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 ...

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 ...

The Bank Robbery That Dramatized Gay Liberation: An Interview with Matthew Prigge on “Dog’s Day” ...

“There are so many reasons to cherish the Chicago Review of Books for its work in the world, for the conversations it facilitates and the questions it explores and the writers it supports. At the ...

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Twenty years ago, the members of a reclusive commune outside Philadelphia vanished without a trace. The mystery of their disappearance has never been solved. No sightings of the members were ever ...

I just completed my ninth novel, the first volume in the Adventures of Jonathan Lambshead series, working title “I am Squishy” (that will change, I’m sure). I’m also working on the tenth novel of my ...

An interview with Joseph Osmundson about his new memoir, "Spawning Season: An Experiment in Queer Parenthood." There are lots of parenting books, and fewer queer parenting books. But I’m hard-pressed ...