Lit & Luz Festival Celebrates Its 10 Year Anniversary – Chicago Review of Books

Lit & Luz Festival Celebrates Its 10 Year Anniversary – Chicago Review of Books

[ad_1] The annual cross-cultural, bilingual literature and arts festival Lit & Luz is celebrating its 10th anniversary this year! Since the launch of the festival ten years ago by MAKE Literary Productions, Lit & Luz has brought together dozens of artists and writers between Mexico and the United States into conversation with one another, producing … Read more

An Interview with Daisy Alpert Florin on “My Last Innocent Year” – Chicago Review of Books

An Interview with Daisy Alpert Florin on “My Last Innocent Year” – Chicago Review of Books

[ad_1] My Last Innocent Year, Daisy Alpert Florin’s debut novel, takes place nearly twenty years before the #MeToo movement took off. Isabel Rosen, at the onset of her last semester at Wilder College, has finally begun to feel like she belongs at the prestigious institution―until a nonconsensual sexual encounter with Zev, someone she considered a … Read more

An Identity for Herself in “My Last Innocent Year” – Chicago Review of Books

An Identity for Herself in “My Last Innocent Year” – Chicago Review of Books

[ad_1] The mid-1990s seems like a pretty good era in retrospect. America was in the middle of the longest period of economic growth in history. Global pandemics were the stuff of science fiction, the Great Depression was a history lesson, the threat of global nuclear war seemingly had collapsed along with the Berlin Wall, and … Read more

#ReadWithPride with Penguin Teen: YA books to read for Pride this year!

#ReadWithPride with Penguin Teen: YA books to read for Pride this year!

[ad_1] This Pride Month, we’re excited to celebrate extraordinary stories and voices from the LGBTQIA+ community. From contemporary, to sci-fi, to romance, there’s a little something for everyone on this list, so scroll down for a few of our recommendations to #ReadWithPride this month–and every month after that!   Kiss & Tell by Adib Khorram A YA novel … Read more

Living as a Twenty-First Century Mother in “The Year of the Horses” – Chicago Review of Books

Living as a Twenty-First Century Mother in “The Year of the Horses” – Chicago Review of Books

[ad_1] Courtney Maum’s new memoir, The Year of the Horses, uses her story of falling in love with horses and playing polo as an adult to reckon with how to exist not only as a mother, but also as a human. Maum, a writer propelled by deadlines and busyness, wrestles with the all-consuming question of … Read more

Halloween may be over, but these upcoming reads will keep your shelves scary all year long!

Halloween may be over, but these upcoming reads will keep your shelves scary all year long!

[ad_1] Already missing Halloween? Don’t worry. The rest of 2021 AND 2022 are packed with reads to keep your shelves scary all year long. Scroll down to see what’s coming!   The Righteous by Renée Ahdieh – Coming Dec 7, 2021! The third book in the instant New York Times bestselling series that began with The Beautiful. Pippa Montrose … Read more

YA books to read for Pride this year!

YA books to read for Pride this year!

[ad_1] This Pride Month, we’re celebrating extraordinary stories and voices from the LGBTQIA+ community. From contemporary, to sci-fi, to romance, there’s a little something for everyone on this list, so scroll down for a few of our recommendations to read for Pride this month–and every month after that!   Last Night at the Telegraph Club by … Read more

Brutal Order and Violent Extremes in “Written After a Massacre in the Year 2018” – Chicago Review of Books

Brutal Order and Violent Extremes in “Written After a Massacre in the Year 2018” – Chicago Review of Books

[ad_1] Daniel Borzutzky’s newest collection of poetry, Written After a Massacre in the Year 2018, examines specific violence in America, explicit within the global economic order. This collection, like his 2016 National Book Award-winning The Performance of Being Human, and Lake Michigan, examines a psychogeography of movement. There’s Pittsburgh, Chile, the American Middle West. Bodies … Read more

Belonging and metaphysical horror in “That Time of Year” – Chicago Review of Books

Belonging and metaphysical horror in “That Time of Year” – Chicago Review of Books

[ad_1] It’s hard to sum up Marie NDiaye’s That Time of Year (Un temps de saison, translated from French by Jordan Stump), a short novel that unfolds with a dreamlike logic. Every year Herman, a math teacher from Paris, spends the month of August with his wife Rose and their son in a small country … Read more