Adele Dumont

Adele Dumont is the author of No Man is an Island. Her second book, a collection of personal essays exploring mental illness, is forthcoming with Scribe in 2024.

All essays by Adele Dumont

Review: Adele Dumonton Lee Kofman
  • The Writer Laid Bare by Lee Kofman Ventura Press/Simon and Schuster
    352pp
    Published March 2022
    ISBN: 9781920727550

Re-Mystification

In permitting the reader ample space for introspection, Kofman’s narrator is as good a listener as she is a writer. And like any good listener, her role is not to leap to the rescue with answers or advice.
Jun. 2022 • • •
Review: Adele Dumonton Sarah Walker
  • The First Time I Thought I was Dying by Sarah Walker UQP
    240pp
    Published August 2021
    ISBN: 9780702263286

Insides Out

The First Time I Thought I Was Dying is at its most engaging when Walker lets her specific experiences raise larger, ethically knotty questions and resists the urge to answer them too neatly.
Sep. 2021 • • •