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 ...

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 ...

1992, the Dominican Republic. The dictatorship of Joaquin Balaguer is slowly waning, but the years of political imprisonment, torture, and deaths under his reign are still felt across the country.

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 ...

Blurring the line between fact and fiction has become ever more relevant in an era of artificially hallucinated images and alternative facts. But there is a long tradition of tapping real events for ...

Cool Machine is the final installment of Colson Whitehead’s Harlem Trilogy heist. This series portrays the reckoning of career criminals who can’t turn off their thieving instincts. Whitehead ...

Trouble runs ocean-deep in the lives of Milly and Val. In Naima Coster’s fifth novel, Take What You Can, the story spans a year in the lives of the two best friends and soon-to-be mothers, Valerie ...

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 ...

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 ...

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Sigrid Nunez is such a fixture in American fiction that it’s hard to imagine someone not closely encountering any of her nine novels, which have earned her a National Book Award, a Whiting Award, and ...

We first meet Lucy, the bright (but sometimes misguided) narrator of Emeline Atwood’s debut novel A Real Animal, dangerously high up in the branches of an oak tree on her New England college campus.