Confronting the Injustice in our Justice System in “They Can’t Take Your Name” – Chicago Review of Books

Confronting the Injustice in our Justice System in “They Can’t Take Your Name” – Chicago Review of Books

[ad_1] It’s been thirty years since the Father’s Day Bank Massacre of 1991, a robbery at the United Bank Tower in Denver which ended in the murders of four bank guards. The prime suspect, a former cop, was acquitted at trial. Anyone familiar with the incident can easily trace the similar threads that Robert Justice … Read more

Top Trending 2021: Fan Favorites!

Top Trending 2021: Fan Favorites!

[ad_1] 2021 has been filled with amazing reads of all categories, and we want to make sure you haven’t missed out on any! Scroll down to see our recap of some of 2021’s fan favorites on BookTok and Bookstagram! Call Us What We Carry by Amanda Gorman  The breakout poetry collection by #1 New York Times bestselling author and … Read more

Top Trending 2021: Series Edition!

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[ad_1] 2021 has been filled with amazing reads of all categories, and we want to make sure you haven’t missed out on any! Scroll down to see our recap of some of 2021’s top trending YA series, some continued and some completed! Miss Peregrine’s Peculiar Children by Ransom Riggs The #1 bestselling Miss Peregrine’s Peculiar … Read more

Loss and Longing in Cara Blue Adams’ “You Never Get It Back” – Chicago Review of Books

Loss and Longing in Cara Blue Adams’ “You Never Get It Back” – Chicago Review of Books

[ad_1] The first story in any collection sets the tone and expectations, so Cara Blue Adams’ decision to begin her linked collection, You Never Get It Back, with a rather metaphorical story is striking. But Adams isn’t afraid to make bold choices in her fiction, and it’s little wonder this debut collection won this year’s … Read more

An Interview with Joe Moshenska – Chicago Review of Books

An Interview with Joe Moshenska – Chicago Review of Books

[ad_1] 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 of new historical and reader-response positions, Moshenska buries himself deeply into an imagined psyche of the poet and polemicist, propagandist and Latinist, John Milton while also digging down into … Read more

The Dichotomy of Range in “Mothers, Fathers, and Others” – Chicago Review of Books

The Dichotomy of Range in “Mothers, Fathers, and Others” – Chicago Review of Books

[ad_1] In this latest collection Siri Hustvedt demonstrates her tremendous range as an essayist, with topics ranging from motherhood to reading during a pandemic to misogyny to Jane Austen’s expertise in rhetoric. Even within individual essays in Mothers, Fathers, and Others she jumps from topic to topic, and this diversity presents a dichotomy of sorts. … Read more