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“Arrangements in Blue” – Chicago Review of Books

“Arrangements in Blue” – Chicago Review of Books

Categories Book ReviewsMay 10, 2023 by Gianni Washington
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Poet Amy Key’s first foray into nonfiction, Arrangements in Blue: Notes on Loving and Living Alone, uses Joni Mitchell’s Blue as a foundation for a … Read More

Lessons in Loving in “Blue Hour” – Chicago Review of Books

Lessons in Loving in “Blue Hour” – Chicago Review of Books

Categories Book ReviewsApril 17, 2023 by Gianni Washington
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The shortest novels I have read tend to follow one of two trajectories: a steady build towards a climactic event, or regular shifts between calm … Read More

Afro-Caribbean Folklore’s Unanswered Questions in “The Human Origins of Beatrice Porter and Other Essential Ghosts” – Chicago Review of Books

Afro-Caribbean Folklore’s Unanswered Questions in “The Human Origins of Beatrice Porter and Other Essential Ghosts” – Chicago Review of Books

Categories Book ReviewsApril 6, 2023 by Gianni Washington
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Despite what its title suggests, Soraya Palmer’s debut novel, The Human Origins of Beatrice Porter and Other Essential Ghosts, does not limit its focus to … Read More

Voluntary Disappearance in “The Unfortunates” – Chicago Review of Books

Voluntary Disappearance in “The Unfortunates” – Chicago Review of Books

Categories Book ReviewsMarch 6, 2023 by Gianni Washington
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J.K. Chukwu’s debut, The Unfortunates, is so much more than a novel. It is visual art, emotional plea, nostalgia bomb, and bildungsroman all wrapped up … Read More

Multiversal Revelations in “The Tatami Galaxy” – Chicago Review of Books

Multiversal Revelations in “The Tatami Galaxy” – Chicago Review of Books

Categories Book ReviewsFebruary 20, 2023 by Gianni Washington
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The highest highs and the lowest lows of life often lead us down the path of memory. The destination? The single decision that set us … Read More

Life Among the Born and the Made in “The Employees” – Chicago Review of Books

Life Among the Born and the Made in “The Employees” – Chicago Review of Books

Categories Book ReviewsFebruary 8, 2023 by Gianni Washington
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The Employees: A Workplace Novel of the 22nd Century by Olga Ravn, translated from the Danish by Martin Aitken, is a meditation on living, conveyed … Read More

Self-Examination in “Novelist as a Vocation” – Chicago Review of Books

Self-Examination in “Novelist as a Vocation” – Chicago Review of Books

Categories Book ReviewsNovember 10, 2022 by Gianni Washington
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If an aspiring storyteller were to pick up Haruki Murakami’s Novelist as a Vocation, translated by Philip Gabriel & Ted Goossen, expecting a step-by-step guide … Read More

The Crushing Weight of Negative Space in “Seven Empty Houses” – Chicago Review of Books

The Crushing Weight of Negative Space in “Seven Empty Houses” – Chicago Review of Books

Categories Book ReviewsOctober 28, 2022 by Gianni Washington
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Each of the seven stories in Samanta Schweblin’s collection Seven Empty Houses engages with the subject of significant absence in ways that are distinct, while … Read More

Time as Fetter and Bridge in “Habilis” – Chicago Review of Books

Time as Fetter and Bridge in “Habilis” – Chicago Review of Books

Categories Book ReviewsSeptember 13, 2022 by Gianni Washington
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In her insightful and ambitious debut novel, Habilis, Alyssa Quinn takes us on a destabilizing journey through the experiences of several beings by means of … Read More

Extraneous Villainy in “Reluctant Immortals” – Chicago Review of Books

Extraneous Villainy in “Reluctant Immortals” – Chicago Review of Books

Categories Book ReviewsAugust 23, 2022 by Gianni Washington
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It is a truth universally acknowledged that the undead do not blush. Or at the very least, it should be. In her novel Reluctant Immortals, … Read More

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