On the Beat in “The House That Madigan Built” – Chicago Review of Books

On the Beat in “The House That Madigan Built” – Chicago Review of Books

[ad_1] If you take the Amtrak from Chicago to Springfield, you run smack into time as you enter Illinois’s capital city. The train crawls along bricked roads and Springfield’s history-soaked downtown, the Capitol itself just blocks from the tracks. That journey in time and space is also taken by Ray Long in The House That … Read more

A Planet Built for Three in “Earthlings” – Chicago Review of Books

A Planet Built for Three in “Earthlings” – Chicago Review of Books

[ad_1] Society is one of these concepts we might fail to adequately define, but we all know what it means. Ironically, even more universal than this implicit understanding is the feeling that one just does not belong. This is certainly a feeling familiar to Sayaka Murata, and it’ll be familiar to readers of her first … Read more