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 […]
Reviewed by Sara Pisak It’s honest to say that after a fall on Boxing Day whereas in Rome, Hanif Kureishi felt his life and the lives of these round him […]
Reviewed by Elizabeth Austin Writing about dying youngsters is a near-impossible activity. The topic indicators, instantly, that this won’t be a straightforward learn, and that the terrain forward is steeped […]
Reviewed by Brian Watson Melissa Febos’ The Dry Season: A Memoir of Pleasure in a 12 months With out Intercourse appears to demand two totally different critiques. One for readers of […]
Reviewed by Carolyn Roy-Bornstein What many people find out about orphans has been formed largely round fiction. From the sketch Little Orphan Annie to the novel sequence The Boxcar Youngsters; from […]
Reviewed by Leslie Lindsay Twenty years in the past, in a Prairie-style group hospital in the course of a Minnesota cornfield, I gave start to my first daughter. Like Erica […]
Reviewed by Brian Watson Anthologies are an inherently dangerous enterprise. In What My Father and I Don’t Discuss About: 16 Writers Break the Silence (Simon & Schuster; Could 2025), editor […]
Reviewed by Elizabeth Austin In All the things is High quality, I’ll Simply Work Tougher: Confessions of a Former Badass (Road Noise Books, 2025), Cara Gormally delivers a quietly radical […]
Reviewed by Sarah Rosenthal I grew up in coastal southern Connecticut, doubtless not removed from the place the occasions of Amie Souza Reilly’s essay assortment, Human/Animal: A Bestiary in Essays, […]
Reviewed by Emily Webber Within the preface to Held Collectively: A Shared Memoir of Motherhood, Drugs, and Imperfect Love (HarperOne; 2025), creator Rebecca N. Thompson emphasizes that the ladies in […]