Tag: january-february 2026
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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 Emily Webber Once you choose up Molly Gaudry’s Match Into Me, A Novel: A Memoir (and also you most positively ought to), you’ll have sure expectations moving into identical to I did. Put together for them to be smashed in the easiest way doable. I anticipated it to be like Erika Stern’s genre-blending e book, Frontier,…
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REVIEW: Movement Dazzle: A Memoir of Motherhood, Loss, and Skating on Skinny Ice by Jocelyn Jane Cox
Reviewed by Emily Webber Jocelyn Jane Cox’s memoir, Movement Dazzle: A Memoir of Motherhood, Loss, and Skating (Vine Leaves Press; Sept. 2025), is a tribute to her mom, a love letter to her son, and a testomony to resilience as a caregiver. The memoir begins as Cox makes preparations for her son’s zebra-themed first birthday celebration.…
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Reviewed by Dorothy Rowena Rice Humble Pie: Sober Menopause, Sugar Dependancy, and the Sweetness of Restoration (Bloomsbury; Jan. 2026) is a memoir that’s by turns laugh-out-loud humorous, emotionally charged, and extremely relatable throughout a large spectrum of points and ages. A trifecta of themes present the story’s backbone. Because the title states, Bowman (the writer…
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Reviewed by Melissa Oliveira Early in Lights In Chilly Rooms: A Psychologist Displays on Household, Growing old, Love & Loss (CavanKerry Press; 2025), Joan Cusack Handler writes, “Incidents of despair quadrupled amongst growing old ladies through the COVID pandemic and quarantine isolation… Those that have been struggling have been left to face their demons alone.”…
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Reviewed by Rae Pagliarulo I began studying Chloe Caldwell’s Making an attempt (Graywolf Press; August 2025) after an extended summer time of inhaling novel after novel. I believe I burned out a little bit from true tales (blasphemy, I do know), so when Making an attempt greeted me from a shelf in my favourite bookshop,…
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Interviewed by Leslie Lindsay I’ve no heirlooms of my grandmother’s. Nothing even, of my mom’s. The one factor I’ve of my great-grandmother’s is a black and white photograph of a ruinous nation retailer that I took myself when visiting Kentucky and had blown up. It’s an odd dimension so I haven’t discovered a correct body.…
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Interviewed by Vicki Mayk I started following Kerry Neville on Fb greater than a decade in the past when she took a solo journey to Morocco, saying it was the beginning of her reclaimed life. Since then, her social media posts have allowed us to journey together with her to Georgia, the place she’s now…
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Interviewed by Morgan Baker Grief is common, but so particular person. Grief could make you’re feeling very alone, so once you discover a group, just like the one which editor and author Cindy Eastman created within the anthology Grief Like Yours: A Story Assortment of Life After Loss (Carpe Vitam Press; June 2025) you’re feeling…
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Interviewed by Jenny Bartoy Patchwork: A Sewist’s Diary (Tin Home; 2025) is Maddie Ballard’s debut memoir, a group of essays structured across the making of seventeen clothes. Exact, charming, and lyrical, the guide explores Ballard’s apply of the stitching craft from novice to maven, alongside the ups and downs of her twenty-something life. Ballard touches…