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12 Must-Read Books of December 2023

Happy holidays from the Chicago Review of Books! Like most things, book releases tend to…

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by Michael Welch
  • December 1, 2023
  • 6 mins Read
Interviews
Mother, Daughter, Lover: A Conversation with Sarah Blakley-Cartwright about “Alice Sadie Celine”

Sadie and Alice have been best friends since high school and now live on opposite…

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by Jenny Bartoy
  • November 30, 2023
  • 10 mins Read
Reviews
“Wings of Red”: An Education

Our review of James W. Jennings’s debut novel, “Wings of Red”

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by Gianni Washington
  • November 30, 2023
  • 3 mins Read
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5 Questions for the 2023 CHIRBy Awards Finalists, Part I

In anticipation of the 2023 Chicago Review of Books (CHIRBy) Awards ceremony, we asked our…

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by Editorial Staff
  • November 29, 2023
  • 3 mins Read
Reviews
Looking Through History: A Review of Zahra Hankir’s “Eyeliner”

Walk into any pharmacy in America and you can find eyeliner. That’s true of any…

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by Ian MacAllen
  • November 29, 2023
  • 4 mins Read
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Life During an Uncertain Spring in “The Vulnerables”

An interview with Sigrid Nunez about her new book, “The Vulnerables.”

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by Mandana Chaffa
  • November 28, 2023
  • 8 mins Read
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Finding Freedom and Connection in “absolute animal”

Our review of Rachel DeWoskin’s new poetry collection, “absolute animal.”

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by Meredith Boe
  • November 27, 2023
  • 4 mins Read
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The Prescience of Alba De Céspedes’s “Her Side of The Story”

In 1948, Alba de Céspedes wrote to her friend, the acclaimed writer Natalia Ginzburg, of…

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by margarita diaz
  • November 24, 2023
  • 5 mins Read
Interviews
Stories Ad Infinitum: An Interview with Zuska Kepplová on “The Moon in Foil”

An interview with Zuska Kepplová on the translation of her debut novel, “The Moon in Foil”

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by Monika Dziamka
  • November 22, 2023
  • 5 mins Read
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The Conceit of Utopia: A Conversation with Gabriel Bump

Gabriel Bump has always exuded hopefulness in his writing. The young narrator of his debut…

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by Michael Welch
  • November 21, 2023
  • 8 mins Read

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