Today’s review is about GET IT OUT by Andréa Becker. This nonfiction book examines the hysterectomy through an inclusive and intersectional lens. Author: Andréa BeckerSeries: NoneAge Category: AdultPublisher: New York University PressPublish Date: July 15, 2025Print Length: 208 Want to support local bookstores? Buy a copy of Get It Out on Bookshop.org!* *These are not affiliate links and I do not make a commission from any purchase made using these links. Get It Out Synopsis Get It Out...| A Literary Escape
A British war correspondent recalls his experiences during the Great War.| Standard Ebooks - Newest Ebooks
The bedbug bite is unlike any insect bite I’ve experienced before. You’re covered in these welts, and the cumulative effect of their itching is the inability to concentrate on anything other than that sensation. If horror is about extremity, then this story is about extremity of sensation.| Nightmare MagazineRSS - Nightmare Magazine
Author Andrea Wang’s latest book is beautiful in text and art, and at the same time heartbreaking and inspiring. The path to the heart of WORTHY: THE BRAVE AND CAPABLE LIFE OF JOSEPH PIERCE s…| Beth Anderson, Children's Writer
Welcome to Issue #152 of Nightmare Magazine! And if you’re a subscriber reading this on release day, then happy May Day---a day where many cultures in the Northern Hemisphere celebrate the high point of spring, a day of fertility and growth.| Nightmare Magazine
Adam-Troy Castro recommends a movie and two new books. Find out what he's excited about!| Nightmare MagazineRSS - Nightmare Magazine
A Meditation on the Witch The witch is a shapeshifter, a marvelous creature who evolves with the times. Those who fear her have burned her at the stake, hung her body from the gallows, and drowned her in the sea—none of which were able to properly kill her because the witch is more than a […]| Nightmare MagazineRSS - Nightmare Magazine
Growing up in a small town in southern West Virginia, I’d always heard that a man wasn’t supposed to show his feelings. I mean, think about it, the Mountain State in those days was where generations of males put on hard hats, work boots, and brave faces before heading into the bowels of the earth to mine coal.| Nightmare MagazineRSS - Nightmare Magazine
I think this is a story about thinking too much. Stop thinking and you become less human, more like an animal; that involves scars, and predators, and living outdoors, and for certain animals it sometimes involves eating garbage.| Nightmare Magazine
To celebrate the publication of Beacons In The Darkness, we’ve polled Agate staff for some of their favorite memories involving their local newspapers. David Schlesinger, Publishing Director Hometown: Portland, Oregon... READ MORE The post Community Newspaper Memories appeared first on Agate Publishing.| Agate Publishing
Ramsey Lewis died yesterday. He was a Chicago son and unsurprisingly generous enough to write a foreword for our book Strayhorn: An Illustrated Life. Join us here at Agate in celebrating... READ MORE The post RIP jazz pianist and Agate contributor Ramsey Lewis appeared first on Agate Publishing.| Agate Publishing
America’s Most Gothic: Haunted History Stranger Than Fiction by Leanna Renee Hieber My rating: 1 of 5 stars I knew this wasn’t working for me about two chapters in, but I stubbornly stuck with it just to confirm that I’m not the right reader for this book. Sometimes perseverance doesn’t pay off. In the interest … Continue reading “America’s Most Gothic” by Leanna Renee Hieber and Andrea Janes| books are life
I had the strangest dream last night. I was running through a Beauty and the Beast-esque castle while being chased by a cartoon policeman. A life-long lucid dreamer, I immediately knew this was a dream, not because the law was on my heels in a Disney-inspired castle, but because I was too tall—a miraculous six feet—and also deaf. I was carrying a small grey backpack with a frozen baby inside it. Despite being rock solid in its frozen cage, the baby was somehow alive. My mission was to tak...| Defenestration
Like many of the American musicians who helped create rock ‘n’ roll in the 1950s, The Everly Brothers were instantly influential, popular almost from the beginning of their careers, and doomed to be misunderstood in the light of 1960s rock. Their country-rock synthesis was partly a product of the technological and songwriting capacities of Nashville,… The post Musical Pioneers first appeared on Chapter 16.| Chapter 16
There’s a scene in Amanda Uhle’s new memoir, Destroy This House, where the pre-adolescent narrator is navigating a pile of near-empty shampoo bottles and a moldy loofah in the family’s only shower. They’ve just moved from a house with six and a half baths in another city, and her hoarder mom refuses to toss bottles… The post An Uncommon Childhood first appeared on Chapter 16.| Chapter 16
"Ghosted" by Alice Vernon investigates 200 years of ghost hunting and our enduring quest for the paranormal.| The Longest Chapter
Elements of freedom—and struggles for it—are at play among the three finalists named by the Cundill History Prize in Montreal. The post Canada’s $75,000 Cundill Prize names Its 2025 Finalists appeared first on Publishing Perspectives.| Publishing Perspectives
Derek Thompson and Ezra Klein's influential 'Abundance' makes the FT/Schroders shortlist, as does Eva Dou's 'House of Huawei.'| Publishing Perspectives
It was 98 degrees with 90% humidity, and my thighs were sweating through a beige knee-length pencil skirt. He had to choose yesterday to kill himself, in the middle of summer, during a pandemic. It felt like a final fuck you. One last gag from a man who’d always had a dark sense of timing. […]| Reckon Review
I wrote the bulk of the first draft while I was on a cruise ship and experiencing the deep ennui that comes from being on a cruise ship. So that’s intrinsically buried deep in the DNA of this narrative in many mysterious and arcane ways. The second piece of inspiration is that a couple of years ago, on social media, I had seen an image of a mermaid in a bathtub with a bunch of tally marks written on the wall, and that painting really struck me. It’s always fun to take things seriously, an...| Lightspeed MagazineRSS - Lightspeed Magazine
If you immediately understand this phrase, and you get it on an emotional level, then these stories will probably speak to you in ways that they might not otherwise.| Lightspeed MagazineRSS - Lightspeed Magazine
I wrote “The Girlfriend Experience” while attending Clarion West last year. I masochistically put my hand up for Monday critiques, so it was one of the stories in our very first day of workshops. In retrospect, it might’ve been a subconscious litmus test to find out which of my classmates were prudes. (As it turns out, none of them; Clarion West Class of 2024 is wall-to-wall perverts, and I could not be happier.)| Lightspeed MagazineRSS - Lightspeed Magazine
The Courage to be Disliked (Kirawa reru yūki, 2013) by Ichiro Kishimi and Fumitake Koga. Allen & Unwin, 2018. On the outskirts of the thousand-year-old city lived a philosopher who taught that the world was simple and happiness was within the reach of every man, instantly. A young man who was dissatisfied with life went … Continue reading How to become happy| Calmgrove Books
ELI RODRIGUEZ FIELDER The gods must have been giant children squeezing drip sandcastles from their palms, back when this land was at the edge of a sea. This used to be a mouth, I say. It feels impossible that this peculiar landscape should suddenly emerge among farms and Dairy Queens.| The Common
Sometimes a title just does it for you. A Libertarian Walks into a Bear – as a title – makes me smile every time. Make of that what you will. Its author’s writing style is also sly and occasionally funny which works to balance out the serious nature of a lot of what is being […]| faintingviolet
Notes from an Island, by Tove Jansson and Tuulikki Pietilä (Illustrator) Anteckningar från en ö was first published in 1996. Translated from the Swedish by Thomas Teal in 2021. I read it in the Tin…| Words And Peace
Still looking for something to satisfy a challenge category? Perhaps something from this selection of new nonfiction titles will pique your interest and motivate you to complete your challenge! {Click on the cover to read more at Goodreads} HISTORY BIOGRAPHY/ MEMOIR HOW-TO TRUE CRIME SCIENCE GARDEN HEALTH FOOD MYTH, LEGEND AND FOLKLORE TRAVEL ISLANDS PUBLISHED … Continue reading 2025 Nonfiction Reader Challenge: More Inspiration| Book’d Out
I had a dream about my son, S, a few days after he was born not breathing. I was in the bathroom and his brain was a monster and it was dying. Or it was being eaten by a monster and dying. I never …| Rejection Letters
Has tenido un aborto. You’ve had an abortion. This observation is from Fernando, my acupuncturist in Málaga, Spain where I live now, where I’ve turned over a new life. Not that my old life was depraved or corrupt. No, it was perfectly ordinary, including the abortion part. Fernando delivers his observation after looking at my […] The post Ordinary first appeared on Hypertext Magazine.| Hypertext Magazine
There were four pills, chalky white and hexagonal in shape. I held them in the palm of my hand, examining them. It was their shape that felt like the final indignity—why would the manufacturers of a medication that has to be inserted vaginally design it to have six sharp edges? This was my fourth pregnancy, […] The post April, 2020 first appeared on Hypertext Magazine.| Hypertext Magazine
Where are you when the Supreme Court overturns Roe v. Wade? I am at the Planned Parenthood clinic in Washington, DC, nearest the Supreme Court. My job is to help keep the sidewalk clear for people to walk into the clinic, which promises “Care no matter what.” My partner and I wear orange tunics identifying […] The post I Stand Here Sweeping first appeared on Hypertext Magazine.| Hypertext Magazine
(Of the sort that’s painful to live through but, in retrospect, carries a hint of pleasure.) Evenings, I made a cup of tea and poured milk into a shallow bowl for the cat, then carried both outside to the picnic table. The cat and I sat together, drinking and watching as orange and lavender streaks […] The post Autobiography of Conviction (In Seven Stages) first appeared on Hypertext Magazine.| Hypertext Magazine
The boy in red is on top. The boy underneath him, in blue, struggles, lifting and turning them both. They flip and flip again, locked together. Now the red boy is again on top, his arms and legs churning tirelessly, as if trying to row a boat across the mat. At the referee’s whistle the […] The post Looking for a Hold first appeared on Hypertext Magazine.| Hypertext Magazine
I zigzagged through Long Beach to avoid stoplights, tapping my fingers against the steering wheel one at a time, counting the weeks since my missed period, trying to force a new calculation, a more tractable measurement of time. Who had decided a week was seven days? A month, twenty-eight, or -nine, thirty, thirty-one? Time seemed […] The post Intractability first appeared on Hypertext Magazine.| Hypertext Magazine
Today’s review is about SAME by Hannah Rosenberg. It’s a collection of poetry about friendships, girlhood, and motherhood. Author: Hannah RosenbergSeries: NoneAge Category: AdultPublisher: St. Martin’s GriffinPublish Date: October 21, 2025Print Length: 240 Want to support local bookstores? Buy a copy of Same on Bookshop.org!* *These are not affiliate links and I do not make a commission from any purchase made using these links. Same Synopsis Same Review I received a free, digital, ad...| A Literary Escape
By Samantha Kolber “Unknowability is a fundamental experience in the world.” –M.T. Anderson This is the story of my father,...| LIBRE
Here’s another fantastic book from one of the Kid Lit for Growing Minds members! In this post for educators and librarians, author Lisa Rogers, a former library teacher, shares how WOODY’S WORDS: WOODROW WILSON RAWLS AND WHERE THE RED FERN GROWS can be used as a springboard for students to practice a growth mindset. GIVEAWAY! … More Especially for Educators: “Who Helps You Shine? Embracing a Growth Mindset to Reach Your Dreams” by Lisa Rogers| Beth Anderson, Children's Writer
It’s quite amazing when you find primary sources that provide the seed, or acorn, that allows you to tell a story that for a while seemed lifeless. Check out this great post from debut author…| Beth Anderson, Children's Writer
I was so happy when I got a copy of this book. I learned about it from the author and booktuber Jen Campbell a few years ago and was able to get myself a copy shortly after. GENRE Nonfiction — memo…| Zezee With Books
Inherent in saving face, there’s a backdrop of protectionism. A fear of losing your community, in losing everything. There’s pressure to be fastidious and appear too powerful to mess with. Many families, mine included, have a history of keeping their heads on a swivel to survive war.| Nightmare MagazineRSS - Nightmare Magazine
There’s a Bugs Bunny cartoon from 1954 called “Baby Buggy Bugs.” Maybe you’ve seen it? It’s the one with the extremely short bank robber who disguises himself as a baby and tricks Bugs into taking care of him while he searches for his lost loot.| Nightmare MagazineRSS - Nightmare Magazine
If there’s one thing I learned this summer, it’s that we need each other more than ever. There are so many terrible things happening, and there’s no way we can survive all of them without a helping hand. We must invest our time and our energy into our relationships.| Nightmare MagazineRSS - Nightmare Magazine
The thing that got me excited to write this story is the jaded and familiar voice of Bangkok taxi drivers. They’re my biggest driver, literally. Taxis decorated for spiritual protection aren’t such an uncommon sight either. This voice became irresistible when I was playing Cyberpunk 2077.| Nightmare MagazineRSS - Nightmare Magazine
Things Become Other Things: A Walking Memoir by Craig Mod My rating: 3 of 5 stars I thought I liked walking, but compared to Craig Mod I might as well be a sedentary sedimentary rock. Mod takes it to new heights, putting dozens of kilometers per day walking a Japanese peninsula, walking with passion and … Continue reading “Things Become Other Things: A Walking Memoir” by Craig Mod| books are life
Sometimes, on the verge of a depressive episode, I go online and look at the Arby’s menu as a way to ground myself. It’s a unique methodology of acknowledging the past, the 5 for $5 deal exemplifying just how distant my childhood has become, while also challenging myself to relinquish control by embracing the inherent uncertainty that tomorrow guarantees: Arby’s has introduced Steak Nuggets.| Defenestration
The title of this post shows that I haven’t kept up-to-date in reviewing the books I have read this year! The three books in this post are by traditionally published authors. Two are fiction and th…| Sue's Trifles
Tom Piazza’s poignant book about the late singer-songwriter John Prine is full of colorful anecdotes about the time the two spent together — a painfully short interlude of friendship that ended abruptly with Prine’s death from Covid in the spring of 2020. Recalling one of their many late-night talk and jam sessions, Piazza remembers: The… The post Friendship and Loss first appeared on Chapter 16.| Chapter 16
John McPhee Truly astonishing that it took me this long to read this book; it’s thoroughly right up my alley.1 To start with, it’s McPhee, and he’s my favorite nonfiction author. And after that, it’s about nuclear weapons, nuclear power, and proliferation… with a solid digression into nuclear rocketry, which has long been an interest of mine.2 Nothing in the rocketry section was new to me—I’ve read up enough on that to the point that everything was familiar, although the persona...| Grey Patterson
Explore new books by Joan Silber and Kiran Desai, along with other notable recent releases in this literary roundup.| The Longest Chapter
All animals have blood hearts Omnia animalia sanguine* corda All animals have blood in their hearts Sanguine is no longer meaty. We have squeezed out the blood. Lobbed off ventricles and arteries to leave just an outline <3 Our animal hearts once bloody / bloodthirsty now tamed to optimism. * Sanguine, adjective 1: marked by eager hopefulness : confidently optimistic 2: bloodred...| Brevity: A Journal of Concise Literary Nonfiction
One morning, as we ate sandwiches—mine had apples on it—a hawk appeared outside the hospital cafeteria window. Or no, it was not a cafeteria, it was a cafe. Which was meant, perhaps, to conjure a sense of normalcy. You could order paninis and mochas and bowls of soup. My husband and I sat there talking over our sandwiches, about what I can’t recall. The words are lost to me now, and yet it feels like only yesterday. When my mother arrived for her visit she immediately burst into tears. ...| Brevity: A Journal of Concise Literary Nonfiction
I know the sweet shape of sugar, tang, and the soft sweep of cat, mao. I know wo e le, I’m hungry; I know wo bu zhi dao, I don’t know. I know wo yao, I want; wei shen me, why; dui bu qi, I’m sorry. Last March, I learned the word ai zheng, cancer. My parents, of course, knew the word already, as native speakers who immigrated to America when they were in their late twenties. My father’s English was decent—he’d come here for grad school on scholarship—but in Chinese he was king. H...| Brevity: A Journal of Concise Literary Nonfiction
According to the US census, more than one-quarter of older adults live alone, one out of five men and one out of three women Nearly half of women over 75 live by themselves. 1. I live alone. Husband dead. No kids. My dog can’t hear anymore. God is the only one left who might be listening. He doesn’t answer, not in words. I can’t go out to lunch with God. He’ll never bake me a birthday cake. I can’t ask Him to fix my laundry room light or the gate that won’t stay shut. He’s no...| Brevity: A Journal of Concise Literary Nonfiction
In Tokyo, they measure death in hours. Nako’s began with stomach pains at a wedding reception—her own. The cake hadn’t been cut yet, but something else was already dividing inside her, multiplying with the precision of a cell gone wrong. Three hundred and twelve days from “I do” to “Time of death:” The numbers feel important somehow. Like if I could solve them, arrange them differently, I could find the equation that explains how a body becomes a battlefield so quickly. Twenty-n...| Brevity: A Journal of Concise Literary Nonfiction
I’m nine. I stand behind a leather couch in the larger area of the daylight basement everyone calls the rumpus room. It’s Easter Sunday and cool and hazy outside but not enough so that my grandfather will need to ignite the fists of coal already mounded in the grate of the fireplace. Three of my cousins play Monopoly. The dice on the game board fall like whispers. The broader family argues and chats upstairs: My mother and sisters, my grandparents—the six who live here along with me—a...| Brevity: A Journal of Concise Literary Nonfiction
Click here to jump to recipe. Otherwise, notice the tippy milk crates stacked two-high under your five-year-old feet, the white chef’s apron knotted behind your neck, draping down past your shoes, between you and the oven door of the ten-burner stove in your grandfather’s diner, the two flats of eggs, thirty to a flat, ready for you and the egg and parsley fritters you’ll sneak pieces of later under your grandfather’s approving wink, those back burners turned off so the eggs don’t o...| Brevity: A Journal of Concise Literary Nonfiction
Your mother won’t forget you right away. There will be plenty of time to prepare logistically and emotionally for this event. You’ll become accustomed to the usual symptoms over the course of months or years: forgetting appointments, tripping over the names of acquaintances, the first missed birthday. When she begins to fumble overlong with her seatbelt, you will buckle it for her without overthinking the sad poetry of this role reversal. Next come the bills. Then the pills. You will noti...| Brevity: A Journal of Concise Literary Nonfiction
(after Hanif Abdurraqib) I remember guns were a private thing we only used at camp beginning with the potshots my cousins and I took at empty Miller Lite cans the white cans with the red emblem and the time David yelled at me after I discharged the lever action BB gun across the water because I didn’t know the pellet could skip all that way and hit someone and I remember the smart satisfying crack of the pump action .22 rifle with little recoil and while it was thrilling it was safe and it ...| Brevity: A Journal of Concise Literary Nonfiction
He switched the headlights off and urged her up, into the night air. “Go on. Stand up,” he said, pointing at the Toyota’s open moon roof. The car rolled slowly down a country road, somewhere deep in the valley of quakes. Soon enough she would be too old for this. “Really?” the little girl asked, wide-eyed. He reassured his daughter that he had everything under control even as he knew this wasn’t true. Beyond the green glow of the dashboard, the stars seemed to hang over the Chol...| Brevity: A Journal of Concise Literary Nonfiction
Yesterday, I couldn’t find my passport, not that I needed it, I wasn’t going anywhere, hadn’t gone anywhere in ages, not since my partner and I decided to pack up the house we’d lived in for ten years and move to another (smaller) house, in another (larger) city, with car alarms and sirens and helicopters circling our neighborhood every Saturday night, a world that’s turned mine upside down (this is what I tell myself when I can’t find my keys or my phone or the pair of glasses I ...| Brevity: A Journal of Concise Literary Nonfiction
I keep a catalogue, a mental inventory. There are mothers who paint portraits of cats dressed as Napoleon Bonaparte and mothers who fall asleep drunk on patterns for XXXL pajama pants, and mothers who mouth “fuck you” to their daughter in the backseat when they get lost in the family car and the daughter is trying her best to calm everyone down. Mothers, man. Every time I meet someone’s mother, I think: Fuck. I’m glad my own mother’s dead and that I never knew my mother after I was ...| Brevity: A Journal of Concise Literary Nonfiction
Against a backdrop of spruce trees at the far end of a small beach, a large boulder squats at the edge of the bay. Its top half is dry and pale. The lower half is damp and dirty-bronze. It’s too big to be jostled by the tides. In the foreground of this photo, dozens of smaller stones lie half-buried in sand. Beyond the boulder, a dead spruce has been partially uprooted. Its bare branches look brittle against the other, still upright, lushly-needled trees. From the photo, it’s impossible t...| Brevity: A Journal of Concise Literary Nonfiction
I’m on a miniature riverboat or a Chinese junk, or a wooden houseboat with a paddle wheel. I’m captain and crew. The inlet is crowded with vessels from earlier ages of sea-going vessels: hollowed out canoes, reed boats, a schooner, a pinnace. There’s an old dock and a pier and it’s crowded with vendors hawking their wares, but I can’t tell what they’re selling, and I don’t care. I have to take a piss, desperately. There’s nothing more important than that. As my boat floats clo...| Brevity: A Journal of Concise Literary Nonfiction
Dad answered and put me on speakerphone, then placed a plastic plate divided into five colored sections in front of mom at their kitchen table and said, it’s Laura, time for your morning medicines; I said, Mom, pick up the biggest oval white pill in the center of the plate and she said, “which one?” and I said the biggest oval white pill in the center of the plate, and she said, “I didn’t know it was my job to take it,” and I heard her lift the glass of iced water, so I read aloud...| Brevity: A Journal of Concise Literary Nonfiction
Buying baby socks and three onesies and one newborn outfit on the way to the appointment where the fetal doppler told us you were dead, the same newborn outfit I now see in the box on the closet floor every day when I drag out a sweater. My parents driving across five states to stay with our four-year-old who would have been your sibling, his hand waving out the car window when they drove him to preschool the morning we left for the hospital, as if waving you goodbye. Canceling the baby books...| Brevity: A Journal of Concise Literary Nonfiction
The Start of It A friend of D’s wife G says there’s been a bad accident. “That’s all I know,” she says, “except that it happened on Rte. 15 and Laurel Road.” She lowers her voice as if she doesn’t want to be overheard. “D is in surgery right now as I’m telling you this. G is at the hospital. Their kids are on their way.” A Bit of It Hours later, a posted photo of the accident site on Facebook shows one car destroyed, the front end crushed, the rest damaged by fire. D’s...| Brevity: A Journal of Concise Literary Nonfiction
I’ve been hanging around a lot of elderly folks recently, very elderly, and I don’t know what to say to them. I am so much younger. The techs put me on a completely different treadmill way off in the corner (at one point I am actually running), and on totally different resistance settings on the cardio-bike.| Brevity: A Journal of Concise Literary Nonfiction
Jeremy B. Jones’ most recent work Cipher: Decoding My Ancestor’s Scandalous Secret Diaries will come out in September 2025 with Blair Publishers. Cipher follows Jeremy’s fourth great-grandfather’s encoded writings while simultaneously grappling with the author’s own role in his family, particularly as a parent. This book offers a raw, honest look at the role of […]| Reckon Review
Maybe her philtrum is intact. The skin between her nose and lip a gentle slope, leading to a rosebud smile. She could have nursed from her mother’s plump breast with a strong suck, no whistling holes in her cat’s mouth. At school, perhaps Dawn held hands with her at recess instead of luring her into […]| Reckon Review
If you’re looking for a quick, absorbing read with a lot more depth than you’d expect from a novelette, check out Novic by Eugen Bacon.| Lightspeed MagazineRSS - Lightspeed Magazine
When I sat down to write “Apeiron” I had a decent sense of what I wanted it to be. A lot of the thinking about the story happened off the page, over years. I knew I wanted it to feel like a fable, but with more modern elements. I knew I wanted to expand on creation myths and delve into the psychology of gods. I knew I wanted it to be dreamy. What form all of that would take was the part I was least sure about. I figured I would work that out as I went.| Lightspeed MagazineRSS - Lightspeed Magazine
We’re supposed to take care of one another, empower and uplift one another, hold one another accountable, show interest in one another’s histories, present experiences and dreams for the future, keep the home we share safe and clean for all of us who live here now and will live here in the future.| Lightspeed MagazineRSS - Lightspeed Magazine
Feeling contemplative or in the mood for something poignant? Chris Kluwe recommends Lost Souls Meet Under a Full Moon by Mizuki Tsujimura and translated by Yuki Teijima.| Lightspeed MagazineRSS - Lightspeed Magazine
Be sure to read the editorial for a rundown of this month's great fiction.| Lightspeed MagazineRSS - Lightspeed Magazine
Discover how Elite Author Justin Chase redefines leadership by emphasizing value and collaboration over mere results.| selfpublishing.com : The #1 Resource For Self-Publishing a Book
Christophe Blain possesses one of the finest qualities a person can have, and I’m sure many of his fans resent him for it. The only reason why a cartoonist as skilled as Blain would direct his talents towards collaborating with non-comics people, like a chef in his previous book In The Kitchen With Alain Passard,... Read more » The post World Without End appeared first on The Comics Journal.| The Comics Journal
Our review of Devoney Looser's new scholarly work on novelist Jane Austen, "Wild for Austen."| Chicago Review of Books
Who Do You Think You Are?, an English translation of the bestselling Hebrew memoir, is an intimate and unflinching account of what it means to confront a system of violence from within. The post Who Do You Think You Are? appeared first on Ayin Press.| Ayin Press
Welcome to the Monthly Spotlight for the 2025 Nonfiction Reader Challenge! Each month I highlight some of the reviews shared for the challenge in the linky Don’t forget to link each book you r…| Book’d Out
We’re excited to share that on September 2, 2025, the longlist for the 2025 J.W. Dafoe Book Prize was announced, and included Crosses in the Sky: Jean de Brébeuf and […] The post CROSSES IN THE SKY longlisted for the J.W. Dafoe Book Prize appeared first on Biblioasis.| Biblioasis
These memoirs by Black celebrities share their journeys to becoming the icons they are today, and what they had to persevere to get here.| BOOK RIOT
Rainer Maria Rilke’s "Letters to a Young Painter" explores how art, cats and the paradox of possession illuminate the creative life.| The Culturium
In this fabulously written book, Robert Macfarlane journeys to rivers in three very different landscapes -- the cloud-forests of Ecuador, the city of Chennai, India, and the wilderness of northern Quebec -- seeking answers to the question are rivers alive and what would it mean if they were? Continue reading →| Unsolicited Feedback
Sixty years later, I often find myself deep within our den in my dreams. The post The Lost Dens of Leicester by Sharon Tyers appeared first on Little Toller Books.| Little Toller Books
Archaeology is a method and practice which resurfaces the past. It can help us reconstruct the history and culture of ancient (or not so ancient) people, and give us insight into what it means to be human. Archaeology produces more than museum displays, and it can be used to manipulate and disempower.| Nightmare MagazineRSS - Nightmare Magazine
People really don’t like confronting the unknown and they really don’t like conflict. So much of this brief window into this couple’s relationship is about avoidance, distance, observation from far away but with no real knowledge gained. And they both know it’s wrong; the Magic 8 Ball didn’t appear for no reason.| Nightmare MagazineRSS - Nightmare Magazine
Looking at Women Looking at War: A War and Justice Diary by Victoria Amelina My rating: 5 of 5 stars It’s painful, reading this account of Russian invasion of Ukraine through the eyes of a Ukrainian novelist and poet who not only lives through the surreal horror of this injustice but also joins an NGO … Continue reading “Looking at Women Looking at War” by Victoria Amelina| books are life
If you’re looking for something fantastical in scope, yet gritty in execution, you’re not going to go wrong picking this one up.| Lightspeed MagazineRSS - Lightspeed Magazine
Zan being biracial, nonbinary, and working to get by paycheck to paycheck is, frankly, a relatable existence that’s also an infuriating one. I wrote this back in 2024, prior to the election in the U.S. and other events related to CEOs that transpired, so this story feels eerily relevant in a way I never intended.| Lightspeed MagazineRSS - Lightspeed Magazine
FROM THE CHAPTER 16 ARCHIVE: This interview originally appeared on March 24, 2025. *** Almost two years ago, Yolanda Pierce moved to Nashville to become dean…| chapter16.org
There were departures from Portland every 20 minutes from 6:00 AM to 7:00 PM, at which point it dropped to every 30 minutes until midnight. Leaving Vancouver, on the other hand, required a bit more planning—departures were every 40 minutes from 6:45 AM to 11:15 PM. Seven days a week, though on Sunday mornings they didn’t start until 7:40 AM.| Grey Patterson
Explore novels contending for the 2025 prestigious UK Booker Prize, plus get a peek at Alice Vernon's 'Ghosted' coming soon.| The Longest Chapter
Now, in its 5th year, the Memoir Prize awards Memoir and Creative Nonfiction book length works of exceptional merit in the categories of traditional, self-published, and previously unpublished prose. The only contest of its kind, dedicated exclusively to the Memoir genre. This is a real opportunity for outstanding independently and self-published memoir authors to get the recognition they deserve. The full The Memoir Prize For Books! can be found at Memoir Magazine.| Memoir Magazine
*Featured Art: A TEAR by Carolyn Schlam, Ink and Watercolor, 14″ x 11″, 2020 I am lying on the Murphy bed in Herb’s dark living room, having finally acquiesced to his reasoning, pleading, and emphatic swearing that he would not ejaculate in me. Because I would kill him. “Are you positive you can do this?”... The full Hon by Laurie Harriton can be found at Memoir Magazine.| Memoir Magazine
It’s 6pm on a Sunday when Brittany calls to tell me about the mealworms.| Brevity: A Journal of Concise Literary Nonfiction
Práta means potato, child. Prátaí póir are seed-potatoes best planted on Good Friday. Iomaire is a potato bed and taobhfhód its own particular sod. Bachlóga are potato sprouts; millíní are the buds. Báinseog phrátaí is a patch of potatoes in bloom, lovelier than you might think.| Brevity: A Journal of Concise Literary Nonfiction
“Deprivation is for me what daffodils were for Wordsworth.” —Philip Larkin| Brevity: A Journal of Concise Literary Nonfiction
Listen: On this night, the house is an organ, an orchestra, a bellowing storm. The stream roars under a bridge and balconies, channeling into rapids, leaping and crashing onto boulders below. Nothing is silent this night—forested as dusk without sun, cloaked by rain that thunders as if to announce water is coming to find the path of least resistance, to find her way home.| Brevity: A Journal of Concise Literary Nonfiction
You stand on the deck of a forty-four-meter wooden pinisi-rigged boat somewhere in the Flores Sea, close to where the Komodo dragons live. A brochure claims that this boat, the Ombak Putih, was made by hand in accordance with the traditions of the South Sulawesi people. You will spend the next five days on board.| Brevity: A Journal of Concise Literary Nonfiction
A door opens onto a wall. A window is trapped behind another.| Brevity: A Journal of Concise Literary Nonfiction