Leonardo da Vinci by Walter Isaacson
★ ★ ★ ★ ★ Leonardo da Vinci may be the best biography of the year. It has certainly received the most hype, and in this instance it rises to the level of approbation...
Category: Biography & Memoir
Imagine Wanting Only This by Kristen Radtke
★★☆☆☆ Kristen Radtke’s aimless comics memoir Imagine Wanting Only This is about little more than a writer in search of a story. Kristen clumsily wanders through a series of inspired diversions with hope that,...
Morgue: A Life in Death by Dr. Vincent Di Maio and Ron Franscell
★★★★☆ Morgue: A Life in Death is an enlightening read; do not be put off by the title. Although there are graphic descriptions of wounds and modes of death, this is not a blood...
Arthur and Sherlock by Michael Sims
★★★★☆ Why should there be yet another book written about Sir Arthur Conan Doyle and Sherlock Holmes? There have been so many explorations of their real and imagined (and intertwined) lives that it seems...
Home and Away by Karl Ove Knausgaard and Fredrik Ekelund
★★★★☆ Karl Ove Knausgaard and Fredrik Ekelund’s Home and Away: Writing the Beautiful Game is a mesmerizing correspondence about the World Cup in 2014 that quickly grows into a text about so much more...
Scratch: Writers, Money, and the Art of Making a Living by Manjula Martin
★★★★☆ Why do we write? Why do so many school kids say they are going to be writers? What causes the disconnect between that desire and its actual execution? We write to learn, to...
Insomniac City by Bill Hayes
★★★★★ Bill Hayes left San Francisco desolate after the death of his partner, Steve. He bought a one-way ticket to New York and rented an apartment. He recalls observing five ailanthus trees from his...
The Book Thieves by Anders Rydell
★★★★★ Anders Rydell illustrates the myriad ways in which the Nazis made book disappear: they were stolen, burned, or locked away in their private libraries to be studied in order to turn their truths...
The Fortress by Danielle Trussoni
★★★☆☆ Reading a memoir adds another story layer to what’s happening between the book covers. While you’re engrossed in the story the author is telling, you’re also marveling that the author is so open and frank...
