Nonfiction reviews

Memoir: Mean by Myriam Gurba (Iowa Review)

Memoir: Song and the Silence by Yvette Johnson (Dallas Morning News)

Biography: A Loaded Gun: Emily Dickinson for the 21st Century by Jerome Charyn (Dallas Morning News)

American History/Memoir: Something Must Be Done About Prince Edward County: A Family, a Town, a Civil Rights Battle by Kristen Green (Dallas Morning News)

Memoir: Men We Reaped by Jesmyn Ward (Dallas Morning News)

Biography: Listening for Madeleine: A Portrait of Madeleine L'Engle in Many Voices by Leonard Marcus (Dallas Morning News)

American History: Devil in the Grove: Thurgood Marshall, the Groveland Boys, and the Dawn of a New America (Dallas Morning News)

Literary Criticism: Dickinson: Selected Poems and Commentary by Helen Vendler (Pittsburgh Post-Gazette)

Biography: Phillis Wheatley: Biography of a Genius in Bondage by Vincent Caretta (Dallas Morning News)