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, ...

One of the literary events of the year arrives this October: The long-awaited follow-up to The Time Traveler’s Wife from Chicago legend Audrey Niffenegger! Life Out of Order takes readers to the ...

Hernan Diaz has never drawn from the same well twice. Or so it seems to the reader, who marvels at his increasingly varied output. This includes the Western setting of In the Distance, the ...

Zach Cregger (Barbarian, Weapons) returns with his third feature, Resident Evil, adapting the iconic video game series in a way that only he can. Instead of rehashing the well-worn and thoroughly ...

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 ...