Tag: reviews
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Reviewed by Nan J. Bauer The maths is primary: Meals is life. Withholding it’s energy. It’s an equation we see each day to horrible impact within the present Palestinian and Sudanese genocides; what bombs and bullets don’t kill, hunger finishes, much less effectively and with higher cruelty. We don’t must look onerous to search out…
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Reviewed by Brian Watson Though I used to be disillusioned to be taught that I am not America’s beloved fruit, Priyanka Kumar’s hybrid memoir, The Gentle Between Apple Timber: Rediscovering the Wild By way of a Beloved American Fruit (Island Press; Sept. 2025), half botany and zoology, half ecology and local weather, and half loving portrait of the…
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Reviewed by Vicki Mayk As somebody who writes micro essays, I used to be desirous to overview Beth Ann Fennelly’s assortment of micro memoirs, The Irish Goodbye: Micro-Memoirs (W.W. Norton, February 2026). I appreciated her first e-book, Heating and Cooling. And now that I’ve learn the newest e-book by a author whose identify has develop into synonymous…
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Reviewed by Emily Webber With over 100 books printed, the Object Classes sequence from Bloomsbury Educational goals to uncover the “hidden lives of odd issues.” These slim paperbacks may be learn in a single or two sittings. They’re all fantastically designed. Books begging to be purchased in print, and delightfully entertaining and academic. An ideal approach…
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Reviewed by Sara Pisak On the time of writing (not publishing) this evaluation, it’s formally 206 days till Thursday, August 27, 2026, week zero of the faculty soccer season. If that day isn’t circled in your calendar, then possibly Soccer by Chuck Klosterman (Penguin Press; January 2026) isn’t for you. Or possibly it’s? Let me…
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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.”…