Complex – Reads A Lot

A Study of the Complex Humanity Behind True Crime in Kate Brody’s Novel “Rabbit Hole” – Chicago Review of Books

Book ReviewsJanuary 5, 2024 by Monika Dziamka

[ad_1] We live in a golden age of the armchair detective, a person who aims to help solve a real-life mystery without the official qualifications for such work. Global fascination with true crime has led to an explosion of documentaries, websites, online forums, and more; a 2023 Pew Research Center study1 found that true crime … Read more

Complex Expressions of Connection in “The Last Language” – Chicago Review of Books

Book ReviewsNovember 7, 2023 by Ellie Eberlee

[ad_1] “One thing all truths have in common,” observes Angela, the protagonist of award-winning author Jennifer duBois’s fourth novel, The Last Language, is that “they are only visible from certain distances.” Angela is a twenty-seven-year-old PhD candidate in linguistics at Harvard. She is also the recently widowed mother of four-year-old Josephine. After a harrowing miscarriage, … Read more