“You Learn to Care for Your Characters Differently”: An Interview with Rachel Lyon on “Fruit of the Dead” Categories Book ReviewsMarch 7, 2024 by Ian MacAllen Like Facebook TwitterRachel Lyon’s Fruit of the Dead follows a young woman, Cory, on the cusp of adulthood when she signs the paperwork for a job as … Read More
A Conversation with Amina Akhtar on “Almost Surely Dead” – Chicago Review of Books Categories Book ReviewsFebruary 5, 2024 by Devi Bhaduri Like Facebook TwitterOn the way home from work, Dunia Ahmed is attacked and nearly flung to her death onto New York City subway tracks. When strangers manage … Read More
Covering Poe in “What Moves the Dead” – Chicago Review of Books Categories Book ReviewsJuly 18, 2022 by Jason Archbold Like Facebook TwitterThere are two elements to playing a good cover song. The first is that the band must remember what made the song great in the … Read More
Overthinking or Underestimating in “Everyone in This Room Will Someday Be Dead” – Chicago Review of Books Categories Book ReviewsJuly 6, 2021 by Caitlin Stout Like Facebook TwitterWhile events in the past year have left some hoping for a “return to normal” in the coming months, others must continue to cope with … Read More
Crimes Against Originality in “Dead Souls” – Chicago Review of Books Categories Book ReviewsMay 31, 2021 by Dana Hansen Like Facebook TwitterFrom the earliest pages of English poet Sam Riviere’s debut novel, Dead Souls, the reader is catapulted into an extended internal monologue satirizing the follies … Read More
Repressed-Trauma-Dredging and Dead Cats in “Justine” – Chicago Review of Books Categories Book ReviewsMarch 10, 2021 by E.B. Bartels Like Facebook TwitterBeing a teenage girl is hard. Especially on Long Island during the summer of 1999. No one knows this better than Forsyth Harmon. Author of … Read More