Recent Reviews
- Tone by Sofia Samatar and Kate Zambreno. Atmospheric Quarterly, Spring 2024.
- Sleepless: A Memoir of Insomnia by Marie Darrieussecq. Words Without Borders, September 7, 2023.
Book Riot
All my posts on Book Riot are available on my author page.
Book Reviews
All reviews for Foreword Reviews are available here.
2017
- Abandon Me, by Melissa Febos, and Dear Friend, My Life I Write to You in Your Life, by Yiyun Lee. Women’s Review of Books, November/December 2017
- Too Much and Not the Mood, by Durga Chew-Bose. Kenyon Review, Fall 2017
2016
- Chasing Ghosts: A Memoir of a Father, by Louise De Salvo; Mysteries of Love and Grief, by Sandra Scofield; and The Latter Days: A Memoir, by Judith Fre: eman. Women’s Review of Books, November/December 2016.
- Everywhere I Look, by Helen Garner. Open Letters Monthly, December 2016
- The Art of Waiting, by Belle Boggs. The Rumpus, October 2016
- Ladivine, by Marie NDiaye. Full Stop, July 2016
- One Hundred Twenty-One Days, by Michèle Audin. Full Stop, June 2016
- Violation: Collected Essays, by Sallie Tisdale. Bookslut, May 2016
- The Red Parts, by Maggie Nelson. Open Letters Monthly, April 2016
- Why We Write About Ourselves, edited by Meredith Maran. The Rumpus, March 2016
- The Loss of All Lost Things, by Amina Gautier. Necessary Fiction, March 2016
- The Kindness of Enemies, by Leila Aboulela. Bookslut, March/April 2016
- Now and At the Hour of Our Death, by Susana Moreira Marques. Full Stop, January 2016
2015
- Home, by Leila Chudori. Full Stop, November, 2015
- The Odd Woman and the City, by Vivian Gornick. Open Letters Monthly, October 2015
- Who Do You Love, by Jennifer Weiner. Open Letters Monthly, October 2015
- The Art of Memoir, by Mary Karr. The Seattle Review of Books, September 2015
- Negroland, by Margo Jefferson. Bookslut, September/October 2015
- Loving Day, by Mat Johnson. Full Stop, September 2015
- Queen of Flowers and Pearls, by Gabriella Ghermandi. Necessary Fiction, July 2015
- The Argonauts, by Maggie Nelson. Shiny New Books, July 2015
- Hausfrau, by Jill Alexander Essbaum. Open Letters Monthly, June 2015
- This House of Grief, by Helen Garner. Bookslut, May 2015
- Dear Thief, by Samantha Harvey. Full Stop, April 2015.
- Apocalypse Baby, by Virginie Despentes. Full Stop, April 2015.
- The Fall of Language in the Age of English, by Minae Mizumura. The Quarterly Conversation, March 2015
- What Days Are For: A Memoir, by Robert Dessaix. Bookslut, March 2015
- Self-Portrait in Green, by Marie NDiaye. Necessary Fiction, February 2015
- Fog Island Mountains, by Michelle Bailat-Jones. Shiny New Books, January 2015
- Men We Reaped, by Jesmyn Ward. Shiny New Books, January 2015
2014
- On Immunity: An Innocation, by Eula Biss. Full Stop, December 2014
- What We See When We Read, by Peter Mendelsund. Shiny New Books, October 2014
- Land of Love and Drowning, by Tiphanie Yanique. Necessary Fiction, August 2014
- Train Shots, by Vanessa Blakeslee. Necessary Fiction, July 2014
2011 and earlier
- How to Live: Or a Life of Montaigne, by Sarah Bakewell. The Quarterly Conversation, March 2011
- How to Escape From a Leper Colony, by Tiphanie Yanique. Necessary Fiction, February 2011
- A Jury of Her Peers, by Elaine Showalter. The Quarterly Conversation, October 2009
- The Winner of Sorrow, by Brian Lynch. The Quarterly Conversation, 2009
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