REALLY THE BLUES, a memoir by Mezz Mezzrow and Bernard Wolfe, reviewed by Beth Johnston
Category nonfiction reviews
HARBORS, essays by Donald Quist, reviewed by Benjamin Woodard
RITTENHOUSE WRITERS: Reflections on a Fiction Workshop by James Rahn reviewed by Jacqueline Kharouf
The Cretan Runner by George Psychoundakis and The Cowshed by Ji Xianlin, two memoirs reviewed by Beth Johnston
OSTEND, nonfiction by Volker Weidermann, reviewed by Michelle Fost
IN OTHER WORDS, essays by Jhumpa Lahiri, reviewed by Michelle Fost
ABDUCTING A GENERAL, a memoir by Patrick Leigh Fermor, reviewed by Rory McCluckie
CAT IS ART SPELLED WRONG reviewed by Justin Goodman
TALK by Linda Rosenkrantz reviewed by Rory McCluckie
PUNK ELEGIES by Allan MacDonell and DADDY Madison Young reviewed by Johnny Payne
FAR COUNTRY: STORIES FROM ABROAD AND OTHER PLACES, essays by Timothy Kenny reviewed by Beth Johnston
THE ARGONAUTS by Maggie Nelson reviewed by Gabriel Chazan
THE ART OF ASKING by Amanda Palmer reviewed by Justin Goodman
33 DAYS by Léon Werth reviewed by Nathaniel Popkin
UNDOING THE DEMOS: Neoliberalism’s Stealth Revolution by Wendy Brown reviewed by Irami Osei-Frimpong
THE GREAT FLOODGATES OF THE WONDERWORLD by Justin Hocking reviewed by Ana Schwartz
THE UNSPEAKABLE: AND OTHER SUBJECTS OF DISCUSSION by Meghan Daum reviewed by Jamie Fisher
HOW AMERICANS MAKE RACE by Clarissa Rile Hayward reviewed by Irami Osei-Frimpong
THE OPPOSITE OF LONELINESS by Marina Keegan reviewed by Colleen Davis
A QUESTION OF TRADITION: WOMEN POETS IN YIDDISH by Kathryn Hellerstein reviewed by Alyssa Quint
THE DEEP ZOO by Rikki Ducornet reviewed by Kim Steele
ON THE ABOLITION OF ALL POLITICAL PARTIES by Simone Weil, translated by Simon Leys reviewed by Ana Schwartz
Bolaño: A BIOGRAPHY IN CONVERSATIONS by Mónica Maristain reviewed by Ana Schwartz
MY LIFE AS A FOREIGN COUNTRY: A MEMOIR by Brian Turner reviewed by Jamie Fisher
BALTHUS: A BIOGRAPHY by Nicholas Fox Weber reviewed by Gabriel Chazan
MY STRUGGLE: BOOK THREE: BOYHOOD by Karl Ove Knausgaard translated by Dan Bartlett reviewed by Ana Schwartz
OUTSIDE THE BOX: INTERVIEWS WITH CONTEMPORARY CARTOONISTS by Hillary L. Chute reviewed by Seamus O’Malley
FLYOVER LIVES: A MEMOIR by Diane Johnson reviewed by Colleen Davis
The New York Nobody Knows by William Helmreich and Baghdad: The City in Verse edited by Reuven Snir reviewed by Nathaniel Popkin
MERMAID: A Memoir of Resilience by Eileen Cronin reviewed by Colleen Davis
THE GEOGRAPHY OF MEMORY: A PILGRIMAGE THROUGH ALZHEIMER’S by Jeanne Murray Walker Reviewed by Elizabeth Mosier
THE FARAWAY NEARBY by Rebecca Solnit reviewed by Colleen Davis
ON GHOSTS by Elizabeth Robinson reviewed by Vanessa Martini
HANDLING THE TRUTH: ON THE WRITING OF MEMOIR by Beth Kephart reviewed by Stephanie Trott
SO LONG, SILVER SCREEN by Blutch reviewed by Gabriel Chazan
DAVID LYNCH SWERVES by Martha P. Nochimson reviewed by Chris Ludovici
