The book blends philosophy and literary theory to challenge memoirists – and writers in general — to consider the broader implications of their craft.
REVIEW: Artful Truths: The Philosophy of Memoir by Helena de Bres
Category: Reviews
An archive of our reviews of memoirs, essay collections, and other works of creative nonfiction.
REVIEW: Special Topics in Being A Human: A Queer and Tender Guide to Things I’ve Learned the Hard Way… by S. Bear Bergman
The book’s “special topics” are the ways that we interact with, empathize with, and support our fellow humans that make for a better life.
REVIEW: Saga Boy: My Life of Blackness and Becoming by Antonio Michael Downing
A beautifully written and captivating look at how one Black boy’s identity is shaped by landscape, relationships, and family.
REVIEW: Telephone: essays in two voices by Brenda Miller and Julie Marie Wade
The collection reads like life itself with the simple unpredictable connection of every moment.
REVIEW: All the Leavings by Laurie Easter
In this collection the natural world exists as a place of solace where lessons can be learned from natural cycles.
REVIEW: Diary of a Young Naturalist by Dara McAnulty
Through the ebb and flow of one young man’s year, we are urged to confront ourselves, to linger, learn, and grow.
REVIEW: Good Neighbors, Bad Times Revisited: New Echoes of My Father’s German Village by Mimi Schwartz
The book focuses, not on the horrors of the Holocaust, but on the small stories that have no place in history.
REVIEW: Peyakow: Reclaiming Cree Dignity by Darrel McLeod
Darrel McLeod’s story moves beyond the personal and offers insights into the injustices suffered by Canada’s indigenous peoples.
REVIEW: The Good Poetic Mother: A Daughter’s Memoir by Irene Hoge Smith
In telling the story of a mother’s abandonment and eventual life as a poet and paramour of Charles Bukowski, the memoir reveals a true, hard, beautiful vision within.
REVIEW: Ninety-Nine Fire Hoops: A Memoir by Allison Hong Merrill
The memoir traces the author’s early life in Taiwan, examining the powerful cycles of abuse into which she was born her journey to break them.
