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Should you read that book you’ve had your eye on? Will it totally rock or sink like a stone? Check out these book reviews from book lovers like you to help you find your next great read!

Transgenerational Trauma in “Close to Home” – Chicago Review of Books

Transgenerational Trauma in “Close to Home” – Chicago Review of Books

Categories Book ReviewsMay 24, 2023 by Michael Knapp
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Sean Maguire was supposed to be the exception. After making it out of a West Belfast community haunted by economic precarity and the ever-present ghost … Read More

A Life” – Chicago Review of Books

A Life” – Chicago Review of Books

Categories Book ReviewsMay 23, 2023 by Steve Nathans-Kelly
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In King: A Life—the first major biography of the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. published in decades—Jonathan Eig describes King as “a gravitational force” … Read More

Dual Realities in “Truth/Untruth” – Chicago Review of Books

Dual Realities in “Truth/Untruth” – Chicago Review of Books

Categories Book ReviewsMay 22, 2023 by Barathi Nakkeeran
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Maheshwata Devi’s urban novella, Truth/Untruth, set in 1980s Calcutta, is a story about dirty pasts that catch up with the present, and how money is … Read More

The Specters of “Yellowface” – Chicago Review of Books

The Specters of “Yellowface” – Chicago Review of Books

Categories Book ReviewsMay 19, 2023 by Reema Saleh
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R.F. Kuang’s dark thriller Yellowface deftly paints the worst of the publishing industry and literary community and tackles questions of cultural appropriation, exploitation, and dispossession … Read More

The Translator’s Voice — Philip Gabriel on Translating Riku Onda’s “Honeybees and Distant Thunder” – Chicago Review of Books

The Translator’s Voice — Philip Gabriel on Translating Riku Onda’s “Honeybees and Distant Thunder” – Chicago Review of Books

Categories Book ReviewsMay 18, 2023 by Ian J. Battaglia
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The Translator’s Voice is a new monthly column from Ian J. Battaglia here at the Chicago Review of Books, dedicated to global literature and the … Read More

People Are Hard in “Big Shadow” – Chicago Review of Books

People Are Hard in “Big Shadow” – Chicago Review of Books

Categories Book ReviewsMay 17, 2023 by Arturo Vidich
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Reading Marta Balcewicz’s debut novel, Big Shadow, I couldn’t deny my subjectivity. In 1998, I was the same age as Judy, the novel’s inexperienced 17-year-old … Read More

On Longing and Transformation” – Chicago Review of Books

On Longing and Transformation” – Chicago Review of Books

Categories Book ReviewsMay 17, 2023 by Shayne Terry
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“The first rule of in vitro fertilization is to never talk about in vitro fertilization,” Isabel Zapata tells us from the waiting room of the … Read More

The Wild, Wild Internet in Ben Smith’s “Traffic” – Chicago Review of Books

The Wild, Wild Internet in Ben Smith’s “Traffic” – Chicago Review of Books

Categories Book ReviewsMay 16, 2023 by Barathi Nakkeeran
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The twenties have been wild for the Internet. Titanic companies like Facebook and Twitter have gone through major changes. Millions have been laid off, and … Read More

An Interview with Kelly McMasters on “The Leaving Season” – Chicago Review of Books

An Interview with Kelly McMasters on “The Leaving Season” – Chicago Review of Books

Categories Book ReviewsMay 16, 2023 by Jenny Bartoy
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In the central pages of The Leaving Season, Kelly McMasters decides to leave her marriage. Together with her husband, a painter, she had moved from … Read More

Proximity to the Natural World and Loving What is Broken in “Shy” – Chicago Review of Books

Proximity to the Natural World and Loving What is Broken in “Shy” – Chicago Review of Books

Categories Book ReviewsMay 15, 2023 by Dan Kubis
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When I was in middle school, I was haunted by the Boomtown Rats’ song “I Don’t Like Mondays.” A local radio station in Atlanta played … Read More

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