The Chicago Review of Books is proud to announce the shortlist for the 2026 Chicago Review of Books (CHIRBy) Awards! Since 2016, the CHIRBy Awards have honored the best fiction, nonfiction, poetry, ...

Matthew Prigge is an author and librarian at Marquette University in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. He has written several books, including Outlaws, Rebels, & Vixens, which was made into a feature-length ...

Education is supposed to be a path toward a better life. But what happens when the path becomes so competitive, expensive, and unforgiving that the pursuit of that better life begins to consume the ...

The Tale Becomes the Story: Michael Gorra’s “The Storytellers” by Robert Minto September 21, 2026 4 mins Read ...

Our review of Michael Gorra's new survey of 19th-century short fiction, "The Storytellers." The 19th-century tale is an altogether different beast than the modern literary short story—different in ...

We accept pitches for reviews & interviews typically two months in advance of a book’s publication date. On average, our reviews run between 600 and 800 words and our interviews run between 1,200 and ...

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 ...

On April 28, 2026, 600 employees at Hachette Book Group—the Big Five publisher that includes imprints such as Little, Brown and Company, Algonquin, Grand Central Publishing, and more—announced the ...

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 ...

An interview with Adrian Matejka about his new book, "Be Easy: New and Selected Poems." It’s hard not to hear Adrian Matejka’s name these days in the poetry world. An incredibly talented and connected ...

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 ...

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 ...