Tag: reviews
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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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Reviewed by Leslie Lindsay I’ve a portrait of my Appalachian great-grandmother on my desk. Her lengthy, graying hair is pulled again right into a bun. She wears glasses and a plaid blazer, additionally, a smirk. For years, I’ve puzzled what was behind that grin, tucked in these chiseled cheekbones, the identical ones that fashioned mine.…
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Reviewed by Layla Khoury-Hanold In Famished: On Meals, Intercourse, and Rising Up as a Good Woman (Eerdmans; December 2025), writer Anna Rollins tees up one of the crucial highly effective reader takeaways within the guide’s preface: “When ladies labored to heal from physique disgrace, their relationship to faith was intricately concerned.” Rollins blends private narrative with…
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Reviewed by Sarah Boon In The River’s Daughter: A Memoir (Spiegel & Grau; June 2025), Bridget Crocker was born right into a dysfunctional household. Her mom left her father when Bridget was 4 years previous, as he beat her in entrance of Bridget. Her mother moved on to construct a life with a quiet, first…
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Reviewed by Amy Roost Because the title of On the Nook of Previous and Future: A Assortment of Life Tales (Bison Books; October 2025) suggests, Pamela Joern’s three-part memoir in essays is anxious with intersections, particularly the intersections of time and place, reminiscence and fact, and life and artwork. The opening chapter, “On the lookout…
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Reviewed by Diane Gottlieb Fortunately, nobody has to journey far to search out books about grief, one of the crucial well-traversed matters in literature. There are numerous poetry collections, fiction and memoirs that heart grief, and self-help books about lack of family members—mother and father, spouses, kids. Books about dropping a pet might even be…
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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…