Book Reviews
New reading recommendations from Colorado Review
A Harp in the Stars
The term “lyric essay” has been with us for nearly thirty years, and while it...
$24.95
Farm Girl: a Memoir
Megan Baxter’s Farm Girl is more than a memoir of a woman working on a...
$19.95
Dear Memory: Letters on Writing, Silence, and Grief
Following the multiple-award-winning success of Obit, Victoria Chang’s Dear Memory: Letters on Writing, Silence, and...
$25
Windswept: Walking the Paths of Trailblazing Women
Women have always walked. Walking is in our “molecular memories,” Annabel Abbs insists in her...
$26.95
These Fevered Days: Ten Pivotal Moments in the Making of Emily Dickinson
Emily Dickinson wrote that “biography first convinces us of the fleeing of the Biographed.” And,...
$16.95
Names for Light: A Family History
If you can get past the knot of generational descriptors, geographical locations, and time periods,...
$16
Graceland, At Last: Notes on Hope and Heartache from the American South
In Graceland, At Last, Margaret Renkl makes the stereotypes of her native country her business....
$26
The Memory Eaters
Central to Elizabeth Kadetsky’s stellar collection of essays about the nature of memory and grief,...
$19.95
The Natural Mother of the Child: A Memoir of Nonbinary Parenthood
When Krys Malcolm Belc became pregnant with a son, he began to see his identity—not...
$26
World of Wonders: In Praise of Fireflies, Whale Sharks, and Other Astonishments
Aimee Nezhukumatathil’s first essay collection, World of Wonders: In Praise of Fireflies, Whale Sharks, and...
$25
Get Thee to a Bakery
Get Thee to a Bakery opens with the title essay, in which Rick Bailey recounts...
$19.95
Shook: An Earthquake, a Legendary Mountain Guide, and Everest’s Deadliest Day
With a title like Shook and a subtitle that includes both the words earthquake and...
$19.95
Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge and the Teachings of Plants
Braiding Sweetgrass is a call to action that combines memoir, Indigenous storytelling, and scientific writing....
$18.00
Queenzenglish.mp3: poetry | philosophy | performativity
As we share the same codified language predilections, we share the same thoughts and perceptions....
$20.00
Sky Songs: Meditations on Loving a Broken World
It is this kind of brokenness that Sinor seems to be talking about: not a...
$19.95
Mobile Home: A Memoir in Essays
Her family relocates to a double-wide trailer in Saudi Arabia, a Kensington flat in an...
$22.95
The Best of Brevity: Twenty Groundbreaking Years of Flash Nonfiction
The Best of Brevity is a collection of playdough lumps, each squeezed by a different...
$16.95
American Harvest: God, Country, and Farming in the Heartland
Farmers are few, and their work is extremely intricate, risky, and arduous....
$28.00
A Boy Named Courage: A Surgeon’s Memoir of Apartheid
Himmet Dajee begins his autobiographical tale in his youth, which is split between Cape Town,...
$25
To Limn / Lying In
At once raw and erudite, this slender book of essays packs a profound wallop. I...
$18.00
Rust: A Memoir of Steel and Grit
Goldbach’s conservative childhood was mine, and even if it's not yours, it provides a lesson...
$14.99
The Blessing
Instead, he writes, “my beginning of trauma and violence led me on to a lifetime...
$15.00
Try to Get Lost
Frank pays affecting tribute to the lives of her mother and sister, both now gone,...
$19.95
50 Miles
It’s lyrical, textured, natural, and unexpected. While the form these essays take are varied in...
$17.00