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Review: No Names by Greg Hewett Is Just Plain Lazy

Some debut novels confidently announce a fresh, fully realized voice. Others are a little uneven and wear their amateurishness obviously. I’m afraid Greg Hewett’s debut No Names belongs to the […]

  • Adam Kaz
  • April 5, 2025
    • Essays , Lit , Nonfiction , Poetry , Reviews

    Review: Learning to Love the Feel of Words in The Braille Encyclopedia

    Cover image of The Braille Encyclopedia by Naomi Cohn. A taupe background with the title in all caps and braille characters beneath each letter.

    “I grew up in a nest feathered with words, texts, and books,” Naomi Cohn writes in the first essay of her lyrical debut memoir, The Braille Encyclopedia: Brief Essays on […]

  • Elizabeth Niarchos Neukirch
  • March 2, 2025
    • Beyond , Lit , Reviews , Soapbox

    Essay: Reading in Public and My Review of The Vegetarian, a Book That Started Conversations

    Now through December 31, Third Coast Review is raising money to support the diverse roster of writers you know and appreciate for their thoughtful, insightful arts and culture coverage in Chicago and beyond. […]

  • Nancy S Bishop
  • December 6, 2024
    • Chicago history , Lit , Nonfiction , Photography , Reviews

    Review: Take a Vulgar Picture, Vivian Maier Developed, by Ann Marks

    Vivian Maier snapped pictures of a thousand other lives while making the lightest impression on life herself. In her biography Vivian Maier Developed: The Untold Story of the Photographer Nanny, […]

  • Dan Kelly
  • December 2, 2024
    • Fiction , Lit , Reviews , Short Stories

    Review: Crawling into Puloma Ghosh’s Mouth

    Puloma Ghosh takes full advantage of the mouth’s symbolic potential in Mouth, a debut collection of weird, subversive stories. These horror and horror-adjacent stories are about women, identity, relationships, and […]

  • Allison Manley
  • November 13, 2024
    • Lit , Reviews

    Review: Iliana Regan’s Fieldwork Digs Down to the Root

    Iliana Regan is a Michelin-starred chef and owner of Milkweed Inn deep in the Hiawatha Forest. Regan’s memoir, Fieldwork, recently celebrated its paperback release. It couldn’t have come at a […]

  • Caroline Huftalen
  • June 24, 2024
    • Event , Events , Fiction , Lit , Live lit events , Reviews

    Review: The Body Keeps Score in A Small Apocalypse by Laura Chow Reeve 

    Laura Chow Reeve’s debut short story collection A Small Apocalypse is, like any good collection these days, thematically rich. It is mostly about young queer characters in the present day, […]

  • Allison Manley
  • June 18, 2024
    • Lit , Reviews

    Review: A Dazzling Debut—The Divorcées, by Rowan Beaird

    The Divorcees by Rowan Beaird

    No-fault divorces are currently legal in every US state, making it relatively easy to end an unhappy marriage. It may be hard to imagine how recently “irreconcilable differences” were not […]

  • Elizabeth Niarchos Neukirch
  • May 8, 2024
    • Lit , Reviews

    Review: Midwest Gumption Is Jane Bertch’s Pivotal Component in The French Ingredient

    No mise en place necessary for Jane Bertch. The born and raised Chicagoan turned Parisian details how she went from her meat and potatoes Midwest upbringing, working toward a career […]

  • Caroline Huftalen
  • May 1, 2024
    • Lit , Nonfiction , Reviews

    Review: The Lies of the Land Is a Lopsided But Informative Read

    Like many history books, Steven Conn’s The Lies of the Land: Seeing Rural America For What It Is—And Isn’t is a showcase of and argument for nuanced thinking. In his […]

  • Adam Kaz
  • April 1, 2024
    • Chicago history , Comics and Graphic Novels , Lit , Nonfiction , Reviews

    Review: “A Repugnant Purity”: Al Capone, by Pierre-Francois Radice and Swann Meralli

    Chicago is best known for its transplants. Our biggest celebrities come to a pocketful of names—most from elsewhere, but now synonymous with the Windy City. Much like Oprah, Michael, Ditka, […]

  • Dan Kelly
  • February 13, 2024
    • Chicago history , Lit , Nonfiction , Reviews

    Review: The Lost Subways of North America: A Cartographic Guide to the Past, Present, and What Might Have Been, by Jake Berman

    From Atlanta to Washington, DC, Boston to Vancouver, Los Angeles to Miami, Montreal to Toronto, cartographer and writer Jake Berman explores the failures and successes of North American transport through […]

  • June Sawyers
  • January 26, 2024
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