An archive of our reviews of memoirs, essay collections, and other works of creative nonfiction.
Most amateur genealogists manage something less than the accounting of Solomon Grundy, of English nursery rhyme fame. Assembling names and dates into a database…
“This is not another biography of Raymond Chandler,” editor Barry Day asserts in the introduction to The World of Raymond Chandler: In His Own Words “…
Review by Vicki MaykIt was an unremarkable Sunday, Risa Nye writes. There were pancakes for breakfast, newspapers to be read, school projects, Disney videos and an early play date for one of her three children. Those moments of normalcy on October 20, 1991 did not last. Before the day was over, a wildfire would destroy…
Married at 21 and divorced at 25, [Grunow] tries to find compassion from several men, but quickly discovers how relationships can go from promising to disappointing.
David Olimpio’s This Is Not a Confession (Awst Press, 2016) is at turns eloquently self-conscious, wry, and lyrical.
“Did you hear? America is closing the border. The U.S. Congress will stop accepting Soviet Jews: anyone who’s not registered in Vienna won’t be able to go to America.”
“It was not the love of a man that drove me to finally confront my growing waistline;” Amye Archer writes, “rather, it was the leaving of one
Batalion’s relationship with her mother was thwarted by walls—both the emotional walls of dealing with her mother’s underlying illness and the physical barriers built from piles of junk.
When Amber Tozer was 13, she and her best friend crawled out a window, met two boys at the tennis courts, and passed around a bottle of bourbon until Tozer felt like a superhero.
Kushner is a journalist, and as such his writing style is blunt and visceral. He doesn’t shy away from immersing his readers in the experience…
