All posts tagged "memoir"
Sex
Book Review: Good in a Crisis by Margaret Overton
November 5, 2025By withholding nearly all the details of her marriage, upbringing, and formative relationships with men (and...
Biography
Book Review: Blue Nights by Joan Didion
September 23, 2025We learn that Quintana Roo was adopted, a beautiful precocious girl with hair “bleached by the...
Non-Fiction Reviews
Book Review: Cabin: Two Brothers, a Dream and Five Acres in Maine by Lou Ureneck
September 22, 2025In September 2007, Lou Ureneck, a 56-year-old journalism professor at Boston University, was hospitalized for atrial...
Writers
Book Review: Floating Worlds: The Letters of Edward Gorey and Peter F. Neumeyer
September 8, 2025Neumeyer responded with scholarly esprit, but he was hard put to equal his partner’s digressions. The...
Fiction Reviews
Stitches: A Memoir by David Small
April 6, 2025But, as we see in the terrifying drawings of his radiologist father giving him neck adjustments—“kkrraackk,”...
Biography
Book Review: The Book of My Lives by Aleksandar Hemon
August 27, 2024The title The Book of My Lives is apt: rather than presenting a seamless memoir, Hemon...
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