In Exit the Body, Heather Bartel presents nine provocative, mind-bending, genre-fluid essays on the nature of identity, personhood, womanhood, and more.
REVIEW: Exit the Body by Heather Bartel
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An archive of our reviews of memoirs, essay collections, and other works of creative nonfiction.
REVIEW: All the Beauty in the World by Patrick Bringley
In his exquisite debut memoir Patrick Bringley walks us through—quite literally—the decade he spent as a guard at the Metropolitan Museum of Art.
REVIEW: The Braille Encyclopedia: Brief Essays on Altered Sight by Naomi Cohn
Review by Sara PisakThe Braille Encyclopedia: Brief Essays on Altered Sight by Naomi Cohn functions as an encyclopedic guided tour through Cohn’s diagnosis and worsening eyesight. Accompanying her on this tour is an unlikely companion, the inventor of braille, Louis Braille. Together Cohn and Braille offer the reader a unique understanding of their lived experiences.…
REVIEW: The Loves of My Life: A Sex Memoir by Edmund White
I wasn’t expecting to laugh and learn my way through something subtitled A Sex Memoir.
REVIEW: Loveland: A Memoir of Romance and Fiction by Susan Ostrov
In Loveland, Susan Ostrov’s lived experience converge to challenge traditional boundaries between the academic and the anecdotal.
REVIEW: Immersion: A Linguist’s Memoir by Linda Murphy Marshall
Immersion: A Linguist’s Memoir by Linda Murphy Marshall chronicles decades of the author’s life in learning and working in foreign languages.
REVIEW: Docile: Memoirs of a Not-So-Perfect Asian Girl by Hyeseung Song
Hyeseung is a first-generation American, born to Korean immigrant parents, and struggled with the unique culture shock that can result….
REVIEW: Everywhere the Undrowned by Stephanie Clare Smith
In Everywhere the Undrowned, Stephanie Clare Smith walks us through the summer she spent on her own, at fourteen, in a New Orleans…
REVIEW: Virginia’s Apple: Collected Memoirs by Judith Barrington
Judith Barrington gives readers an up-close, inside look at England’s second-wave feminist movement…
REVIEW: One of the Boys: Surviving Dartmouth, Family, and the Wilderness of Men by Lynn Lobban
Lynn Lobban her story of breaking through cultural and personal barriers this her feisty and moving memoir.
