Life During an Uncertain Spring in “The Vulnerables” – Chicago Review of Books

Life During an Uncertain Spring in “The Vulnerables” – Chicago Review of Books

[ad_1] Sigrid Nunez’s ninth novel, The Vulnerables, uses the 2020 pandemic as an inciting incident for an examination of the uncertainties and vulnerabilities that we experience during catastrophes as well as in our quotidian lives. The narrative is deceptively simple: a professor offers her apartment to a healthcare worker during the early days of the … Read more

A Spring of Maternal Mythologies in “Hinge” – Chicago Review of Books

A Spring of Maternal Mythologies in “Hinge” – Chicago Review of Books

[ad_1] The many hauntings of a mother’s body coalesce in Hinge, a new poetry collection by Molly Spencer. With stories ranging from the ancient myths of Persephone and Demeter to the modern folklore of Peter Pan, Hinge examines a girl’s dreams alongside a mother’s fears. In Spencer’s poetry, pain is chronic in the body, persistent … Read more