Book Reviews
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Spirography: A Memoir of Family, Loss, and Finding Home
A spirograph is a tool that enables users to produce drawings of tight, interlocking spirals...
$22.99
Selected Misdemeanors: Essays at the Mercy of the Reader
The power of an essay collection is often in how each piece uncovers a small...
$21.95
Foreign Fruit: A Personal History of the Orange
Early in Foreign Fruit: A Personal History of the Orange, Katie Goh describes a fanciful...
$27.99
No Less Strange or Wonderful: Essays in Curiosity
What first caught my eye about A. Kendra Greene’s No Less Strange or Wonderful: Essays...
$28.95
Landed: A yogi’s memoir in pieces and poses
Jennifer Lang’s Landed: A yogi’s memoir in pieces and poses looks at the struggle of...
$17.99
Women Surrounded by Water
When I was considering American University’s MFA program, it was then-student Patricia Coral who convinced...
$19.95
High Priestess of the Apocalypse: A Memoir of Disobedience
Christy Tending’s High Priestess of the Apocalypse: A Memoir of Disobedience brings together thirty-nine short...
$18
Final Engagement
Don’t read Christopher Izant’s memoir if you’re looking for answers. The author served as a...
$29.99
The Body Alone
In The Body Alone, Nina Lohman doesn’t shrink from the conundrum inherent in writing a...
$24
Prairie, Dresses, Art, Other
“Ostensibly I write novels and stories,” Danielle Dutton writes at the start of “A Picture...
$17.95
Interrogating Travel
To read Paul Lindholdt’s Interrogating Travel is to receive a wellspring of lived experience about...
$29.95
A Calendar Is a Snakeskin
Kristine Langley Mahler, a married, thirty-eight year old mother of daughters, has reached a point...
$16
Love in the Archives
Losing a child. As you read those words, do you have a visceral reaction? A...
$18.29
Half-Life of a Secret: Reckoning with a Hidden History
Emily Strasser’s Half-Life of a Secret: Reckoning with a Hidden History is a book for...
$26.95
Journey to the End of the Empire
In 2004 I hitchhiked illegally into western Tibet, passing myself off as an Uyghur who...
$17.99
All Else Failed: The Unlikely Volunteers at the Heart of the Migrant Aid Crisis
The Greeks have a word for the desire to help people in need, explains Dana...
$19.99
Western Journeys
Teow Lim Goh’s Western Journeys delves into the heart of what it means to be...
$21.95
East Winds: A Global Quest to Reckon with Marriage
In East Winds: A Global Quest to Reckon with Marriage, Rachel Rueckert details her nearly...
$12.95
Lessons and Carols: A Meditation on Recovery
John West begins his lyrical and carefully structured memoir, Lessons and Carols: A Meditation on Recovery,...
$25
The Hyacinth Girl: T.S. Eliot’s Hidden Muse
When I was studying poetry at New York University in the 1990s, my friends and...
$19.95
A Line in the World: A Year on the North Sea Coast
We all have our own lines in the world: A circuitous route that marches us...
$16
The Poetics of Wrongness
In this book of essays, Rachel Zucker acknowledges that being heterosexual and white confer privilege...
$20
The Naked Don’t Fear the Water
“I was an Afghan named Habib,” writes Matthieu Aikins in The Naked Don’t Fear the...
$18.99