Books In Review: The view from Rebekah Taussig’s wheelchair Sitting Pretty showed me how much I have to learn about ableism. by Elizabeth Felicetti January 28, 2021
Books In Review: The many voices of refugee experience Kao Kalia Yang’s collective memoir conveys their diversity—and their singular humanity. by Amy Frykholm January 20, 2021
Books In Review: For Valarie Kaur, love is sweet labor A memoir of an activist whose life is grounded in Sikh mysticism by Katherine Willis Pershey November 4, 2020
Books In Review: Michael Cohen’s tell-all about Trump is mostly about himself The moral lessons of his humiliation and imprisonment seem fairly limited. by Elizabeth Palmer September 24, 2020
Books In Review: When your partner loses faith After Stina Kielsmeier-Cook’s husband became a none, she reached out to some neighborhood nuns. by Elizabeth Felicetti September 17, 2020
Books In Review: Pregnancy is undeniably beautiful and bizarre Both Agnes Howard and Brittany Bergman encourage reflection on a transformational experience. by Leslie Verner August 6, 2020
Books In Review: Margaret Renkl’s stunning ability to see It is hard to say what will enamor readers more, the bird calls or the familial ones. by Trish Beckman May 6, 2020
Books In Review: A memoir of hardship and gratitude in Appalachia Cassie Chambers tells family stories and considers the history of the people of Owsley County, Kentucky. by Diane Scharper April 13, 2020
Books In Review: A city dweller follows the harvest Marie Mutsuki Mockett’s spiritual and cultural pilgrimage through the heart of farm country by Valerie Weaver-Zercher April 2, 2020
Books In Review: Notes from an organ transplant surgeon Joshua Mezrich weaves professional insight with personal stories. by Kristel Clayville March 31, 2020
Books In Review: A lapsed Catholic’s unexpected devotion Searching for the Mary statue from her childhood, Sonja Livingston found much more. by Amy Frykholm December 20, 2019
Books In Review: A former Jehovah’s Witness tells her story Amber Scorah’s memoir has a breathless quality that makes it compulsively readable. by Katherine Willis Pershey November 18, 2019
Books In Review: 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 by Elizabeth Felicetti November 11, 2019
Books In Review: The intersection between blackness and whiteness Emily Bernard’s essays insist that no conversation is about race alone. by Allie Lundblad September 18, 2019
Books In Review: When Jane Tompkins couldn’t move, she read Confined by illness, the feminist literary scholar dove into the complete works of V.S. Naipaul and Paul Theroux. by Shirley Hershey Showalter July 22, 2019