Category: Reviews

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

Award-winning podcaster Zibby Owens reflects on the events that shaped her life and the books that supported her on the journey.

The memoir, winner of the Iowa Prize for Literary Nonfiction, explores what it means to be a second-generation Black American Muslim.

Like many fatherless daughters, myself included, Jayne Martin wasn’t without a father in the strictest sense of the term.

The collection offers multiple perspectives of the war in Iraq and Afghanistan, told in short essays by soldiers, sisters, scholars, lovers and more.

Stream-of-consciousness, vivid imagery and poetic mechanics yields a memoir vividly capturing the author’s experience in psychoanalysis.

The horrific experiences of African migrants seeking asylum in Europe is the focus of this reported nonfiction book.

Focusing on form, process, and hybridity, creative nonfiction guru Brenda Miller offers guidance and inspiration for writing the lyric essay.

The story of three immigrants helping to transform the city of Utica, N.Y., gives fresh insights about refugees forced to flee home.

The memoir of growing up amid Ireland’s strife weaves together politics, the natural world and the author’s story.

Americans’ affinity for nostalgia becomes a personal exploration of family, race and memories in this thoughtful essay collection.

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