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A True Story of Black Creeks in “We Refuse to Forget” – Chicago Review of Books

A True Story of Black Creeks in “We Refuse to Forget” – Chicago Review of Books

Categories Book ReviewsJune 14, 2022 by Ryan Asmussen
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In 1830, President Andrew Jackson, a former Army general with the nickname “Indian Killer,” signed into law one of the most cruel pieces of legislation … Read More

Shuttling Down the Side Streets of the Weird in “Out There” – Chicago Review of Books

Shuttling Down the Side Streets of the Weird in “Out There” – Chicago Review of Books

Categories Book ReviewsMarch 29, 2022 by Ryan Asmussen
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When I was a liminal fifteen in Reagan’s dire 1980s, my desperately-needed imaginative transport took the form of cable reruns of The Twilight Zone. Having … Read More

Leading Dante from Shadow into City in “Dante” – Chicago Review of Books

Leading Dante from Shadow into City in “Dante” – Chicago Review of Books

Categories Book ReviewsJanuary 4, 2022 by Ryan Asmussen
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There is an inarguable ephemerality about Dante Alighieri, the author of the Divine Comedy (in Italian, Commedia—the “Divine” was a publisher’s later addition). C.S. Lewis … Read More

An Interview with Joe Moshenska – Chicago Review of Books

An Interview with Joe Moshenska – Chicago Review of Books

Categories Book ReviewsDecember 14, 2021 by Ryan Asmussen
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Oxford Professor of English Literature Joe Moshenska has done something arguably long overdue in Milton studies. Approaching the Olympian of English letters from a mix … Read More

A Vast Journey Through Literary History in “Around the World in 80 Books” – Chicago Review of Books

A Vast Journey Through Literary History in “Around the World in 80 Books” – Chicago Review of Books

Categories Book ReviewsNovember 22, 2021 by Ryan Asmussen
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If there is an academic in America most committed to the idea of literature as a vast, human project, an artistic process of knowing and … Read More

Self-Determination and Transcendence in “Books Promiscuously Read” – Chicago Review of Books

Self-Determination and Transcendence in “Books Promiscuously Read” – Chicago Review of Books

Categories Book ReviewsJuly 8, 2021 by Ryan Asmussen
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The experience of reading, like any intimately subjective experience, is a challenge to fathom, perhaps as tricky for us as it was for Augustine, staring … Read More

The Hauntings of Tension and Unease in “A Lonely Man” – Chicago Review of Books

The Hauntings of Tension and Unease in “A Lonely Man” – Chicago Review of Books

Categories Book ReviewsMay 10, 2021 by Ryan Asmussen
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Tentative and fogbound, writer Robert Prowe, the protagonist of Chris Powers’s A Lonely Man, finds himself in the middle of his life much like the … Read More

The Hierarchy of Language in “The Perseverance.” – Chicago Review of Books

The Hierarchy of Language in “The Perseverance.” – Chicago Review of Books

Categories Book ReviewsMarch 31, 2021 by Ryan Asmussen
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The title of Raymond Antrobus’s debut collection, The Perseverance, derives from the name of the London pub the poet’s father used to frequent, an establishment … Read More

Sonic Relationships and Semantic Rhythms in “Field Music” – Chicago Review of Books

Sonic Relationships and Semantic Rhythms in “Field Music” – Chicago Review of Books

Categories Book ReviewsOctober 16, 2020 by Ryan Asmussen
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Alexandria Hall’s National Poetry Series-winning book, Field Music, possesses a poetic maturity born less from extensive experience than from piercing vision and sensitivity. Hall, a … Read More

Knocking Poetry Off Its Pedestal in “The Math Campers” – Chicago Review of Books

Knocking Poetry Off Its Pedestal in “The Math Campers” – Chicago Review of Books

Categories Book ReviewsSeptember 30, 2020 by Ryan Asmussen
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An extraordinary, often mesmerizing engagement with the nature of identity and other existential trappings, The Math Campers, Dan Chiasson’s new collection of poetry, is a … Read More

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