Tag: reviews
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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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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…
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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 had been shattered. Each typographically and metaphorically, the quilt of his memoir tells the reader as a lot with “hanif kureishi. shattered. a memoir” highlighted…
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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 in grief and concern and helplessness. And but, in As a result of I Knew You: How Some Outstanding Sick Children Healed a Physician’s Soul (Chehalem…
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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 memoirs and one for writers of memoirs. For the readers, let me start right here. I fell in love on the first sentence: “It’s raining.”…
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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 Annie the musical to after college TV specials like Get together of 5, the narrative arc of the American orphan is identical. Mother and father…