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Occluded Realities in “The Circumference of the World” – Chicago Review of Books

Occluded Realities in “The Circumference of the World” – Chicago Review of Books

Categories Book ReviewsSeptember 20, 2023 by Jake Casella Brookins
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Though a fairly slender book, and a compelling read, Lavie Tidhar’s The Circumference of the World is difficult to summarize—a stream of stories and events … Read More

Biting Speculations in “Liquid Snakes” – Chicago Review of Books

Biting Speculations in “Liquid Snakes” – Chicago Review of Books

Categories Book ReviewsAugust 16, 2023 by Jake Casella Brookins
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Mostly set around Atlanta, with excursions to Louisiana, Stephen Kearse’s Liquid Snakes is a psychotropic crime thriller, a revenge story, and a bitter invective against … Read More

Biting Speculations in “Liquid Snakes” – Chicago Review of Books

Categories Book ReviewsAugust 16, 2023 by Jake Casella Brookins
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Mostly set around Atlanta, with excursions to Louisiana, Stephen Kearse’s Liquid Snakes is a psychotropic crime thriller, a revenge story, and a bitter invective against … Read More

A Queer Moon In The Heavens in “Uranians” – Chicago Review of Books

A Queer Moon In The Heavens in “Uranians” – Chicago Review of Books

Categories Book ReviewsJune 5, 2023 by Jake Casella Brookins
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Theodore McCombs’s debut collection, Uranians, is a remarkable achievement, a polished and varied set of stories: speculative, queer, and cerebral. The entire set shines on … Read More

Revising Worlds and Worldviews in “Some Desperate Glory” – Chicago Review of Books

Revising Worlds and Worldviews in “Some Desperate Glory” – Chicago Review of Books

Categories Book ReviewsApril 24, 2023 by Jake Casella Brookins
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Emily Tesh’s World-Fantasy-Award-winning Silver In the Wood and its sequel Drowned Country are deeply lovely books: quiet, yearning, and full of ancient straining curses and … Read More

Traumatic Repetition and Fresh Starts in “Lone Women” – Chicago Review of Books

Traumatic Repetition and Fresh Starts in “Lone Women” – Chicago Review of Books

Categories Book ReviewsApril 5, 2023 by Jake Casella Brookins
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The Western, as a genre, is rife with horrific elements: its frequently alienating landscapes, its history of violence, and its strange and unrestrained collision of … Read More

Ambiguity and Humanity in “The Strange” – Chicago Review of Books

Ambiguity and Humanity in “The Strange” – Chicago Review of Books

Categories Book ReviewsMarch 30, 2023 by Jake Casella Brookins
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Nathan Ballingrud’s The Strange is set on Mars in the early 20th century—not a scientifically accurate Mars, but one more like Ray Bradbury’s Martian Chronicles … Read More

A Failure of Overmining in “The Caretaker” – Chicago Review of Books

A Failure of Overmining in “The Caretaker” – Chicago Review of Books

Categories Book ReviewsFebruary 13, 2023 by Jake Casella Brookins
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D Doon Arbus’s debut novel, The Caretaker, feels both firmly grounded and strangely out of time. It’s textured, densely, with brick and cloth, with an … Read More

Alternating Realities in “Self-Portrait with Nothing” – Chicago Review of Books

Alternating Realities in “Self-Portrait with Nothing” – Chicago Review of Books

Categories Book ReviewsNovember 4, 2022 by Jake Casella Brookins
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The idea of the multiverse—an infinite array of alternate worlds that differ from ours, minutely or dramatically—has exploded into popular consciousness in the last decade … Read More

Fantastic Textures in “The Spear Cuts Through Water” – Chicago Review of Books

Fantastic Textures in “The Spear Cuts Through Water” – Chicago Review of Books

Categories Book ReviewsAugust 30, 2022 by Jake Casella Brookins
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Stories about story-telling itself always risk a kind of self-congratulatory triteness. As lovers of narrative, we’re already aware of the power of story, and hopefully … Read More

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