Growin’ Up: A review of Guy Delisle’s Graphic Novel, “Factory Summers”
Those teenage summer jobs seem inconsequential in the context of a lifetime, …But they stay with us.
The Love of Ruins: A Review of Sevastopol by Emilio Fraia
The over-layered voices throughout the book create vast worlds that feel nearly mythic.
Blood and Booms: A Review of Charlie Newton’s Canaryville
In Canaryville, lines between criminal and hero blur beyond distinction.
Everything You Wanted to Know about DAPL But Were Too Afraid to Ask: A Review of Black Snake by Katherine Wiltenburg Todrys
Several autumns ago, nearly everyone checked in at Standing Rock, North Dakota, to support the water protectors protesting the construction of the Dakota Access Pipeline (or DAPL).
Nurture Versus Nature: A Review of Alison Hammer’s Little Pieces of Me
All the makings are there for a story that dives deeper into the relative importance of genetics in human makeup.
Between Prophecy and Poetry: A Review of Aviya Kushner’s Wolf Lamb Bomb
The poems, grounded in locations including New York, Jerusalem, Chicago and Iowa are remarkably efficient and self-contained.
Lit Top 5: June 2021
An array of virtual events, many with Pride Month themes
The Fragility of Children: A Review of Mary Kubica’s Local Woman Missing
Her characters breathe on the page, never tripping into the absurd.
Alone Together: A Review of “Among the Hedges” by Sara Mesa
The story is a simple frame, a moment in time…
The Pied Piper Is Back: A Review of Children of Chicago by Cynthia Pelayo
Chicago is a place in which possibilities abound, for those seeking to disrupt and those seeking to restore peace.
