Renowned poet and artist Layli Long Soldier follows up her award-winning collection, Whereas, with a complex new collection that challenges the conventions of genre. We continues Long Soldier’s ...

Life Out of Order is the long-awaited sequel to Audrey Niffenegger’s 2003 bestselling debut novel, The Time Traveler’s Wife. The story follows Alba DeTamble, daughter of the previous novel’s ...

I have often felt shame looking for work. Two layoffs in the last two years will do that. I know many have felt this, especially if you have degrees and work experience: You’re willing to work; ready ...

The Bimbo Summit, BBLs, and Balenciaga are, at first glance, a wide variety of topics, but in MJ Corey’s debut book, Dekonstructing the Kardashians, they all play a crucial role in her media ...

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Twenty years ago, the members of a reclusive commune outside Philadelphia vanished without a trace. The mystery of their disappearance has never been solved. No sightings of the members were ever ...

The Translator’s Voice is a monthly column from Ian J. Battaglia here at the Chicago Review of Books, dedicated to global literature and the translators who work tirelessly and too often thanklessly ...

One of the hardest things to learn as an adult person is what’s your stuff and what’s someone else’s. Rose Cutler is a woman who acts like everything is her stuff, bossing around everyone in her life.

The Translator’s Voice is a column from Ian J. Battaglia at the Chicago Review of Books, dedicated to global literature and the translators who work tirelessly and too often thanklessly to bring these ...

Early in Claudia Rankine’s Don’t Let Me Be Lonely: An American Lyric, the narrator recalls a conversation with a friend who was dying of cancer. They discussed the films Boogie Nights and Magnolia at ...

Like much of previous work, Russo's new novel is characterized by a "unerring, deep sense of place." Richard Russo’s new novel, Under the Falls, should strike his longtime readers as both a departure ...

An interview with Joseph Osmundson about his new memoir, "Spawning Season: An Experiment in Queer Parenthood." There are lots of parenting books, and fewer queer parenting books. But I’m hard-pressed ...