American Midnight
Adam Hochschild’s account of America’s long-ago “midnight” has much to tell us about the politics we have inherited in our own day.
Reviewed by Robert Zaller
Nonfiction Reviews
A Life of One’s Own: Nine Women Writers Begin Again
Joanna Biggs’s deeply felt connection to each of the writers she considers in this book revitalizes established literary lore, reframing each woman’s trajectory through personally resonant lenses of resurgence and rebirth.
Reviewed by Ellie Eberlee
I Need to Tell You
In a memoir that details moving from the solitude of shame to the loving acceptance of family, Cathryn Vogeley also offers an enlightening examination of secret adoptions. Reviewed by Sandra Eliason
Tuesdays in Jail
These reflections on teaching by novelist Tina Welling, which include non-judgmental sketches of her incarcerated students, make for a beautifully written memoir. Reviewed by George Longenecker
Watershed
Ranae Lenor Hanson offers a personal map against which readers might chart their own ways through the uneasy waters of the climate crisis. Reviewed by Elizabeth Bailey