Tag: issues
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Reviewed by Kirtan Nautiyal In her debut memoir Brother Epistles: A Sister’s Memoir (Cut up/Lip Press; June 2026), Dr. Shanda McManus displays on a life with out her youthful brother Monir, who was murdered in a drive-by capturing in 1992. It’s a luxurious she didn’t afford herself on the time. Nonetheless near a childhood in…
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Reviewed by Marissa Gallerani Sifting the Female: Essays on a Lady’s Physique by Ashley Anderson (College of Georgia Press,;March 2026) is a group of essays analyzing Anderson’s relationship to her physique and her power sickness in a post-Roe world. The ebook is structured into separate essays which are devoted to completely different physique elements. Frequent…
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Reviewed by Brian Watson The Downside Drinker (Conflict Books; June 2026) took me on one heck of a journey, a journey that resulted in a loud burst of uproarious laughter when I discovered a blurb from Kouri’s girlfriend, CJ Leede, famed creator of Maeve Fly, that reads, “Greatest ebook I’ve ever learn. Writer’s tremendous sizzling.” Objectives.…
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Generally, as a reader and reviewer, I discover myself in a little bit of a taxonomic pickle. Usually, inside one style there’s a reputation for some high quality or method that doesn’t simply map to different genres, and this could make speaking about kind each attention-grabbing and messy. As a poet, I’m aware of the…
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Rejection is a kind of issues all of us have skilled however normally don’t like to speak about. There was the crush who turned you down for a date, the dream job that didn’t name you for an interview, the youngsters who wouldn’t allow you to be part of their recreation on the playground. Author…
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Typically I miss listening to a few new, good guide when it first comes out. All of us do. When a colleague steered I take a look at Ben Austen’s most up-to-date work, Correction: Parole, Jail, and the Chance of Change (Flatiron Books; Nov. 2023), I noticed this was one such “missed” guide. Correction acquired…
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Bitter, Candy: Methods to Heal Your self When Your Household Is Damaged (Woodhall Press; April 2026) by Stephanie Weaver explores the devastating influence of kid sexual abuse (CSA) on its survivors. A hybrid self-help memoir, the primary a part of the e-book particulars Weaver’s realization that she was a sufferer of CSA and, extra horrifyingly, by…
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“Adopted individuals typically stay with a quiet, lifelong fracture, a deep sense of being unmoored, a sense of not belonging. No quantity of reassuring phrases fill that void. We’re by no means fairly relaxed. By no means totally dwelling.” — Louise Brown, “Fifteen Minutes” Sure human experiences are ineffable. They’re deeply visceral, altering our…
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Reviewed by Marissa Gallerani In her mid 30s, childless, and single, Karen Babine decides to take a roadtrip to study extra about her household’s Acadian roots. Her route takes her from her residence state of Minnesota, up by way of Canada, all the way down to Maine, after which again throughout the Midwest. Babine’s memoir,…
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Reviewed by Lindsay Bennett Impressed by America’s semiquincentennial (2026 marks the 250th anniversary of the signing of the Declaration of Independence), Pulitzer-prize profitable writer Beverly Gage provides us This Land is Your Land: A Highway Journey By U.S. Historical past (Simon & Schuster; April 2026). Guided by her perspective as a historian (Gage teaches American Historical…