Book Reviews

The Body of History and the Memory of Home in “The Wild Fox of Yemen.” – Chicago Review of Books

Book ReviewsApril 12, 2021 by Meredith Boe

Yemeni American poet and translator Threa Almontaser won the 2020 Walt Whitman Award of the Academy of American Poets for her brilliant debut poetry collection, … Read More

Through Magic to Realism in “Caul Baby” – Chicago Review of Books

Book ReviewsApril 12, 2021 by Dena Soffer

In a powerful essay for The Nation, Toni Morrison recalled “feeling helpless” in 2004’s political climate. A friend called, cheering her. “This is precisely the time … Read More

$Reflection and Refraction in “The Hard Crowd” – Chicago Review of Books$

Reflection and Refraction in “The Hard Crowd” – Chicago Review of Books

Book ReviewsApril 10, 2021 by Elliot Frank

From the first time I read Rachel Kushner’s novels, I thought about nonfiction. The biting yet elegant voices of her narrators reminded me of literary … Read More

On Solitude and Discovery, in “Shadow City” – Chicago Review of Books

Book ReviewsApril 2, 2021 by Anandi Mishra

Shadow City: A Woman Walks Kabul by the Indian writer Taran Khan is exciting in the way unclassifiable things are exciting. It’s no surprise that … Read More

Missed Connections in “Dostoevsky in Love” – Chicago Review of Books

Book ReviewsMarch 31, 2021 by Ross Collin

Across his fiction, journalism, and letters, Fyodor Dostoevsky spoke in many voices. He spoke as a radical who would face mock execution and years in … Read More

Intertwined Memories and Destinies in “Horizontal Vertigo” – Chicago Review of Books

Book ReviewsMarch 31, 2021 by Teddy Burnette

As primarily a reader of fiction, I am wary of non-fiction that attempts to encompass an entire city in a single book. I can’t help … Read More

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

Book ReviewsMarch 31, 2021 by Ryan Asmussen

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

“A Little Devil in America” Celebrates the Power of Black Performance – Chicago Review of Books

Book ReviewsMarch 31, 2021 by Mandana Chaffa

A Little Devil in America: Notes in Praise of Black Performance, features Hanif Abdurraqib’s considerable talents as a poet, essayist and thoughtful social commentator. Reading … Read More

Elusive Freedom in “Libertie” – Chicago Review of Books

Book ReviewsMarch 31, 2021 by Kat Solomon

“I saw my mother raise a man from the dead,” Libertie Sampson tells us at the beginning of Kaitlyn Greenidge’s second novel. Libertie is a … Read More

Unifying the Female Self in “Girlhood” – Chicago Review of Books

Book ReviewsMarch 31, 2021 by Jeannine Burgdorf

After a storytelling show a couple of years ago, years after the Weinstein news was everywhere, I mentioned to a group of women who gathered … Read More

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