Former Guerrilla Girl Brahna Yassky’s memoir chronicles reclaiming her life and art after a disfiguring burn.
REVIEW: Slow Dancing With Fire: A Memoir of Resilience by Brahna Yassky
Category: Reviews
An archive of our reviews of memoirs, essay collections, and other works of creative nonfiction.
REVIEW: The Community: A Memoir by N. Jamiyla Chisholm
In a style blending poetic prose and journalistic narrative, the memoir recalls trauma caused by growing up in a religious cult and the path to forgiving a mother.
REVIEW: Bookends: A Memoir of Love, Loss, and Literature by Zibby Owens
Award-winning podcaster Zibby Owens reflects on the events that shaped her life and the books that supported her on the journey.
REVIEW: Heir to the Crescent Moon by Sufiya Abdur-Rahman
The memoir, winner of the Iowa Prize for Literary Nonfiction, explores what it means to be a second-generation Black American Muslim.
REVIEW + INTERVIEW: The Daddy Chronicles by Jayne Martin
Like many fatherless daughters, myself included, Jayne Martin wasn’t without a father in the strictest sense of the term.
REVIEW: Quagmire: Personal Stories from Iraq and Afghanistan edited by Donald Anderson
The collection offers multiple perspectives of the war in Iraq and Afghanistan, told in short essays by soldiers, sisters, scholars, lovers and more.
REVIEW: Slow Fuse of the Possible: A Memoir of Poetry and Psychoanalysis by Kate Daniels
Stream-of-consciousness, vivid imagery and poetic mechanics yields a memoir vividly capturing the author’s experience in psychoanalysis.
REVIEW: My Fourth Time, We Drowned: Seeking Refuge on the World’s Deadliest Migration Route by Sally Hayden
The horrific experiences of African migrants seeking asylum in Europe is the focus of this reported nonfiction book.
REVIEW: A Braided Heart: Essays on Writing and Form by Brenda Miller
Focusing on form, process, and hybridity, creative nonfiction guru Brenda Miller offers guidance and inspiration for writing the lyric essay.
REVIEW: City of Refugees: The Story of Three Newcomers Who Breathed Life Into a Dying American Town by Susan Hartman
The story of three immigrants helping to transform the city of Utica, N.Y., gives fresh insights about refugees forced to flee home.
