Sand | Tor.com

Sand | Tor.com

[ad_1] When Suzy was born, her parents filled her mouth with sand. But this is normal and natural and the way things are always done.And if she finds it uncomfortable to keep it there, to eat with it there, to talk with it there, she’s just going to have to learn to live with it. … Read more

Cover Reveal: BEAUTY AND THE BESHARAM

Cover Reveal: BEAUTY AND THE BESHARAM

[ad_1] Cover reveal time! Heated competition leads to even hotter romance in this YA summer rom-com for fans of Sandhya Menon, Emma Lord, and Wibbroka. Scroll down to see the cover of Beauty and the Besharam by Lillie Vale AND read an early excerpt! Seventeen-year-old, high-achieving Kavya Joshi has always been told she’s a little too ambitious, … Read more

The God of Small Things with Mina Seçkin – Chicago Review of Books

The God of Small Things with Mina Seçkin – Chicago Review of Books

[ad_1] 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 podcast host, seeks to talk to readers and writers about the books that light a fire inside them. What’s your favorite book and why? This week’s guest is Mina … Read more

Small Monsters | Tor.com

Small Monsters | Tor.com

[ad_1] All its life, a small monster with emerald scales has been a source of never-ending food to larger and more powerful creatures who feast on the small monster’s limbs each time one regrows. This is the story of how the small monster meets an industrious artist and re-forms into someone new—someone who can’t be … Read more

An Interview with Vanessa Jimenez Gabb – Chicago Review of Books

An Interview with Vanessa Jimenez Gabb – Chicago Review of Books

[ad_1] Vanessa Jimenez Gabb’s second full-length collection of poetry, Basic Needs, is a love letter in three movements, written as the Brooklyn poet watches capitalist America in slow and seeping collapse with a steady, unflinching eye. The collection is not an elegy for this moment in time, but rather an homage to the lives built … Read more

Baby Teeth | Tor.com

Baby Teeth | Tor.com

[ad_1] A forlorn teenager’s monotonous life is interrupted when a stranger draws him into the hunt for a vampiric serial killer. He will learn that while monsters are much more real than he thought, there is no such thing as heroes.       1   I first saw him at Penny Anderson’s funeral, standing … Read more

Exploring Where the Novel Ends and the Person Begins in “A Splendid Intelligence” – Chicago Review of Books

Exploring Where the Novel Ends and the Person Begins in “A Splendid Intelligence” – Chicago Review of Books

[ad_1] Cathy Curtis’s subject in A Splendid Intelligence: the Life of Elizabeth Hardwick is mighty. A writer whose career spanned decades—a ‘literary lion’. It is a chronological account of the writer’s life. The first couple of chapters trace Hardwick’s origins. It draws a portrait of a young Elizabeth whose “bookish tastes made her an anomaly … Read more

Discover your next great book!

Discover your next great book!

[ad_1] The range of graphic novels and nonfiction for children gets better, more exciting and more popular with each passing year. Even the choosiest young reader won’t be able to resist the charms of these wonderful books. Marshmallow & Jordan For the reader who carefully arranges their stuffed animals at the head of their bed … Read more