This is a book that insists we look closely at what most people would rather not see.
REVIEW: Because I Knew You: How Some Remarkable Sick Kids Healed a Doctor’s Soul by Robert Macauley
Category: Reviews
An archive of our reviews of memoirs, essay collections, and other works of creative nonfiction.
REVIEW: Shattered: A Memoir by Hanif Kureishi
Shattered: A Memoir starts with Hanif Kureishi recounting the accident that changed his life.
REVIEW: The Boat Not Taken: A North Korean Daughter and Her Mother’s Story by Joanna Choi Kalbus
In The Boat Not Taken, the author deftly, honestly, and vividly pieces together the known facts of her widowed mother’s life….
INTERVIEW: Michelle Yang, Author of Phoenix Girl: How a Fat Asian with Bipolar Found Love
A staunch and highly vocal advocate, Michelle Yang has made a name for herself in the national conversation about bipolar disorder
REVIEW: Held Together by Rebecca N. Thompson
Rebecca N. Thompson presents a broad spectrum of experiences and a diverse group of women from different backgrounds and nontraditional families.
REVIEW: Human/Animal: A Bestiary in Essays by Amie Souza Reilly
Human/Animal is an ambitious, braided essay collection that resists easy answers.
REVIEW: Everything is Fine, I’ll Just Work Harder by Cara Gormally
Cara Gormally delivers a quietly radical graphic memoir that explores how trauma embeds itself in the body, mutates into perfectionism.
REVIEW: What My Father and I Don’t Talk About, Edited by Michele Filgate
Perhaps I was foolish to review this beautiful collection—my father died when I was 14, and the weight of what he and I can’t talk about is ever-present….
REVIEW: Deep House: The Gayest Love Story Ever Told by Jeremy Atherton Lin
Lin unleashes the full breadth of his research skills, unraveling the history of same-sex unions and the marriage equality movement…
REVIEW: Son of a Bird by Nin Andrews
“Son of a bird” was what Andrews’s Black nanny called her when she’d been naughty.
