Book Reviews
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Deep Salt Water
Deep Salt Water is neither political nor didactic; rather, it is a text that transcends...
$20.00
Ordinary Skin: Essays from Willow Springs
Collectively, Auker’s essays and prose poems describe both the prying loose of norms that have...
$24.95I Liked You Better Before I Knew You So Well
Reading this work gives the reader an uncanny sensation that Hall is not just presenting...
$16.00
My Jewish Year: 18 Holidays, One Wondering Jew
Pogrebin’s journey is distinct and individual, yet one which mirrors the quest of many Jewish...
$15.00
The Girls in My Town
With humor and compassion, Morales vividly captures the quirky imagery of growing up in 1970s...
$16.45
Origins of the Universe and What It All Means
The main subject of the book is Firstman’s relationship with her father, Bruce Firstman, a...
$18.32
Fragments of a Mirror: Selected Essays
Full of deft humor and thoughtful introspection, Fragments of a Mirror offers up glittering shards...
$15.00
The Courtship of Eva Eldridge
After a period of bewilderment, Eva came to understand that Vick was a serial bigamist...
$19.95
A Woman on the Edge of Time
Gavron takes on an even higher challenge: to capture the life force of a mother...
$2.33
Hallow This Ground
Rafferty is no mere tour guide pointing out established stories; instead, he sifts the evidence...
$17.00
Catechism: A Love Story
Claiming one’s “hidden wholeness” is a life’s work, and this book demonstrates one person’s passionate...
$14.00
To Think of Her Writing Awash in Light
To Think of Her Writing Awash in Light then is partly a quest to find...
$18.00
Seeing Red
One evening in New York, Lina Meruane's body "seize[s] up" and leaves her "paralyzed, [her]...
$14.95
Resident Alien: On Border-crossing and the Undocumented Divine
Through his poetic practice, Ali argues for identifying chief concerns facing humanity and embracing the...
$32.95
The Inventors
To write a memoir is—on the surface—to undertake a contrasting examination of both the profound...
$18.95
White Matter: A Memoir of Family and Medicine
Janet Sternburg’s White Matter is a disquieting read. How could it not be? In it,...
$18.95
Good Girl
Tomlinson’s story tumbles forth with the rapid urgency of a young woman searching for meaning...
$16.00
Flock Together: A Love Affair with Extinct Birds
As a memoirist, and therefore a character in his own book, Hollars is appealingly capable...
$24.95
Changing the Subject
Birkerts writes particularly insightful essays about the multiple ways ongoing technological changes in our culture...
$16.00
Trace: Memory, History, Race, and the American Landscape
As Lauret Savoy traces her own life along with her parents' lives and attempts to...
$25
The Telling
There is a sense while reading that the simplicity of a rote recounting is exactly...
$14.00
Lingering Bilingualism
Brenner’s work . . . [illustrates] that Hebrew and Yiddish both played complex roles, and...
$29.95
Ladies Night at the Dreamland
The Dreamland is expansive, and you get the sense that Livingston would give every woman...
$24.95
A Solemn Pleasure: To Imagine, Witness, and Write
Her sense of writing exists on a lofty plain—far from self-serving thoughts or motivations. Of...
$16.95