Tag: july-august 2025
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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…
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A few years in the past, in an grownup writing workshop, the trainer requested us to profile a mother or father. 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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Reviewed by Dorothy Rice The Boat Not Taken: A North Korean Daughter and Her Mom’s Story (Betty; Might 2025) by Joanna Choi Kalbus is among the first titles from WTAW Press’ (a 501(c)(3) nonprofit) new imprint, Betty, established by director and editor-in-chief Peg Alford Pursell particularly for books by ladies, with the purpose of showcasing…