Simon uses a remarkable breadth of research: history, technology, climate change, health….
REVIEW: Writing During the Apocalypse: Reflections on the Great Unraveling by Ed Simon
Category: Reviews
An archive of our reviews of memoirs, essay collections, and other works of creative nonfiction.
REVIEW: A Prescription for Burnout by Carolyn Roy-Bornstein
This book is the culmination of [a] this lifetime of care.
REVIEW x2: Take It From Me by Alia Hannah Habib & Verb Your Enthusiasm by Sarah L. Kaufman
Habib and Kaufman, in different but surprisingly complementary ways, have penned craft books worthy of my and (hopefully your) bookshelf.
REVIEW: The Light Between Apple Trees by Priyanka Kumar
…part botany and zoology, part ecology and climate, and part loving portrait of the author’s life…
REVIEW: Tell Me How You Eat: Food, Power, and the Will to Live by Amber Husain
A full spectrum of eating styles gets put under a microscope….
REVIEW: Hit Repeat Until I Hate Music: The March Xness Anthology, Edited by Ander Monson and Megan Campbell
This anthology showcases the very best writing about the very best songs.
REVIEW: The Badge Between Us: Duty, Marriage, and Family by Terrence P Dwyer
The Badge Between Us courageously confronts institutional problems embedded in the culture/career of policing.
REVIEW: Backtalker: An American Memoir by Kimberlé Williams Crenshaw
… it was transformative to read the journey of the scholar who coined the terms “intersectionality.”
REVIEW: Western Star: The Life and Legends of Larry McMurtry by David Streitfeld
…an entertaining and affectionate, though unsentimental, examination of a complicated writer with a complicated career…
REVIEW: This Land is Your Land: A Road Trip Through U.S. History by Beverly Gage
… Gage sets out on a journey of epic proportions, visiting thirteen different destinations in pursuit of answering a question once posed by Benjamin Franklin…
