Memoir & Biography

What to Feel, How to Feel: Lyric Essays on Neurodivergence and Neurofatherhood

In the early 1940s, an anonymous patron commissioned Anaïs Nin and several of her literary chums to write erotica for a dollar a page. This man, who Nin referred to as The Collector, gave ... Read More »

June 18, 2025 | Filed under: Criticism & Essays, Health & Self-help, Memoir & Biography, Reviews

★ Muybridge

By Guy Delisle; Helge Dascher and Rob Aspinall (trans.)

In his new graphic biography, Muybridge, Quebec cartoonist Guy Delisle delivers a portrait of an unusual man’s very unusual life. Though he never became a household name like his contemporary Thomas Edison (who also ... Read More »

April 30, 2025 | Filed under: Art, Music & Pop Culture, Graphica, History, Memoir & Biography, Reviews

The Mother: A Graphic Memoir

By Rachel Deutsch

Rachel Deutsch had always wanted a baby, and she had a pragmatic approach to having one – find a partner, improve herself, and become a mother before she got “old.” Although seemingly simple, her new ... Read More »

February 26, 2025 | Filed under: Memoir & Biography, Reviews

Playing Hard: A Life and Death in Games, Sports, and Play

By Peter Unwin

During his final days, Peter Unwin’s father talked a great deal about sports. Through an oxygen mask, one eye blind from a stroke, he told stories about “the buffoonery of men, brave but foolish men ... Read More »

January 29, 2025 | Filed under: Memoir & Biography, Reviews, Sports, Health & Self-help

How to Share an Egg: A True Story of Hunger, Love, and Plenty

By Bonny Reichert

“We are starving.” It’s a striking turn of phrase to begin a memoir about food and family and survival from Nazi death camps for what is a simple lament about a late lunch during a ... Read More »

January 22, 2025 | Filed under: Food & Drink, Memoir & Biography

I Don’t Do Disability and Other Lies I’ve Told Myself

By Adelle Purdham

The lifelong process of learning, of constantly weaving the tapestry of who you are and who you will be, is never without its challenges. That being said, it’s often easier than the process of unlearning ... Read More »

November 27, 2024 | Filed under: Memoir & Biography, Reviews

★ No Credit River

By Zoe Whittall

When I begin reading Zoe Whittall’s No Credit River, I am on a train. I usually read on the train. As I lean in to highlight certain lines – the pages rest on the foldable ... Read More »

November 6, 2024 | Filed under: Memoir & Biography, Poetry, Reviews

Hope Is a Woman’s Name: My Journey as a Bedouin Palestinian Activist in Israel

By Amal Elsana Alh’jooj

Hope can be a woman’s name, and it can also be a motivating force. For Amal Elsana Alh’jooj, hope was bestowed upon her at birth when her father decided to call her Amal, which means ... Read More »

October 2, 2024 | Filed under: Memoir & Biography, Race & Ethnic Relations, Reviews

When the Pine Needles Fall: Indigenous Acts of Resistance

By Katsi’tsakwas Ellen Gabriel; with Sean Carleton

The summer of 1990 was bookended by one of the most dramatic events in Canadian history. Thousands of paramilitary Quebec police and Canadian Armed Forces laid siege to the unceded territories of Kanehsatà:ke and Kahnawà:ke, ... Read More »

September 25, 2024 | Filed under: History, Indigenous Peoples, Memoir & Biography, Race & Ethnic Relations, Reviews

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