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Review: A Mythic and Intimate Tragedy, Billy Budd, Sailor (An Inside Narrative), by Herman Melville, Illustrated by Barry Moser

Herman Melville’s novella Billy Budd, Sailor (An Inside Narrative) is both mythic and intimate. So, too, are the woodcuts Barry Moser created for the centennial edition from the University of […]

  • Patrick T. Reardon
  • November 18, 2025
    • Dialogs , Fiction , Lit , Live lit events

    Dialogs: Rushdie’s Return to Fiction—Bopping Until He Drops

    He wore a black patch over his right eye while the other eye, the good eye, looked out towards the standing room only audience. Salman Rushdie wasted no time in […]

  • June Sawyers
  • November 17, 2025
    • Cafes and restaurants , Chicago history , Chicago history , Fiction , Lit , Short Stories

    Review: A Unique, Grassroots Biography of Chicago, The Plan of Chicago: A City in Stories by Barry Pearce

    One of the many fascinating things about a city like Chicago is how the lives of millions of strangers are unknowingly intertwined. Barry Pearce gets at this in a savvy […]

  • Patrick T. Reardon
  • November 14, 2025
    • Fiction , Lit , Reviews

    Review: The Fracturedness of a Life, Simone in Pieces by Janet Burroway

    Simone Lerrante is 70 years old. It is the year 2000, and she is ruminating as she looks at the panes of a large Florida window near the bed of […]

  • Patrick T. Reardon
  • November 4, 2025
    • Fiction , Lists , Lit

    Horror Stories: Abbott and Costello Meet the Crazy Mixed-Up Featured Creatures from Planet X

    Welcome to the sixth installment of Third Coast Review’s Featured Creatures, in which we ask Midwestern horror authors to recommend writers, artists, musicians, and stories that deserve more attention. Find […]

  • Dan Kelly
  • October 31, 2025
    • Fiction , Interviews , Lit , Nonfiction

    Interview: Becky Siegel Spratford’s New Anthology Asks Horror Authors Why They Love Their Genre

    Horror authors are often asked where they get all their wonderful, horrible ideas, but rarely why they get them. Librarian Becky Siegel Spratford wondered about this herself. Since 2007, she’s […]

  • Dan Kelly
  • October 30, 2025
    • Fiction , Lit , Reviews

    Review: Monsters Loom but Heart Prevails in Christina Henry’s Latest Release The Place Where They Buried Your Heart

    Christina Henry’s latest release, The Place Where They Buried Your Heart, is for more than just horror fans. It’s a story of redemption. The book is a David and Goliath […]

  • Caroline Huftalen
  • October 30, 2025
    • Dialogs , Events , Fiction , Lit , Live lit events

    Dialogs: Apers vs. Woo: Giano Cromley’s American Mythology Event at the Seminary Co-Op

    While author Giano Cromley currently lives on the Southside of Chicago and teaches as an English professor at Kennedy-King College, he was born in Montana and is a certified wildlife […]

  • Holly Smith
  • October 29, 2025
    • Dialogs , Events , Fiction , Lit , Live lit events , Writing

    Dialogs: Just an Emotion—Horror Writing and Religion at the American Writers Museum

    The American Writers Museum (AWM)’s exhibit American Prophets: Writers, Religion, and Culture will look “through the pages of American history to explore the influence of religion and spirituality on writers […]

  • Holly Smith
  • October 26, 2025
    • Chicago history , Children's books , Fiction , Lit , Suburbs and exurbs

    Review: Just Imagine: Leaf Town Forever, by Kathleen Rooney and Beth Rooney, Illustrated by Betsy Bowen

    The 8-year-old inside me perked up early in my reading of Leaf Town Forever when two friends are hired by Lucinda at the Treasure Shop to search for treasures, such […]

  • Patrick T. Reardon
  • October 14, 2025
    • Children's books , Comics and Graphic Novels , Essays , Fiction , Lists , Lit , Nonfiction , Short Stories , Writing

    Banned Books Week: Writers Recall the “Forbidden” Books of Their Youth

    It’s Banned Books Week, and while it’s not a week to celebrate, per se, it’s one to faithfully observe. Those who would ban books offer different reasons for their desire […]

  • Dan Kelly
  • October 6, 2025
    • Chicago history , Children's books , Comics and Graphic Novels , Fantasy , Fiction , Front page , Interviews , Lists , Lit , Nonfiction

    Words of Survival: Chicago Bookstores Respond to COVID and Book Bans

    This is the third in our series of articles on The Art of Survival, in which we explore how small Chicago arts organizations are surviving post-COVID and weathering the anti-humanist and anti-diversity […]

  • Karin McKie
  • September 30, 2025
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