An archive of our reviews of memoirs, essay collections, and other works of creative nonfiction.
[Elaine] loved the American idea of France, but…her experience was that of Colonialism and racism, the very problems she meant to leave behind in the United States.
McNally’s idea for this book originated from Facebook, where many people only posted their “success” updates.
In what women know as a familiar and infuriating experience, Montgomery discovers physicians who won’t listen to her.
Weiss has volunteered through the Peace Corps to spend 27 months in Moldova, a former Soviet Republic between Romania and Ukraine.
Terese Marie Mailhot reflects on the challenges of negotiating the gap between the ugly truth and the art she hopes to make out of it
Richman explores the sanctity and desire for solitude in fifteen essays on varying topics…
Among Schwartz’s most thought-provoking pieces is “In The Land of Double Narrative.”
This is not a collection of stories, essays or fairy tales, though it has elements of all three.
Trauma Cleaner is part-memoir, part-biography, all character study.
The slow, marked, deliberate pace of this memoir is a gift.
