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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
    • 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
    • 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 , Nonfiction

    Review: A Warning to Heed and Hope to Build with Mark Larson’s Working in the 21st Century

    One of the first questions a stranger usually asks to identify who you are is, what do you do? But our job is more than how we make money, it […]

  • Caroline Huftalen
  • April 10, 2024
    • Design , Lit , Nonfiction

    Review: Celebrating Well-Made Books—The Book by Design: The Remarkable Story of the World’s Greatest Invention, edited by P.J.M. Marks and Stephen Parkin

    For more than 18 centuries, paper was made with rags—old clothes, sails, and ropes—the same way it had first been fashioned in China. But, by the 19th century, the process of […]

  • Patrick T. Reardon
  • February 17, 2024
    • Fiction , Lit , Reviews

    Review: Bewitching Hollywood Flappers and Fairies in Kathleen Rooney’s From Dust to Stardust

    At one point in Kathleen Rooney’s bewitching new novel From Dust to Stardust, the iconic Hollywood flapper Doreen O’Dare says to an interviewer, “What I’ve figured out is that the […]

  • Elizabeth Niarchos Neukirch
  • September 29, 2023
    • Events , Fiction , Interviews , Lit , Live lit events

    Toya Wolfe’s Last Summer on State Street Wins $25,000 Pattis Family Foundation Chicago Book Award

    Most readers are familiar with the more prestigious annual book prizes out there, among them the National Book Award, the Pulitzer Prize, and the PEN America Literary Awards. A new […]

  • Elizabeth Niarchos Neukirch
  • July 12, 2023
    • Fiction , Lit

    Review: Take a Seat at the Bar in Island City, by Laura Adamczyk

    When was the last time you told a story to a stranger at a bar? Not an anecdote about your day at work, or that funny internet meme that’s going […]

  • Elizabeth Niarchos Neukirch
  • April 28, 2023
    • Lit , Nonfiction

    Review: Anti-Racist and More, The Anti-Racist Writing Workshop, by Felicia Rose Chavez

    The Anti-Racist Writing Workshop: How to Decolonize the Creative Classroom by Felicia Rose Chavez Haymarket Books, 216 pages, $14.97 Chicago’s Haymarket Books promotes The Anti-Racist Writing Workshop: How to Decolonize […]

  • Patrick T. Reardon
  • April 7, 2022
    • Design , Lit , Nonfiction , Photography

    Book Review: Push Butt, Receive Bacon, Hand Dryers, by Samuel Ryde

    Hand Dryers By Samuel Ryde Unicorn Publishing Group Distributed by the University of Chicago Press Books In the appropriately senseless year of 2020, Hand Dryers, by Samuel Ryde, was published. […]

  • Dan Kelly
  • January 18, 2021
    • Lit

    Call for Chicago Lit Writers, Reviewers, and Subjects!

    If you’re interested in covering the Chicago and Midwest lit scenes, and want to promote local authors, booksellers, or publishers, contact Third Coast Review Lit Editor Dan Kelly at dan@mrdankelly.com. […]

  • Dan Kelly
  • July 6, 2020
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