Tag: reviews
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Reviewed by Dorothy Rice This third memoir from Jeannie Vanasco mines advanced, puzzling and all-too-common emotional terrain — a member of the family or cherished one who repeatedly resorts to “punitive silence” fairly than categorical uncomfortable emotions. It’s a very merciless and lonely type of punishment. The sufferer, the individual on the receiving finish, is…
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Reviewed by Emily Webber Michelle Herman’s memoir of private essays, If You Say So (Galileo Press; 2025), affords an insightful reflection on getting older, grief, and discovering sudden neighborhood later in life. The opening essays within the assortment concentrate on how Herman found a love of ballet in her sixties, the way it reworked her…
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Interviewed by Hillary Moses Mohaupt Jennifer Case is an environmental author, editor and artistic writing on the College of Central Arkansas, and he or she’s additionally a mom. In her e book, We Are Animals: On the Nature and Politics of Motherhood (Trinity College Press; 2024), Case explores the various ways in which moms may…
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Reviewed by Elizabeth Austin There are books you learn, after which there are books that learn you: books that attain into your coronary heart and extract experiences you thought have been yours alone, holding them as much as the sunshine so you may see them clearly. Betsy Cornwell’s (Avid Reader Press/Simon & Schuster; September 2025)…
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Reviewed by Anri Wheeler To learn The Tilling (Seneca Overview Books; December 2024) by Matthew Morris is to go together with the narrator on a journey of self-discovery. Winner of the 2024 Deborah Tall Lyric Essay E-book Prize, the gathering of ten essays places Morris’ reckoning together with his racial id in dialog with well-known…
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Reviewed by Kristy Wessel All of the Solution to the River: Love, Loss, and Liberation (Riverhead Books, September 2025) is a uncooked, susceptible memoir that dives deep into Elizabeth Gilbert’s private reckoning with habit, grief, and religious transformation. Recognized for Eat, Pray, Love, Gilbert returns not in a part of enlargement or pleasure — however in…
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REVIEW: The Lab: Experiments in Writing Throughout Style by Matthew Clark Davison and Alice LaPlante
Reviewed by Leslie Lindsay I’m obsessed. I can’t cease interested by my great-grandmother, a lady I by no means knew. She was previous and demented once I was born. Perhaps I’ve a reminiscence of being at her deathbed? Perhaps I insinuated myself into {a photograph}? Perhaps I solely assume I knew her from tales? That’s…
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Reviewed by Sara Pisak Paul Lisicky’s Tune So Wild and Blue: A Life with the Music of Joni Mitchell permits his life and the music, life, and writing of Joni Mitchell sing in concord. Equal components memoir and Mitchell biography, Lisicky makes use of the folks legend’s music writing and private struggles to assist himself and…
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Reviewed by Marissa Gallerani Although organized religions would possibly take into account their doctrines static and absolute, Queer Devotion: Spirituality Behind the Binary in Delusion, Story and Apply (Hay Home; 2025) by Charlie Claire Burgess challenges this notion by analyzing historic portrayals of main non secular figures that depict them as queer. The guide contains…
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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…