Tag: issues
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Reviewed by Sara Pisak Paul Lisicky’s Tune So Wild and Blue: A Life with the Music of Joni Mitchell permits his life and the music, life, and writing of Joni Mitchell sing in concord. Equal components memoir and Mitchell biography, Lisicky makes use of the folks legend’s music writing and private struggles to assist himself and…
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Reviewed by Marissa Gallerani Although organized religions would possibly take into account their doctrines static and absolute, Queer Devotion: Spirituality Behind the Binary in Delusion, Story and Apply (Hay Home; 2025) by Charlie Claire Burgess challenges this notion by analyzing historic portrayals of main non secular figures that depict them as queer. The guide contains…
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Reviewed by Angela L. Eckhart What was imagined to be a traditional enjoyable summer season Sunday afternoon at a buddies’ pool turned out to turn into a significant defining second for Mary Alice Stephens. After a number of glasses of wine poolside, Stephens noticed her toddler within the pool hugging a floating noodle and “motoring…
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Reviewed by Nan Bauer I’ve a rule relating to biographies: Don’t instantly flip to the photograph properly. If I head there very first thing, it’s simply a stranger’s album with well mannered curiosity. The photographs come to life after I examine them in context of their place within the biography. Properly, that is the biography…
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Reviewed by Marissa Gallerani When Mallary Tenore Tarpley was 11, her mom died of breast most cancers. Whereas it was not the only issue, this loss was a serious contributor to the event of an consuming dysfunction that finally required in affected person therapy and hospitalization. Slip: Life within the Center of Consuming Dysfunction Restoration…
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Reviewed by Melissa Oliviera When the lyric essay first confirmed up on my radar a number of years in the past, my early studying concerned The Subsequent American Essay sequence in addition to a handful of great magazines together with this one, Brevity, The Seneca Evaluation, River Enamel’s “Stunning Issues,” and others. Typically, earlier than anthologies…
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Reviewed by Brian Watson No Offense: A Memoir in Essays, by Jackie Domenus (ELJ Editions; February 2025) is the kind of memoir I believed had gone out of fashion — and had been informed as a lot by a literary agent who shall stay anonymous. No Offense is a coming-out memoir that particulars the numerous twists…
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Reviewed by Amy Goldmacher “Oh my god, right here it’s: it’s coming for me.” In Physique: My Life in Elements (Vine Leaves Press; Could 2025), Nina B.Lichtenstein reckons with center age, menopause, and the uncertainty of well being and wellness on this part of life. On a middle-of-the-night rest room run, Lichtenstein experiences a sudden and…
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A few years in the past, in an grownup writing workshop, the trainer requested us to profile a father or mother. On the time, I used to be struggling in my relationship with my father so he got here instantly to thoughts. I started with, “My father is the tallest of two sons born and…
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There’s a well-worn trope within the literary world that publishing a e-book is an act of creation analogous to producing a human life. Authors consult with their “e-book infants,” announce due dates, have a good time publication birthdays, enlist e-book doulas. “It’s your child!” I’ve been informed of my forthcoming debut. “It should really feel…