An archive of our reviews of memoirs, essay collections, and other works of creative nonfiction.
“Our intent is to create a family cabin—a retreat to remain in the family for generations.” And that is precisely what Spike Carlsen and his wife, Kat, have done, along with their five children.
Tim Kenny has a tendency to end up in faraway places, particularly those on the edge of political or social change.
Jennifer Hayden’s The Story of My Tits is an experience. At its base, this graphic memoir is exactly what it claims to be—an account of the rise and fall of a woman’s breasts.
Barnett fills her narrative with such rarely seen, rarely mentioned observations. Over and over, she focuses on the uncommon details of natural phenomena and historical events most of us never think twice about…
In The Art of Memoir Karr combines practical advice with intangible wisdom, which fuses together beautifully to create a useful guide that also inspires.
Once you walk into the airport “you’ve already begun to be someone else,” writes Kevin Oderman in his collection of deeply felt meditations on the art of travel
After nine years of battling with prostate cancer, Jeff Metcalf’s doctors told him that the drugs keeping his cancer at bay were no longer working.
Sides writes: “The scenery grew more impressive: ice-gouged fjords, towering bergs calved fresh from the glaciers, the crisp sound of cold surf lapping against the pack, ringed seals peeking through the ice,
On the happiness book spectrum, O’s Little Book of Happiness falls somewhere between happiness memoir and motivational cat poster.
On Nov. 20, 1820, an infuriated sperm whale in the Pacific Ocean charged at the whale ship Essex, causing a crew of 20 men to escape into three smaller whale boats.
