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Growing Up Gay in a Fractured Land” – Chicago Review of Books

Growing Up Gay in a Fractured Land” – Chicago Review of Books

Categories Book ReviewsJune 22, 2022 by Mandana Chaffa
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With striking, poetic prose, Taylor Brorby’s Boys and Oil: Growing Up Gay in a Fractured Land reveals a hidden life in the wide open spaces … Read More

A Feel-Bad Romance” – Chicago Review of Books

A Feel-Bad Romance” – Chicago Review of Books

Categories Book ReviewsMay 23, 2022 by Mandana Chaffa
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Fasten your seatbelts and make sure you know where the oxygen masks are: John Waters’ first novel Liarmouth: A Feel-Bad Romance is a hopscotching, subversive … Read More

Embracing the Eternal Present in “The Hurting Kind” – Chicago Review of Books

Embracing the Eternal Present in “The Hurting Kind” – Chicago Review of Books

Categories Book ReviewsMay 18, 2022 by Mandana Chaffa
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In the first poem of the much-anticipated new collection from poet Ada Limón, The Hurting Kind, Limón wonders: “Why am I not allowed / delight? … Read More

Celebrating Poetry Month with a Dozen Collections – Chicago Review of Books

Celebrating Poetry Month with a Dozen Collections – Chicago Review of Books

Categories Book ReviewsApril 25, 2022 by Mandana Chaffa
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I don’t really know why I do this to myself. There’s no way to narrow down the fantastic poetry of any year into a brief … Read More

Portrait of the Artist Transforming Grief in “Time Is a Mother” – Chicago Review of Books

Portrait of the Artist Transforming Grief in “Time Is a Mother” – Chicago Review of Books

Categories Book ReviewsApril 11, 2022 by Mandana Chaffa
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Like many, I’ve been eagerly anticipating Ocean Vuong’s Time Is a Mother, his second collection of poems following the success of Night Sky with Exit … Read More

An Interview With Meghan O’Rourke About “The Invisible Kingdom” – Chicago Review of Books

An Interview With Meghan O’Rourke About “The Invisible Kingdom” – Chicago Review of Books

Categories Book ReviewsMarch 2, 2022 by Mandana Chaffa
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Talking with Meghan O’Rourke—the accomplished poet and editor-in-chief of The Yale Review—about her new book was a rare and meaningful opportunity for a substantive personal and … Read More

The Many Shades of Passion in “A Hundred Lovers” – Chicago Review of Books

The Many Shades of Passion in “A Hundred Lovers” – Chicago Review of Books

Categories Book ReviewsFebruary 9, 2022 by Mandana Chaffa
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After two years of physical and psychic anxiety and what feels like a permanent, unwanted reframing of our bodies in the world and in proximity … Read More

Replications and Multiverses in “Present Tense Machine” – Chicago Review of Books

Replications and Multiverses in “Present Tense Machine” – Chicago Review of Books

Categories Book ReviewsJanuary 13, 2022 by Mandana Chaffa
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Your appreciation of Gunnhild Øyehaugh’s Present Tense Machine, translated by Kari Dickson, will be partially predicated on how much you think about multiverses, or déjà … Read More

Poetry Collections for Midwinter Nights – Chicago Review of Books

Poetry Collections for Midwinter Nights – Chicago Review of Books

Categories Book ReviewsDecember 21, 2021 by Mandana Chaffa
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In Persian culture, on the winter solstice, we have a variety of rituals to mark the longest night of the year, one of which is … Read More

A Literary Thanksgiving From Chicago Review of Books – Chicago Review of Books

A Literary Thanksgiving From Chicago Review of Books – Chicago Review of Books

Categories Book ReviewsNovember 24, 2021 by Mandana Chaffa
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Thanksgiving is upon us, and I’m especially grateful for my Chicago Review of Books colleagues, whose collaborative generosity and literary talents are matched by their passion for … Read More

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