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Reviewed by Dorothy Rice The Boat Not Taken: A North Korean Daughter and Her Mom’s Story (Betty; Might 2025) by Joanna Choi Kalbus is among the first titles from WTAW Press’ (a 501(c)(3) nonprofit) new imprint, Betty, established by director and editor-in-chief Peg Alford Pursell particularly for books by ladies, with the purpose of showcasing…
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Reviewed by Sara Pisak It’s honest to say that after a fall on Boxing Day whereas in Rome, Hanif Kureishi felt his life and the lives of these round him had been shattered. Each typographically and metaphorically, the quilt of his memoir tells the reader as a lot with “hanif kureishi. shattered. a memoir” highlighted…
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Reviewed by Elizabeth Austin Writing about dying youngsters is a near-impossible activity. The topic indicators, instantly, that this won’t be a straightforward learn, and that the terrain forward is steeped in grief and concern and helplessness. And but, in As a result of I Knew You: How Some Outstanding Sick Children Healed a Physician’s Soul (Chehalem…
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Reviewed by Brian Watson Melissa Febos’ The Dry Season: A Memoir of Pleasure in a 12 months With out Intercourse appears to demand two totally different critiques. One for readers of memoirs and one for writers of memoirs. For the readers, let me start right here. I fell in love on the first sentence: “It’s raining.”…
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Reviewed by Carolyn Roy-Bornstein What many people find out about orphans has been formed largely round fiction. From the sketch Little Orphan Annie to the novel sequence The Boxcar Youngsters; from Annie the musical to after college TV specials like Get together of 5, the narrative arc of the American orphan is identical. Mother and father…
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Reviewed by Leslie Lindsay Twenty years in the past, in a Prairie-style group hospital in the course of a Minnesota cornfield, I gave start to my first daughter. Like Erica Stern, I used to be on the sting of a brand new frontier. Like Erica Stern, I had idealized motherhood via tender diaper commercials and…
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Interviewed by Morgan Baker In 2013, my division chair at Emerson Faculty requested if I might be considering working with a grad pupil on her memoir. I mentioned sure, instantly. That pupil was Jennifer Crystal, writer of One Tick Stopped the Clock. A few years later, I sat within the viewers at Porter Sq. Books…
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Reviewed by Brian Watson Anthologies are an inherently dangerous enterprise. In What My Father and I Don’t Discuss About: 16 Writers Break the Silence (Simon & Schuster; Could 2025), editor Michele Filgate builds on the success of her earlier venture, What My Mom and I Don’t Discuss About, and recruits fifteen different writers to affix…
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Reviewed by Elizabeth Austin In All the things is High quality, I’ll Simply Work Tougher: Confessions of a Former Badass (Road Noise Books, 2025), Cara Gormally delivers a quietly radical graphic memoir that explores how trauma embeds itself within the physique, mutates into perfectionism, and hides beneath the masks of excessive achievement. Rendered in clear…
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Reviewed by Sarah Rosenthal I grew up in coastal southern Connecticut, doubtless not removed from the place the occasions of Amie Souza Reilly’s essay assortment, Human/Animal: A Bestiary in Essays, came about. After I inform individuals I’m assembly for the primary time this reality about myself, they could make a reference to Stepford Wives, Revolutionary…