REVIEW: The Tilling by Matthew Morris September 15, 2025 The fragmentation Morris feels when it comes to his racial identity comes through in the many rhythmic tangents on which he takes his readers…. Read full story →
REVIEW & INTERVIEW: The Loneliness Files by Athena Dixon October 8, 2023 We review The Loneliness Files and then speak with author Athena Dixon in this double feature. Read full story →
REVIEW: The In-Betweens by Davon Loeb May 16, 2023 The memoir is a beautiful and at times devastating account of the author’s coming of age as a mixed-race person. Read full story →
REVIEW: Craft and Conscience: How To Write About Social Issues by Kavita Das January 17, 2023 Writing about sociopolitical issues is a craft issue examined in a timely book for writers of all experience levels. Read full story →
REVIEW: Heir to the Crescent Moon by Sufiya Abdur-Rahman July 8, 2022 The memoir, winner of the Iowa Prize for Literary Nonfiction, explores what it means to be a second-generation Black American Muslim. Read full story →
REVIEW: Ninety-Nine Fire Hoops: A Memoir by Allison Hong Merrill October 8, 2021 The memoir traces the author’s early life in Taiwan, examining the powerful cycles of abuse into which she was born her journey to break them. Read full story →
REVIEW: Northern Light: Power, Land and the Memory of Water by Kazim Ali May 10, 2021 Kazim Ali begins his memoir, “I’ve always had a hard time answering the question, ‘Where are you from?’” Read full story →
REVIEW: World of Wonders by Aimee Nezhukumatathil December 2, 2020 The first chapter of World of Wonders… opens with a Catalpa Tree in western Kansas. The tree is both literal and metaphor. Read full story →
REVIEW: From the Lake House by Kristen Rademacher August 4, 2020 At first, Kristen is charmed by Jason’s stories of deer hunting and NASCAR, which she contrasts with her “preppy New England” schooling and love of Broadway Read full story →
REVIEW: Know My Name by Chanel Miller April 4, 2020 On June 3, 2016, BuzzFeed published Emily Doe’s victim impact statement which was read by millions worldwide. Read full story →