An excerpt from Aviya Kushner's new collection, Wolf Lamb Bomb.| Chicago Review of Books
An interview with Ilana Masad on her new novel, "Beings" The post A Little Bit More Ourselves: A Conversation with Ilana Masad appeared first on Chicago Review of Books.| Chicago Review of Books
Our review of H. S. Cross's new novel, "Amanda." The post Across Space and Time: History and Interiority in “Amanda” appeared first on Chicago Review of Books.| Chicago Review of Books
After breaking records and receiving widespread acclaim for her 2006 novel The Inheritance of Loss, Kiran Desai took her time. The Booker Prize-winning author spent the next nineteen years crafting the kind of novel you would expect after such a hiatus, the giant sweeping saga The Loneliness of Sonia and Sunny. Following the two titular… The post To Be Alone is To Be Understood: A Review of “The Loneliness of Sonia and Sunny” appeared first on Chicago Review of Books.| Chicago Review of Books
John Cal Freeman is the type of poet whose precision is surgical, but whose scope is more like NASA’s Terra satellite. Capable of capturing the finite details of a moment in relation to the broader societal context, Freeman’s newest book, The Weather of Our Names, seamlessly weaves hyper-specific environments with deep understanding of memory, place,… The post The Weather of Our Names appeared first on Chicago Review of Books.| Chicago Review of Books
At the end of When Among Crows, the first installment of Veronica Roth’s newest fantasy series, Ala, Dymitr, and Niko survived a trip to Baba Jaga’s infamous house, but now the price of their next mission looms in Roth’s latest installment, To Clutch a Razor. Severed from half his soul and bone sword, Dymitr races… The post Romance Balanced on a Razor’s Edge in “To Clutch a Razor” by Veronica Roth appeared first on Chicago Review of Books.| Chicago Review of Books
In E. Y. Zhao’s debut novel Underspin, Ryan Lo is the charismatic boy king of table tennis, a master of the sport’s “millimeter margins and symmetry, jewel-toned surfaces and sound, speed and brute perseverance.” Everyone, especially his coach Kristian, knows that Ryan could be world champion someday. So why does he quit competing and wind… The post “There’s no winning your way out of the hierarchy”: An Interview with E. Y. Zhao appeared first on Chicago Review of Books.| Chicago Review of Books
Our review of James Stewart III's debut novel, "Defiant Acts" The post Intimate Memories of Race and Class Struggle in “Defiant Acts” appeared first on Chicago Review of Books.| Chicago Review of Books
When you read a poem by Camille Ralphs, you encounter an artistic sensibility that isn’t present in the work of most contemporary poets, what I would call a palimpsestic ambiguity. To be clear, I don’t mean in this grand phrase ‘ambiguity’ in the typical usage of ‘indistinct.’ What Ralphs offers a reader is perfectly apparent:… The post The Truth Somewhere as Palimpsest: An Interview with Camille Ralphs appeared first on Chicago Review of Books.| Chicago Review of Books
Our review of Nick Medina's new book, "The Whistler." The post There Are Many Ways to be Haunted in “The Whistler” appeared first on Chicago Review of Books.| Chicago Review of Books
Although Beth and I have read what feels like a million picture books—both when we were kids and to her kids Rose and Luka—we had never written one before, and the learning curve of Leaf Town Forever has been a fun one. Above all, writing a picture book is an exercise in compression and collaboration.…| Chicago Review of Books
A Line That Survives Forever: Daniela Tarazona’s “The Animal on the Rock”| Chicago Review of Books
Our review of Devoney Looser's new scholarly work on novelist Jane Austen, "Wild for Austen."| Chicago Review of Books
When awarding the acclaimed Egyptian writer Naguib Mahfouz [1911-2006] the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1988, the Swedish Academy noted how “through works rich in nuance—now clear-sightedly realistic, now evocatively ambiguous—[Mahfouz] has formed an Arabian narrative art that applies to all mankind.” The brief, magical vignettes in new posthumous book, I Found Myself: The Last…| Chicago Review of Books
Playing the Game as a Planarian in “The Dilemmas of Working Women”| Chicago Review of Books
An interview with poet Bernard O'Donoghue about his latest collection, "Anchorage."| Chicago Review of Books
Our review of Travis Kennedy's debut novel, "The Whyte Python World Tour."| Chicago Review of Books
Our review of Amitava Kumar's new novel, "My Beloved Life."| Chicago Review of Books
Our review of Stephanie Wambugu's new book, "Lonely Crowds."| Chicago Review of Books
Our review of Aanchal Malhotra's debut novel, "The Book of Everlasting Things."| Chicago Review of Books
Our review of Zora Neale Hurston's "The Life of Herod the Great"| Chicago Review of Books
Michael Zapata Wins Inaugural DAG Prize for Literature| Chicago Review of Books
For lovers of Japanese translated fiction with an element of fable, comparable to The Blanket Cats and We’ll Prescribe You a Cat, this feline free novel adopts the tone of small-town magic built on community caring and store manager Shiba. Fans of The Authenticity Project by Clare Pooley will draw similarities between the multigenerational band of residents working through marital qualms, coming of age, or feeling seen by their peers or closest relations.| Chicago Review of Books
Our review of Issa Quincy's debut novel, "Absence"| Chicago Review of Books
Our interview with Sarah Miller about her new YA Nonfiction book about Lorena Hickok, "Hick."| Chicago Review of Books
Our review of Katie Cotugno's new novel, "Meet the Benedettos"| Chicago Review of Books
Elizabeth Held on the Double Standards Female Celebrities Face| Chicago Review of Books