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, ...
July 15, 2026 10 mins Read Features ...
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 ...
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 ...
Critics in Conversation is a “podcast on the page” feature in which contributors discuss a book or issue currently making headlines in the literary world. Read our piece on Angel Down here and ...
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.
The 250th anniversary year of the United States Declaration of Independence puts one in a frame of mind to reflect on what we consider American values. For some, those values include hard work, ...
Following the acclaimed arrival of her English translation debut, The Remembered Soldier, a National Book Award finalist, Anjet Daanje’s latest novel, The Song of the Stork and Dromedary, is yet ...
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 ...
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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