Tag: elizabeth austin
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Reviewed by Elizabeth Austin Arianna Rebolini’s Higher: A Memoir of Wanting To Die (Harper; April 2025) is a unprecedented hybrid, weaving collectively confessional narrative, exhaustive analysis, and cultural evaluation. Rebolini examines the writings and deaths of well-known suicides, critiques the psychological healthcare system, explores familial patterns of psychological sickness, and asks the elemental query that haunts…
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Reviewed by Elizabeth Austin There are books you learn, after which there are books that learn you: books that attain into your coronary heart and extract experiences you thought have been yours alone, holding them as much as the sunshine so you may see them clearly. Betsy Cornwell’s (Avid Reader Press/Simon & Schuster; September 2025)…
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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 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…