Waterhole Economies
Review Non-Fiction

Waterhole Economies

If hunter-gatherer societies sustained themselves for the overwhelming majority of human existence, is there something modern civilisation has forgotten? That’s Samuel Layne’s central question, and whether you end up agreeing with his conclusions or not, it’s a genuinely interesting one […]

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Everwoven A Memoir. A Reckoning
Review Memoir

Everwoven

Have you ever picked up a story and been a little unsure if I you were going to be able to get through it? Stories involving abuse, especially involving kids, tend to hit a bit hard for me. I am,

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Twice the Family: A Memoir of Love, Loss, and Sisterhood
Review Memoir

Twice the Family

This ended up being a fairly big miss for me, which is a tricky thing to say given how personal the material clearly is. The themes are substantial. Adoption, identity, sisterhood, grief, faith, belonging. There is plenty here that should

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Blind Greed From Ivy League to International Fugitive
Review Memoir

Blind Greed

They say crime doesn’t pay. In Lawrence Hartman’s case, it paid very well for a while, until the authorities caught up. Hartman narrates his own story from being accepted into Columbia Law School, then through a whirlwind of shady business

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Love Wars Clash of the Parents
Review Memoir

Love Wars

Divorce is often described as a battle, but Love Wars: Clash of the Parents shows what that battle feels like from the vantage point of a child caught in the crossfire. This is Matthew Tower’s own story, told through the

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Because I Knew You
Review Memoir

Because I Knew You

Because I Knew You by Robert Macauley is a memoir told through short, vivid vignettes of the children and families he’s encountered in his work as one of only a handful of pediatric palliative care physicians in the United States.

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A Bit of a Stretch꞉ The Diaries of a Prisoner
Review Memoir

A Bit of a Stretch

Chris Atkins (documentary-maker) did the crime and did the time… and took notes along the way to write and narrate this bang-up (ha! prison pun) account of his time in prison. From just before his arrival, we follow his journey

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