All the Lonely People in “Reward System” – Chicago Review of Books

All the Lonely People in “Reward System” – Chicago Review of Books

[ad_1] The six stories in Jem Calder’s debut collection, Reward System, paint our contemporary world in the hues of a dystopia. The tales play out across greater London—although without knowing that at the onset, it would be easy to confuse the setting as any major Western city. The same dilemmas facing Calder’s young characters could … Read more

Confronting the Injustice in our Justice System in “They Can’t Take Your Name” – Chicago Review of Books

Confronting the Injustice in our Justice System in “They Can’t Take Your Name” – Chicago Review of Books

[ad_1] It’s been thirty years since the Father’s Day Bank Massacre of 1991, a robbery at the United Bank Tower in Denver which ended in the murders of four bank guards. The prime suspect, a former cop, was acquitted at trial. Anyone familiar with the incident can easily trace the similar threads that Robert Justice … Read more

Past Traumas and Wounds of the Present in “Nervous System” – Chicago Review of Books

Past Traumas and Wounds of the Present in “Nervous System” – Chicago Review of Books

[ad_1] Trauma likes to stick around. It likes to burrow its way under our skin and nestle there, getting comfortable without your knowing—or maybe you do know, maybe you can feel it setting its claws into you and taking hold. Either way, the trauma is there to stay, not rearing its head or making itself … Read more