Chicago Review of Books

I connected with Yu-Mei online last year as we both are members of Grubstreet, where she teaches writing workshops. We spoke about our upcoming novels, the writing, and the publication process. Yu-mei is a Singaporean author, living in Boston where she first worked as a bookseller at Papercuts Bookshop. Her short fiction has received a Pushcart Prize special mention and been ...

Stevie has a found family—it may be fake, but that’s only because it started as a TV sitcom. In real life, it’s worse.

In the LA of Pool House, Mary H.K. Choi’s adult debut, Wabi-Sabi was a much-loved show starring Mac as Moon’s husba...

Critics in Conversation is a new “podcast on the page” feature in which contributors discuss a book or issue currently making headlines in the literary world.

Literary prizes aren’t like sports—it would be a mis-categorization to call a novel winning the Pulitzer an “upset.” But friends, we are here to tell you that Daniel Kraus’s <...

In a nineteenth-century land haunted by the fatal spectre of tuberculosis (“consumption” as it was then known), a young Rhode Island cleric falls prey one night to a neighbor’s fleshly seduction. An often-absent, mysterious woman, she will hold an eerie power over his fervid imagination for years to come: Stutley Tillinghast becomes a vampire (though, later, he is careful nev...

In the striking mountainous region of the Italian Alps, a woman exists with a quiet rigor, fleeing a past that she fears may catch up to her, and wandering ever further into the beckoning wood. Thus is the premise of Kathryn Bromwich’s