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Review: An Elegant Tour of Great Buildings, The Story of Architecture, by Witold Rybczynski

The 1902 plan to revamp and expand the National Mall in Washington, DC, was the product of a commission of prominent Americans. Three of them worked closely together to produce […]

  • Patrick T. Reardon
  • January 24, 2025
    • Events , Fiction , Lit , Live lit events , Nonfiction

    Channeling Book Fair Nostalgia: Call & Response Books’ Grown Up Book Fair

    Many adult readers remember, with a good dose of nostalgia, the excitement and awe they felt at the annual Scholastic Book Fair. Books were trundled into the school and displayed, […]

  • Holly Smith
  • January 17, 2025
    • Chicago history , Chicago history , Lit , Nonfiction , Suburbs and exurbs

    Review: “Dark Omen Indigo,”Postmortem, by Courtney Lund O’Neil

    Brushes with fame create anecdotes; brushes with infamy leave a scar. Such is the case with author Courtney Lund O’Neil’s mother Kimberly Byers-Lund, and by extension O’Neil herself. In her […]

  • Dan Kelly
  • January 12, 2025
    • Fiction , Interviews , Lists , Lit , Nonfiction

    Best of 2024: The Third Coast Review Lit Section

    The Third Coast Review Lit section has continued to grow in its coverage of the city and region’s ongoing literary scene. Below, several of TCR’s Lit writers share their favorite […]

  • Dan Kelly
  • January 1, 2025
    • Lit , Nonfiction

    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
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