"Ypi’s own experience is narrated in the first person through a prologue, a coda, and an array of interjections." @jakegp.bsky.social's review of “Indignity” by Lea Ypi (@fsgbooks.bsky.social) is out now. chireviewofbooks.com/2025/11/14/h...

Preparing to dig into this one over the weekend.

"No matter your view on short stories, I’m here to tell you to give this one a go; Gorbunova does not disappoint." Maddie Schultz's review of “(Th)ings and (Th)oughts” by Alla Gorbunova (Deep Vellum Publishing) is out now. chireviewofbooks.com/2025/11/13/n...

"Desire, if accepted, can be a kind of freedom.." @recycledgiraffe.bsky.social's interview with I.S. Jones on her new book "Bloodmercy” (@ampoetryreview.bsky.social) is out now. chireviewofbooks.com/2025/11/13/d...

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Don't miss your chance to join us at the 2025 CHIRBy awards!! We’ll be celebrating the best in Chicago literature, journalism, and leadership and tickets are almost sold out… Grab yours today at the link below (and did we mention they're FREE??): www.storystudiochicago.org/chirby-awards/

"Even if it’s fiction, watching a famous person’s rise and inevitable fall is addicting." @meghanmcg.bsky.social's review of “Lucky Girl” by Allie Tagle-Dokus (@tinhouse.bsky.social) is out now. chireviewofbooks.com/2025/11/12/l...

Check out this essay by Shatema Threadcraft from her new book, "The Labors of Resurrection: Black Women, Necromancy, and Morrisonian Democracy" (@oxunipress.bsky.social) on the women who won’t let Chicago’s Black deaths remain invisible. chireviewofbooks.com/2025/11/12/i...

Cannot wait to read this book!

"I am drawn to the uncanny, to the ghost stories, to the ‘something’s not quite right’ stories." Tryphena Yeboah's interview with Oyinkan Braithwaite on her new book "Cursed Daughters” (@doubledaybooks.bsky.social) is out now. chireviewofbooks.com/2025/11/11/i...

"Each of these nine stories is, of course, an entity unto itself, and each is excellent in its own way." Don Evans's review of “The Plan of Chicago” by Barry Pearce (Cornerstone Press) is out now. chireviewofbooks.com/2025/11/11/o...

Check out a special piece on the site today on the new adaptation of the Denis Johnson novella "Train Dreams" by @ashhatz.bsky.social. chireviewofbooks.com/2025/11/10/t...

"The teacher holds a spot of intrigue in the literary canon and among the folklore in the upcoming reissue of the 1998 classic." Mia Rhee's review of “The Bridegroom Was a Dog” by Yoko Tawada (@ndbooks.bsky.social) is out now. chireviewofbooks.com/2025/11/10/m...

Thank you SO MUCH to everyone who reached out with kind words regarding our MacArthur Grant announcement. Our hearts are full and we're motivated as hell to make good on this huge privilege. LET'S GO!!!!

We've had a pretty big week over here -- catch up on everything with our newsletter: ✍️ Our MacArthur Grant ✍️ Winter Term Launch ✍️ One week left now for Book In A Year applications Read here: buff.ly/g2a5pel #writingcommunity

"A modern search for meaning, but also an escape from the oppressive logic of power." Joe Stanek's review of “False War” by Carlos Manuel Álvarez (@graywolfpress.bsky.social) is out now. chireviewofbooks.com/2025/11/07/c...

I wrote this a year ago today, the morning after the election. Too easy to predict where we'd end up. What will spring us from this mess of our own making? No crystal ball is required either. Thank you, @chicagorevbooks.bsky.social, for publishing this last year! chireviewofbooks.com/2024/11/14/b...

Please read this wonderful interview with @chicagorevbooks.bsky.social managing director, @rachellayown.bsky.social -- the editor of a new book titled The Rockford Anthology. chireviewofbooks.com/2025/11/06/t...

We are so very thrilled about this and always incredibly proud to be a part of the Stories Matter Foundation!!! 🥳

"It was my goal to capture Rockford as it really is: flawed, yes, but full of strengths, too." @recycledgiraffe.bsky.social's interview with @rachellayown.bsky.social on editing the "The Rockford Anthology” (@beltpublishing.bsky.social) is out now. chireviewofbooks.com/2025/11/06/t...

"Everyone is realizing...they will have to do more than sell books to make it in the book business." Ariana Valderrama's interview with Char Adams on her book "Black Owned” (Tiny Reparations Books) is out now. chireviewofbooks.com/2025/11/06/m...

Happy Pub Day to our wonderful instructor @finejuli.bsky.social! Writing as Margaux Eliot, her novel HONEYMOON STAGE is out today. Smash that order button! buff.ly/zNsDAFY

This winter I’m teaching Creative Writing Essentials at StoryStudio Chicago! Please join me! We’ll talk about all things writing 😊

for the @chicagorevbooks.bsky.social I had the opportunity to interview Anika Jade Levy whose debut novel FLAT EARTH had me wincing and laughing all throughout @catapultbooks.bsky.social chireviewofbooks.com/2025/11/05/l...

"The book is about living inside collapse—social, romantic, spiritual—and realizing that irony and sincerity have to coexist if you want to survive." Out now: @ansonjtong.com's interview w/ Anika Jade Levy on her book "Flat Earth” (@catapultbooks.bsky.social). chireviewofbooks.com/2025/11/05/l...

"Crafted, often exquisitely so, and full of rewards for the patient reader." @yfbpodcast.bsky.social's review of “The Land in Winter” by Andrew Miller (@europaeditions.bsky.social) is out now. chireviewofbooks.com/2025/11/05/t...

This interview was *the most* fun. So is the book!

"A refreshing look at what it takes to succeed in the restaurant business." @ianmacallen.bsky.social's review of “The Bottomless Cup” by Kevin Boehm (Abrams Press) is out now. chireviewofbooks.com/2025/11/04/t...

This is a wonderful piece about a wonderful novel! A little birdie tells me there will also be an interview with Julia coming out in @chicagorevbooks.bsky.social tomorrow... bookshop.org/a/318/978166...

"Do we feel better about ourselves and the fact that we are not billionaires, because we can sit here making fun of them?" @finejuli.bsky.social (Margaux Eliot)'s interview with @awolfson.bsky.social on her new book "Honeymoon Stage” (Little A) is out now. chireviewofbooks.com/2025/11/04/i...

One of the most articles of reviews at @chicagorevbooks.bsky.social, my review of The Irish Goodbye. chireviewofbooks.com/2025/10/03/f...

November's must-read list includes, according to our EIC @mbwwelch.bsky.social's a destined-to-be Chicago classic, exciting works in translation, and a number of emotional tour-de-forces. chireviewofbooks.com/2025/11/03/1...

"Bacon sets out to unravel the enduring mystery of how a 729-foot freighter and its 29-man crew became a 'bone to be chewed.'" Stephen Nathans-Kelly's review of “The Gales of November” by John U. Bacon (@liveright.bsky.social) is out now. chireviewofbooks.com/2025/11/03/t...

#Writers! What advice do you have for other writers for achieving that ever-elusive "flow state"? We want to know -- give us your best tips!

"We’re following our hearts and minds...finding a balance so we don’t inadvertently publish titles that are too similar.” Out now: @rachellayown.bsky.social's interview with @allisonwoodnutt.bsky.social of Smith & Taylor Classics at @unnamedpress.bsky.social. chireviewofbooks.com/2025/10/31/i...

“[…] Séraphine gradually questions her husband and ultimately her future in a place that proves hostile to their survival.” In @chicagorevbooks.bsky.social‬‬, Joe Stanek reviews Mathieu Belezi’s newly translated novel, “Attacking Earth and Sun” - chireviewofbooks.com/2025/10/27/v...

Stories Matter Foundation, through StoryStudio Chicago, The Chicago Stories Project, and the Chicago Review of Books, stands in solidarity with immigrant communities in Chicago and beyond. Please read the statement written by @storystudiochicago.bsky.social. chireviewofbooks.com/2025/10/30/s...

We are always very proud to be a part of the Stories Matter Foundation, but today especially.

"Gentle musings on what it means to be a mother, a daughter, or simply a woman in a political world." Megan Otto's review of “Spellbound” by Georgia Leighton (@grandcentralpub.bsky.social) is out now. chireviewofbooks.com/2025/10/29/s...

"Rossi’s practiced, expository style unearths the roots of eugenics in the United States." Max Gray's review of “Capturing Kahanamoku” by Michael Rossi (@harperonebooks.bsky.social) is out now. chireviewofbooks.com/2025/10/29/a...

"A hopeful exploration of what it means to care for one another...honest, entertaining, heart-wrenching, and dripping with empathy." @angieraney.bsky.social's review of “The Book of Kin” by Jennifer Eli Bowen (@milkweededitions.bsky.social) is out now. chireviewofbooks.com/2025/10/28/c...

"The novel is less about what 'really' happened than about how violence and art echo through fractured lives." Olivia Zimberoff's review of “The Devil Is a Southpaw” by Brandon Hobson (@eccobooks.bsky.social) is out now. chireviewofbooks.com/2025/10/28/t...

"Belezi prods this dark period of French history with care, prompting questions about how France will choose to teach its children about Algeria." Joe Stanek's review of “Attacking Earth and Sun” by Mathieu Belezi (Other Press) is out now. chireviewofbooks.com/2025/10/27/v...

"What I can tell you, clearly and unambiguously, is that it is not always an easy matter to settle on what is true." @rachellayown.bsky.social's interview with @dianejosefowicz.bsky.social on her new book "Guardians & Saints” (Cornerstone Press) is out now. chireviewofbooks.com/2025/10/24/t...

“We live within systems of authority and networks of power that don’t necessarily serve us, and we have to figure out how to maneuver through them.” Out now: Rowan Beaird's interview with @meghamaj.bsky.social on "A Guardian and a Thief” (@aaknopf.bsky.social). chireviewofbooks.com/2025/10/23/m...

"[The book] helps us see the nuance of midlife with a pervasive, infectious optimism." @yfbpodcast.bsky.social's review of “Intemperance” by Sonora Jha (HarperVia) is out now. chireviewofbooks.com/2025/10/23/t...

"Historical fiction is always an exercise of retrospection, of coming from the future." @reemasabrina.bsky.social's interview with @wenyilee.bsky.social on her new book "When They Burned the Butterfly” (@torbooks.bsky.social) is out now. chireviewofbooks.com/2025/10/22/w...

"While the essays may be read on their own, the depth of the collection stems from the twine running through each of them together." Mia Rhee's review of “Uncanny Valley Girls” by Zefyr Lisowski (@harperperennial.bsky.social) is out now. chireviewofbooks.com/2025/10/22/u...

"It’s mind-expanding to indulge in stories outside of our perspective, whether the differences are cultural, mystical, or moral.” Out now: @rachellenarobbins.bsky.social's interview w/ Caroline Macon Fleischer on “A Play About a Curse” (@clashbooks.bsky.social). chireviewofbooks.com/2025/10/21/g...

"Funny, psychologically astute, and full of sharp imagery." @rubyprosenthal.bsky.social's review of “Crawl” by Max Delsohn (@graywolfpress.bsky.social) is out now. chireviewofbooks.com/2025/10/21/w...