The ghosts of Dennis Mombauer’s The House of Drought are many, as many as there are allegories. The established fact of extraction, the ritual of … Read More
Being an aspiring artist can feel like an uphill battle: you look around and notice the world in flames, both literal (climate change) and figurative … Read More
“Sorry about the fuel queues! It was the same in Lebanon last summer,” was Zeina Hashem Beck’s response to my email written after I returned … Read More
Aviva Rosner is many things: punk folk singer, contrarian, potty mouth, feminist, Jew, occasional vegan, fan of Amy Winehouse. She is also a woman approaching … Read More
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 … Read More