memoir
The good news in John Green’s reviews of Diet Dr Pepper and sunsets
He says they’re memoirs, but I’m onto him. The Anthropocene Reviewed is more like a collection of sermons.
Lisa Donovan tells the stories behind the recipes
Our Lady of Perpetual Hunger exposes the misogyny within the restaurant industry.
Living a simplified life in France
Eric Freeze and his family moved to Nice—in order to spend less and live better.
Aimee Nezhukumatathil shows us the worlds she sees
The poet’s collection of essays is so vivid, we can smell, hear, taste, touch, and see her rapture.
Liz Tichenor’s life in the wake of her infant’s death
We are called to accompany the bodies we love from birth to death and beyond.
A body in pain navigates the world
Poet Molly McCully Brown’s memoir of life with cerebral palsy
The view from Rebekah Taussig’s wheelchair
Sitting Pretty showed me how much I have to learn about ableism.
The many voices of refugee experience
Kao Kalia Yang’s collective memoir conveys their diversity—and their singular humanity.
by Amy Frykholm
For Valarie Kaur, love is sweet labor
A memoir of an activist whose life is grounded in Sikh mysticism
Michael Cohen’s tell-all about Trump is mostly about himself
The moral lessons of his humiliation and imprisonment seem fairly limited.
When your partner loses faith
After Stina Kielsmeier-Cook’s husband became a none, she reached out to some neighborhood nuns.
Pregnancy is undeniably beautiful and bizarre
Both Agnes Howard and Brittany Bergman encourage reflection on a transformational experience.
Margaret Renkl’s stunning ability to see
It is hard to say what will enamor readers more, the bird calls or the familial ones.
A memoir of hardship and gratitude in Appalachia
Cassie Chambers tells family stories and considers the history of the people of Owsley County, Kentucky.
A city dweller follows the harvest
Marie Mutsuki Mockett’s spiritual and cultural pilgrimage through the heart of farm country
Notes from an organ transplant surgeon
Joshua Mezrich weaves professional insight with personal stories.
A lapsed Catholic’s unexpected devotion
Searching for the Mary statue from her childhood, Sonja Livingston found much more.
by Amy Frykholm
A former Jehovah’s Witness tells her story
Amber Scorah’s memoir has a breathless quality that makes it compulsively readable.
Why did Lyz Lenz’s church fail? Why do so many others?
The former church planter’s melancholy journey through the Midwest and its faith
The intersection between blackness and whiteness
Emily Bernard’s essays insist that no conversation is about race alone.