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La Dolce Vita: “The Morning Line” by David Lehman

  • by Another Chicago Magazine
  • Posted on May 31, 2022May 30, 2022

“Lehman has claimed a kinship with poets of the past that exists outside time,” writes reviewer Suzanne Lummis.
(poetry reviews)

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Review: “Madder: A Memoir In Weeds” by Marco Wilkinson

  • by Another Chicago Magazine
  • Posted on February 3, 2022February 4, 2022

“Wilkinson’s knowledge of horticulture helps to connect the themes of family, inheritance, and existence to the greater world around us, to all living things,” writes reviewer Meredith Boe.
(nonfiction)

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  • Nonfiction

Review: Seeing MAD: Essays on Mad Magazine’s Humor and Legacy

  • by Another Chicago Magazine
  • Posted on October 26, 2021March 9, 2022

In a sense, post-truth and post-Trump, MAD’s cynically absurd reality has replaced our “reality-based” world. Its outsider and jaundiced view of media, institutions, and those who’ve “made it,” has become de rigueur in American culture.
(nonfiction)

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Brooding, Obsessing, and Drawing: “My Begging Chart” by Keiler Roberts

  • by Another Chicago Magazine
  • Posted on June 10, 2021July 7, 2021

“Roberts has described her work as “vignettes of meaningless experiences,” but this meandering, nonlinear work feels honest in its making mountains out of molehills” write reviewers Nora Hickey and Amaris Feland Ketcham.
(graphic nonfiction review)

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Review: “In Memory of Memory” by Maria Stepanova, translated from the Russian by Sasha Dugdale

  • by Another Chicago Magazine
  • Posted on May 25, 2021July 22, 2021

“In Stepanova’s voyage there is life and death, silence and narrative, memory and oblivion” writes reviewer Marek Makowski.
(fiction review)

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The Home Front: “Retrieval” by Gail Hosking

  • by Another Chicago Magazine
  • Posted on February 25, 2021February 25, 2021

“Hosking writes about her father,” says reviewer Catherine Faurot, “but his presence is felt more as a fading afterimage, a hole in the film burning incandescently.”
(poetry review)

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  • Poetry

May The Ghosts Forgive Us: A Review of Ray Gonzalez’s “Feel Puma”

  • by Another Chicago Magazine
  • Posted on February 2, 2021February 21, 2021

“Ghost poems of a haunted landscape, told in almost hypnotic lyricism, somehow bleed seamlessly into haunted writers and artists suffering in landscapes far from the West,” writes Sadie Hoagland.
(poetry reviews)

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  • Reviews

The Scars of Time: “The Nail in the Tree” by Carol Ann Davis

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  • Posted on January 5, 2021February 16, 2021

“Carol Ann Davis makes us ache in these essays and lets the quiet moments explode within our hearts,” writes reviewer S.T. Brant.
(nonfiction reviews)

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  • Reviews

If They Only Knew: “Odes to Lithium” by Shira Erlichman

  • by Another Chicago Magazine
  • Posted on November 11, 2020February 16, 2021

“Mental illness is not trivial, not something that should be easy to write or read or talk about, and it’s important that she included elements . . . that might come off as excessive or overwhelming,” writes reviewer Hannah Page.
(poetry review)

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  • Reviews

Technology in a Time of Art: “Stardust Media” by Christina Pugh

  • by Another Chicago Magazine
  • Posted on October 28, 2020February 16, 2021

“The poet’s love-hate relationship with her laptop becomes fully realized in ‘Off the Web,’ as too much time on the internet leads to feeling ‘my dress / gather headwinds and swirl, then lift
like / Marilyn’s over a grate,'” writes Richard Holinger.
(review)

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“The Kids Are All Left”: Out of the Democratic Party

  • by Another Chicago Magazine
  • Posted on October 21, 2020February 16, 2021

“Faris’s book warns Republicans of their party’s coming apocalypse, but I think the Democratic Party should take note too,” writes Nick Rueth.
(reviews)

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  • Reviews

“Un-American” by Hafizah Geter

  • by Another Chicago Magazine
  • Posted on October 14, 2020February 16, 2021

“Geter’s lines don’t so much hum as slice, visually cutting into the page like claws digging for answers in a ground that will not give,” writes reviewer Phillip B. Williams.
(review)

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  • Reviews

The Internet Killed the Video Star: On Masha Tupitsyn’s “Picture Cycle”

  • by Another Chicago Magazine
  • Posted on October 7, 2020February 21, 2021

“People are not who they once were but actors in the great drama of life, informed by what they have seen on the screen,” writes Peter Valente.
(review)

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  • Reviews

“Guerrilla Girls: The Art of Behaving Badly” by the Guerrilla Girls

  • by Another Chicago Magazine
  • Posted on September 30, 2020February 17, 2021

“How and where women and minority groups get the shaft is only half of the lesson this book imparts,” writes Bean Gilsdorf.
(review)

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  • Reviews

“In Search of Structure: Reflections on Form in Four Recent Book-Length Essays” by Amy Hassinger

  • by Another Chicago Magazine
  • Posted on August 17, 2020March 2, 2021

“Every book, like every child, stems from multiple ancestral lines. Fruitful books sprout new lines, branching into new familial territories,” writes Amy Hassinger.
(review)

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  • Reviews

“neckbone: visual verses” by avery r. young

  • by Another Chicago Magazine
  • Posted on May 11, 2020February 16, 2021

Reviewer Mike Puican writes, “‘neckbone’ is a wild, go-anywhere ride that welcomes all readers, black and non-black, to climb in, buckle up, and hang on tight.”
(review)

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  • Reviews

“The Classroom” by Dana Diehl and Melissa Goodrich

  • by Another Chicago Magazine
  • Posted on February 11, 2020February 16, 2021

“Diehl and Goodrich bypass the tedium of lesson preparations to make their school settings deliciously weird,” Jason Teal writes.
(review)

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  • Reviews

Re-reading “The Sparrow” by Mary Doria Russell

  • by Another Chicago Magazine
  • Posted on January 28, 2020February 16, 2021

“The most fantastic element of the book isn’t the religion or the space travel but the way people behave,” Alder Fern writes.
(review)

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