Tag: issues
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Reviewed by Melissa Oliviera “Once I make a quilt,” textile artist Gabriella D’Italia writes in her new memoir Getting Dressed within the Darkish: An Artist’s Approach Dwelling (Unsolicited Press; October 2025), “I begin with a cloth I like and I search for others. Generally it takes over a decade to seek out all the suitable…
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Reviewed by Sarah Evans “Younger youngsters suppose their households are the norm; as they transfer towards adolescence, they start to uncover the distinctions.” This line that Ren Cedar Fuller drops in the course of her essay “Let Us Sit on the Garden” aptly describes the journey she embarks upon all through her guide, Greater: Essays (Autumn…
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Reviewed by Leslie Lindsay TW: suicide Final night time, I dreamed I spoke to a ghost. She was dwelling in a field in my laundry room. I used to be pulling sheets from the washer to the dryer, and there, within the dreamworld of my life, a fully-formed lady emerged. “Why are you dwelling in…
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Reviewed by Marissa Gallerani When Merilyn Simonds and Beth Robinson began taking weekly walks amidst the COVID-19 lockdowns, it was not with the intention of making something. They have been merely seeking to take pleasure in one another’s firm safely throughout quarantine. The ensuing memoir, Strolling with Beth: Conversations with My 100 Yr Outdated Good…
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Reviewed by Dorothy Rice This third memoir from Jeannie Vanasco mines advanced, puzzling and all-too-common emotional terrain — a member of the family or cherished one who repeatedly resorts to “punitive silence” fairly than categorical uncomfortable emotions. It’s a very merciless and lonely type of punishment. The sufferer, the individual on the receiving finish, is…
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Reviewed by Emily Webber Michelle Herman’s memoir of private essays, If You Say So (Galileo Press; 2025), affords an insightful reflection on getting older, grief, and discovering sudden neighborhood later in life. The opening essays within the assortment concentrate on how Herman found a love of ballet in her sixties, the way it reworked her…
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Interviewed by Hillary Moses Mohaupt Jennifer Case is an environmental author, editor and artistic writing on the College of Central Arkansas, and he or she’s additionally a mom. In her e book, We Are Animals: On the Nature and Politics of Motherhood (Trinity College Press; 2024), Case explores the various ways in which moms may…
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Every single day, it began the identical approach. I logged on to Phrase. I noticed the request from AI: press this button and we’ll draft your give you the results you want with Copilot. I closed my pc, ran my hand by my hair, uncapped my pen and wrote. After I sit at my desk,…
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This week’s writing frenzy began with a single line — a line that wasn’t mine. I advised my good good friend, Quill, that visitors have been coming over, so he provided me a writing immediate to finish whereas I used to be ready for his or her arrival: Earlier than the doorbell rings and the…
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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)…