by 4thgenre | Sep 20, 2025 | Review
Listening to the Silence: Meditations on the Messy and the Mundane in A Year and a Day by Juliet Way-Henthorne A Year and A Day By Phillip Lopate 216 pp. New York Review Books, $17.95Released October 2023 In A Year and a Day, Phillip Lopate holds a mirror up to the...
by Courtney Bulsiewicz | Aug 8, 2024 | Review
Thoughts on Thot: Fragments, Echoes, Bullets, Hauntings Thot By Chanté L. Reid96 pp. Sarabande Books, $17.95Released October 2022 Chanté L. Reid’s Thot, though only 80 pages, is immense. Reid jam-packs the pages of her book-length essay in scope, emotion, thought,...
by 4thgenre | Aug 30, 2023 | Review
Precious Cargo A Review of Chris Arthur’s latest essay collection Hidden Cargoes By Chris Arthur232 pp. Eastover Press, $20.00Released October 2022 I have come all the way to New Orleans for this gumbo. It is nestled in a bowl in front of me, just shy of...
by Cicily Bennion | Aug 19, 2022 | Review
Glorious, Golden, and Contemporary On Phillip Lopate’s New Anthologies of the American Essay The Glorious American Essay: One Hundred Essays from Colonial Times to the PresentEdited by Phillip Lopate928 pp. Anchor, $20.00Released November 2020 The Golden Age of...
by Bob Cowser, Jr. | Aug 5, 2022 | Review
The Ways We Remain A Review of the late Ned Stuckey-French’s essays One by One, The StarsBy Ned Stuckey-French217 pp. University of Georgia Press, $24.95Released May 2022 The last book review I wrote was one my late friend Ned Stuckey-French assigned to me, in...
by Nicole Walker | Oct 9, 2021 | Review
Who Do We Talk To? Memoir’s Multivisionary Perspective The Terrible Unlikelihood of Our Being HereBy Susanne Paola Antonetta260 pp. Mad Creek Books, $22.95Released February 2021 Where We SwimBy Ingrid Horrocks224 pp. Victoria University Press, $35.00Released...
