idea of rejecting others.
REVIEW: Take This For the Pain: Essays on Writing and Life by Alex Boyd
Boyd’s selections showcase a writing life that is also intimately shaped by reading.
REVIEW: Rough House by Alison Lyn Miller
Rough House raises some troubling questions even as it artfully and diligently provides answers to many others.
REVIEW: Monster of a Land: On the Road in Search of Modern America by Lauren Hough
Monster of a Land …. is a book about looking, really looking, at a country and its people.
REVIEW: Other People’s Mothers by Julie Marie Wade
These nine essays stand like identical houses on identical lots: the magic is in each interior.
