Reviews

In her new book of poetry, Line Dance, Barbara Crooker transforms everyday experiences — helping her son with homework, listening to her daughter practice the saxophone — into expressions of…

In her review of Meredith O’Brien’s A Suburban Mom: Notes from the Asylum, Heather Hudson looks at the difficult art of writing well about the madness that is mothering small…

In graduate school I developed the habit of dog-earing the bottom of a page in any novel or play or essay that seemed “important.” When a writer delivered an impressively…

In her review of Julia Lisella’s Terrain, Literary Mama’s own Violeta Garcia-Mendoza brings her feelings of connectedness with other mothers to her reading of the poems: “Reading them, I found…

When I first saw the title of Eleanor Stanford’s book, I laughed. What better title for a book of poems about motherhood than ? For a new mother, sleep, and…

In her review of Suzanne Kamata’s Losing Kei, Susannah Pabot brings her own experience with cross-cultural parenting to the table: I rarely worry about the possible outcomes of a divorce…

When Groneberg and her husband learned they’d be having twin boys, their main concern was whether or not they’d need an addition to their house. Five days after their sons…

Where McLarin had me hooked was with the opening lines of prologue to Jump at the Sun: He was not the first man to slither up behind her in a…

In her review of Because a Fire Was in My Head, Moura McGovern finds herself both drawn in and repelled by the award-winning novel’s complicated protagonist: “Fewer characters are harder…

In her review of About What Was Lost: 20 Writers on Miscarriage, Healing, and Hope, Ann Douglas, author of The Mother of All Pregnancy Books series, draws on her personal…

Lonnae O’Neal Parker, the mother of three young children, didn’t become familiar with the “mommy wars” until she’d written a couple of work and family articles for the Washington Post.…