Needlemouth, K-Ming Chang’s latest novel, is disturbing, uncanny, oppressive, and heavy. Young Cindy is at her grandmother’s house for the summer, accompanied by her cousins Mandy and Yangyang. Yet ...

An interview with Marlon James about his new novel, "The Disappearers" It’s been wild. The response to the book has been so massive and tremendous, and I’ve just been on the road. I was in South ...

Our review of Jane Schoenbrun's new book, "Public Access Afterworld." In the novel’s prologue, the unnamed first-person narrator explains, “This book is not my own.” It is, itself, a TV show, ...

On the morning of October 21, Publishers Lunch announced that Catapult Books was being sold and would wind down operations by the end of the month. According to the Catapult Union, the company ...

If you took Classics 101 in undergrad, or if you’ve visited a Western art museum recently, The Rape of the Sabine Women might ring a bell. But you might be a little fuzzy on the details. After all, ...

Have you ever finished someone’s sentence, or voiced a thought that, to you, felt so singular, only to have the friend you’re talking to say, “I was just thinking the same thing!” The flurry of relief ...

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 ...

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Our review of Jennifer Higgie's new novel, "Bedlam." In 1842, the twenty-five-year-old English artist Richard Dadd and his older patron, Sir Thomas Phillips, set out on a journey through Europe, Syria ...

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 ...

Nightjar by Emily Ruskovich is a collection of five short stories, distinctly eerie and beautifully written, with Ruskovich circling questions about knowing and unknowingly keeping secrets from the ...