In different variations of her signature, beautifully frank language, Leslie Jamison writes about her fantasy of stability and her uncertainty as to whether it's a dream she actually wants fulfilled.

“Splinters” doesn’t possess its energy or drive; Jamison’s “The Recovering” (2018), a dense and courageous book about her alcoholism, did, but this is a more cautious, mercurial project.

Danish filmmaker Simon Lereng Wilmont wins Dragon Award Best Nordic Documentary for ‘A House Made of Splinters’ at the Gothenburg Film Festival February 5, 2022 in Gothenburg, Sweden.

The first thing you hear during “A House Made of Splinters” is the sound of barking dogs, an unquiet reference to director Simon Lereng Wilmont’s previous Ukraine documentary, “The Distant ...

For A House Made of Splinters, “We started filming in April 2019, all the way through to October 2020,” he explained. “I would go there every second month, very much on the dot, and stay ...

Responding to "Splinters," Mary Karr — one of our truly great memoirists — called the work "a gift that feels like an immediate hit and a forever classic." Jamison is also well-known for her ...

Simon Lereng Wilmont’s “ A House Made of Splinters,” a tender and humane story of a children’s shelter in eastern Ukraine, earned the top prize at the Thessaloniki Documentary Festival ...