Kazim Ali begins his memoir, “I’ve always had a hard time answering the question, ‘Where are you from?’”
REVIEW: Northern Light: Power, Land and the Memory of Water by Kazim Ali
Category: Reviews
An archive of our reviews of memoirs, essay collections, and other works of creative nonfiction.
REVIEW: Get Thee to a Bakery: Essays by Rick Bailey
Bailey, a retired writing professor, weaves multiple themes and anecdotes through each of his essays…
REVIEW: The Best of Brevity, edited by Dinty W. Moore and Zoe Bossiere
Brevity’s reputation as a leading publication in creative nonfiction is evidenced over and over again….
REVIEW: Swing: A Memoir of Doing It All by Ashleigh Renard
Attending sex clubs was far from habitual for Renard and her husband.
REVIEW: Selling the Farm by Debra Di Blasi
The memoir blends poetry and prose in a way that makes you want to mark every line to revisit and unpack later.
REVIEW: To Hell with It by Dinty W. Moore
…you descend through the circles of hell with Dinty—instead of Virgil—as your expert guide, learning about religious hypocrisy as you go.
Review: Seconds and Inches by Carly Israel
Israel is not only a great writer, but she particularly shines when she reflects on the cycles of family trauma….
REVIEW: Magnetized: Conversations with a Serial Killer by Carlos Busqued (translated by Samuel Rutter)
One of our first natural reactions when we hear of a pre-meditated murder is to ask a simple, one-word question: “Why?”
REVIEW: World of Wonders by Aimee Nezhukumatathil
The first chapter of World of Wonders… opens with a Catalpa Tree in western Kansas. The tree is both literal and metaphor.
REVIEW: Of Color by Jaswinder Bolina
I read fewer books this year than any year of my adulthood. But then a poet recommended Of Color, by Jaswinder Bolina, on social media.
