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Review: The Working Class of the Plant World, Weeds, by Nina Edwards

For eight months—September 1940 to May 1941—the German Luftwaffe conducted a ferocious bombing campaign over London and other British cities and towns. An estimated 40,000 civilians were killed and as […]

  • Patrick T. Reardon
  • December 26, 2024
    • Architecture , Chicago history , Lit , Nonfiction , Photography

    Review: They All Stand Up, Louis Sullivan: An American Architect, by Patrick F. Cannon and James Caulfield

    Can something be both overexposed and unseen? After years of black and white images of Louis Sullivan’s buildings being demolished or in the midst of eradication, we tend to think […]

  • Dan Kelly
  • December 10, 2024
    • Chicago history , Chicago history , Lit , Nonfiction

    Review: A Testament to Survival and Listening, Also Here: Love, Literacy, and the Legacy of the Holocaust, by Brooke Randel

    In 1944, at the age of 13, Brooke Randel’s grandmother Golda Indig was with her older sister in the German death camp of Auschwitz. They had been separated from the rest […]

  • Patrick T. Reardon
  • December 10, 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
    • Chicago history , Chicago history , Comedy , Lit , Nonfiction

    Review: Exploding Myths: Globetrotter: How Abe Saperstein Shook Up the World of Sports by Mark Jacob and Matthew Jacob

    We want to hear from you! Take our brief reader survey now and share your feedback on what you love at Third Coast Review—and what we could be doing better! Plus, everyone […]

  • Patrick T. Reardon
  • November 12, 2024
    • Chicago history , Lit , Nonfiction , Writing

    A Letter: To the Man with the Red Checkered Shirt, Funny Hat, and Cigar

    We want to hear from you! Take our brief reader survey now and share your feedback on what you love at Third Coast Review—and what we could be doing better! Plus, everyone […]

  • Guest Author
  • November 11, 2024
    • Chicago history , Chicago history , Lit , Nonfiction

    Review: Trying to Avoid Dystopia—Cry My Beloved America by Alexander Polikoff

    We want to hear from you! Take our brief reader survey now and share your feedback on what you love at Third Coast Review—and what we could be doing better! Plus, everyone […]

  • Patrick T. Reardon
  • November 1, 2024
    • Fiction , Lit , Nonfiction

    I Was a Teenage Featured Creature: Midwestern Horror Writers Share Recent Fictional Horrors

    We want to hear from you! Take our brief reader survey now and share your feedback on what you love at Third Coast Review—and what we could be doing better! Plus, everyone […]

  • Dan Kelly
  • October 31, 2024
    • Food , Lit , Nonfiction

    Review: Trees of Wind, Fire and Light—Pine by Laura Mason

    Here’s a thought: Somewhere in the American Southwest—the exact location is a highly guarded secret—is a Great Basin bristlecone that botanists and foresters estimate to be 4,500 years old. It […]

  • Patrick T. Reardon
  • October 24, 2024
    • Chicago history , Food , Lit , Live lit events , Nonfiction

    Review: Malört—Chicago History in a Bottle

    He had been warned. At a recent house concert in Printers Row, Pat Byrne, a soulful Irish troubadour based in Texas, bravely took a swig of the yellow liquid, scrunched […]

  • June Sawyers
  • October 11, 2024
    • Chicago history , Chicago history , Lit , Nonfiction , Suburbs and exurbs

    Review: Winning through Infrastructure—Muddy Ground: Native Peoples, Chicago’s Portage, and the Transformation of a Continent by John William Nelson

    The key moment in John William Nelson’s important, original, and eye-opening history of the place that became the city of Chicago—Muddy Ground: Native Peoples, Chicago’s Portage, and the Transformation of […]

  • Patrick T. Reardon
  • October 10, 2024
    • Dialogs , Interviews , Lit , Live Lit , Nonfiction , Stages

    Dialogs: SCOTUS Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson Shares Her New Memoir Lovely One at Chicago Humanities Festival

    Supreme Court Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson inaugurated the Chicago Humanities Festival’s autumn 2024 season in front of a packed, enthusiastic crowd at the Harris Theater for Music and Dance. In […]

  • Karin McKie
  • September 25, 2024
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