Run Towards the Danger: Confrontations with a Body of Memory is a 2022 essay collection by Canadian director, screenwriter, and former actress Sarah Polley.

"[3] The book is composed of six essays: The collection received a positive review from CBC which praised it for "riveting clarity".

[4] Claire Armitstead of The Guardian described the book as "unlike any [memoir] I have ever read", and wrote that it gives "a bruisingly candid and intelligent account of the physical and psychic injuries Polley has suffered and surmounted".

[5] Meghan Daum, writing in The New York Times, gave the book a positive review.

She praised the essay "The Woman Who Stayed Silent" in particular, noting Polley's "precision and self-scrutiny".