Book Reviews Archives

The Echoes of Artifacts in “All That She Carried” – Chicago Review of Books

Book ReviewsJune 11, 2021 by Mimi Borders

Just like Tiya Miles, historian at Harvard University and author of All That She Carried, I grew up in Cincinnati, a city where history, voices … Read More

The Porous Borders Between this World and the Next in “Slipping” – Chicago Review of Books

Book ReviewsJune 10, 2021 by Matt Matros

Western audiences may not have first-hand experience cramming into Tahrir Square with two million other souls in protest, but we are more than ready to … Read More

America in the Time of Covid” – Chicago Review of Books

Book ReviewsJune 10, 2021 by benclarke2021

The successes of the vaccine rollout in the United States must not be allowed to obscure earlier failures to contain COVID-19. At the time of … Read More

New Episode of Your Favorite Book with Jesse McCarthy – Chicago Review of Books

Book ReviewsJune 10, 2021 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

An Excerpt from Wolf Lamb Bomb – Chicago Review of Books

Book ReviewsJune 9, 2021 by Aviya Kushner

My sister used to live on Wellington Avenue. I would drive in from Iowa, search for free parking on nearby Cannon Drive, and stay the … Read More

More Than Revenge in “Animal” – Chicago Review of Books

Book ReviewsJune 9, 2021 by Brock Kingsley

As a cisgender white male, I am least interested in what cisgender white males have to say. Too often, too many suck the oxygen out … Read More

Anguish and Acknowledgment in “Unwell Women” – Chicago Review of Books

Book ReviewsJune 9, 2021 by Malavika Praseed

Elinor Cleghorn’s Unwell Women: Misdiagnosis and Myth in a Man-Made World is an intriguing exploration of the history of women’s health, specifically how women are … Read More

Myth and Metaphor in “Walking on Cowrie Shells” – Chicago Review of Books

Book ReviewsJune 7, 2021 by abejezsch

The final story of Nana Nkweti’s debut short story collection, “Kinks,” bears the book title in a telling passage: “No matter how many boardroom doors … Read More

The Depth of Familial Trauma in “The Brothers Silver” – Chicago Review of Books

Book ReviewsJune 4, 2021 by jessicadekoninck

Stories of family trauma, parent-child relationships, and sibling relationships are not new in literature. Compelling examples go as far back as the Bible. Unfortunately, writing … Read More

Uniting Form and Function in “With Teeth” – Chicago Review of Books

Book ReviewsJune 3, 2021 by D. W. White

For all the ink shed—in reviews, interviews, and criticism—about the trials and tribulations of navigating the literary world on the level of the individual novel, … Read More

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