Jeanne Braham

Passionate Inwardness (on Ordinary Time: Cycles in Marriage, Faith, and Renewal by Nancy Mairs; Virgin Time: In Search of the Contemplative Life by Patricia Hampl; & Dakota: A Spiritual Geography by Kathleen Norris)

After the Losses (on The Alchemy of Illness by Kat Duff; Intoxicated by My Illness: And Other Writings on Life and Death by Anatole Broyard and Alexandra Broyard; Broken Vessels by Andre Dubus; Refuge: An Unnatural History of Family and Place by Terry Tempest Williams; Carnal Acts by Nancy Mairs; Life Work by Donald Hall; A Whole New Life: An Illness and a Healing by Reynolds Price)

The Speed of Memory (on Vertigo: A Memoir by Louise DeSalvo; The Lonely Other: A Woman Watching America by Diana Hume George; and In Search of Susanna by Suzanne L. Bunkers)

The Power of Witness (on Fruits of Sorrow: Framing Our Attention to Suffering by Elizabeth V. Spelman; Vigil by Alan Shapiro; Heaven’s Coast by Mark Doty; and This Wild Darkness: The Story of My Death by Harold Brodkey)