Book Reviews Archives

Art, Love, and Rivalry in 1920s Paris” – Chicago Review of Books

Book ReviewsAugust 15, 2022 by Brock Kingsley

Kiki de Montparnasse. Such a great name. It’s an exciting name, an erotic name, a name that evokes a certain place and a certain time. … Read More

Your Favorite Book with Belinda Huijuan Tang – Chicago Review of Books

Book ReviewsAugust 11, 2022 by Malavika Praseed

Welcome to another installment of a collaboration between the Chicago Review of Books and the Your Favorite Book podcast. Malavika Praseed, frequent CHIRB contributor and … Read More

Sonic Pleasures in “The Deer” – Chicago Review of Books

Book ReviewsAugust 11, 2022 by Annie Raab

I somehow ended up reading two books about deer at the same time: Olga Tokarczuk’s 2009 novel, Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the … Read More

On Loving Pets, Here and Hereafter” – Chicago Review of Books

Book ReviewsAugust 10, 2022 by Nicole Graev Lipson

Anyone who has lost a beloved pet knows the profound grief that can accompany this experience. And yet, while there are many codified rituals for … Read More

Fables for Our Time in Maya Sonenberg’s “Bad Mothers, Bad Daughters” – Chicago Review of Books

Book ReviewsAugust 9, 2022 by Patrick Thomas Henry

In her essay “Fairy Tale Is Form, Form Is Fairy Tale,” Kate Bernheimer balks at critics who pan fairy tales, fabulism, and other genres where … Read More

Theatrical Reverberations in “Cyclorama” – Chicago Review of Books

Book ReviewsAugust 8, 2022 by Steve Nathans-Kelly

Much of Adam Langer’s finely wrought, raucously funny, and startlingly insightful new novel, Cyclorama, occurs within “The Annex,” an insular and endlessly drama-steeped theatrical enclave … Read More

The Creation of Eve and A. in “What Concerns Us” – Chicago Review of Books

Book ReviewsAugust 5, 2022 by Elizabeth McNeill

Upon returning to Nuremberg after two years in Venice, an inspired Albrecht Dürer decided to combine the Italian and Germanic styles in a study of … Read More

Whiteness No More in “The Last White Man” – Chicago Review of Books

Book ReviewsAugust 4, 2022 by Fouad Mami

How would it feel to realize that your father or mother holds a muted distaste for you because your skin has suddenly ceased to be … Read More

An Interview with Sue Mell about Provenance – Chicago Review of Books

Book ReviewsAugust 3, 2022 by Jennifer Solheim

Sue Mell’s debut novel Provenance (Madville Publishing, July 19, 2022) focuses on DJ, a fifty-something writer living in Brooklyn, who is grieving his wife’s early … Read More

Writing For and Against Genre in “Beating Heart Baby” – Chicago Review of Books

Book ReviewsAugust 2, 2022 by S.M. Sukardi

There’s a certain meme that made its rounds throughout the queerer parts of Tumblr and Twitter several years ago, and still sometimes appears in conversation. … Read More

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