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Bodies and Open Spaces in “Wound” – Chicago Review of Books

Bodies and Open Spaces in “Wound” – Chicago Review of Books

Categories Book ReviewsSeptember 19, 2023 by Kat Solomon
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In the early pages of Oksana Vasyakina’s Wound, the narrator finds herself tucked into a small car with distant acquaintances in a small town outside … Read More

A Satire of Russian Life in Alisa Ganieva’s “Offended Sensibilities” – Chicago Review of Books

A Satire of Russian Life in Alisa Ganieva’s “Offended Sensibilities” – Chicago Review of Books

Categories Book ReviewsNovember 16, 2022 by Kat Solomon
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Vladimir Sorokin’s Day of the Oprichnik imagines a near-future dystopia in which a wall separates Russia from the rest of the world and the old … Read More

Language, Gender, and Power in “Witches” – Chicago Review of Books

Language, Gender, and Power in “Witches” – Chicago Review of Books

Categories Book ReviewsAugust 19, 2022 by Kat Solomon
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Brenda Lozano’s Witches, translated from the Spanish by Heather Cleary, tells the story of the lives of two Mexican women: Feliciana, an aging curandera, or … Read More

Confronting the Grief of Infertility in “Human Blues”  – Chicago Review of Books

Confronting the Grief of Infertility in “Human Blues”  – Chicago Review of Books

Categories Book ReviewsJuly 11, 2022 by Kat Solomon
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Aviva Rosner is many things: punk folk singer, contrarian, potty mouth, feminist, Jew, occasional vegan, fan of Amy Winehouse. She is also a woman approaching … Read More

The Art of the Smith in “Companion Piece” – Chicago Review of Books

The Art of the Smith in “Companion Piece” – Chicago Review of Books

Categories Book ReviewsMay 12, 2022 by Kat Solomon
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“There’s a way to be playful even in times of really terrible doubt,” posits the narrator of Ali Smith’s new novel Companion Piece. It’s hard … Read More

A Fairy Tale Journey through Moscow in “Little Foxes Took Up Matches” – Chicago Review of Books

A Fairy Tale Journey through Moscow in “Little Foxes Took Up Matches” – Chicago Review of Books

Categories Book ReviewsApril 5, 2022 by Kat Solomon
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In Katya Kazbek’s debut novel Little Foxes Took Up Matches, eleven year-old Mitya strives to find his place in 1990s Moscow. As a toddler, Mitya … Read More

A Disconcertingly Familiar Story in “Pathological” – Chicago Review of Books

A Disconcertingly Familiar Story in “Pathological” – Chicago Review of Books

Categories Book ReviewsMarch 30, 2022 by Kat Solomon
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Over the course of thirty years, writer and teacher Sarah Fay received six different psychiatric diagnoses: anorexia, major depressive disorder, anxiety disorder, attention deficit hyperactivity … Read More

A Form that Can Hold and Transform in “Very Cold People” – Chicago Review of Books

A Form that Can Hold and Transform in “Very Cold People” – Chicago Review of Books

Categories Book ReviewsFebruary 8, 2022 by Kat Solomon
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As a poet and nonfiction writer, Sarah Manguso is known for her gifts of compression. In 2017’s 300 Arguments—a work consisting of short, aphoristic sections … Read More

Lucy Lurie Tells her Story in “Lacuna” – Chicago Review of Books

Lucy Lurie Tells her Story in “Lacuna” – Chicago Review of Books

Categories Book ReviewsJanuary 12, 2022 by Kat Solomon
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Please note, this review contains mentions of sexual assault.  Several years ago during a dinner party at my home, a friend from South Africa noticed … Read More

Writing the Unspeakable in “Aftermath” – Chicago Review of Books

Writing the Unspeakable in “Aftermath” – Chicago Review of Books

Categories Book ReviewsNovember 23, 2021 by Kat Solomon
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For three years, Preti Taneja taught creative writing in a program overseen by Cambridge University called Learning Together, in which undergraduates travelled to a local … Read More

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