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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
    • 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 , Museums , Nonfiction , Parks and zoos , Suburbs and exurbs

    Review: 100 Things to Do in Illinois Before You Die, by Melanie Holmes

    Everyone knows they’ll die, but few people believe it. For the sole species aware of its mortality, personal nonexistence is inconceivable. Many have come near death. A number of folks […]

  • Dan Kelly
  • April 18, 2024
    • Chicago history , Chicago history , Lit , Nonfiction , Suburbs and exurbs

    Review: Maps and Martyrs, Encounters in the New World: Jesuit Cartography of the Americas, by Mirela Altic

    A strikingly drawn and boldly colored map, attributed to the Jesuit priest and explorer Jean de Brebeuf, is the image used on the cover of Mirela Altic’s Encounters in the […]

  • Patrick T. Reardon
  • March 14, 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
    • 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 , Chicago history , Lit , Nonfiction

    Review: Washington, Daley, and Three Other Mayors, Chicago’s Modern Mayors, edited by Dick Simpson and Betty O’Shaughnessy

    Chicago’s Modern Mayors, edited by Dick Simpson and Betty O’Shaughnessy, covers a 40-year period during which Chicago, its people, and its region went through great changes under a succession of […]

  • Patrick T. Reardon
  • January 20, 2024
    • Events , Interviews , Lit , Nonfiction

    Interview: Columnist Georgia Garvey on Her Greek Heritage and New Book, Everything Is Going to Be Okay (Until It’s Not)

    Cover of Everything Is Going to Be Okay (Until It's Not) by Georgia Garvey

    The phrase “it’s all Greek to me” is often used to refer to complicated things people cannot understand. Yet for award-winning columnist and former Chicago Tribune editor Georgia Garvey, her […]

  • Elizabeth Niarchos Neukirch
  • January 17, 2024
    • Comics and Graphic Novels , Events , Interviews , Lit , Live lit events , Music , Nonfiction

    Review: Something Out of Nothing—New Book Shares the History and Images of Garage Rock Label Estrus Records

    Chris Coyle and designer Scott Sugiuchi will attend a book release party at Quimby’s Bookstore (1854 W North Ave) on Saturday, October 21, beginning at 1 p.m. Another party takes […]

  • Dan Kelly
  • October 21, 2023
    • Essays , Events , Fiction , Lit , Nonfiction , Poetry

    Shortlist Announced for 2023 Chicago Review of Books Awards

    The 2023 Chicago Review of Books Awards shortlist includes literary works ranging in subject matter from queer motherhood to belonging and migration, Chicago’s Black cowboy culture, and women’s overlooked heroism during World War II.

  • Elizabeth Niarchos Neukirch
  • October 20, 2023
    • Chicago history , Events , Food , Lit , Live lit events , Nonfiction , Recipes

    Review: Consuming My Religion: Holy Food, by Christina Ward

    No matter how busy they were creating the universe, some gods always found time to lay down the law on what their worshippers should eat. Diets and deities have a […]

  • Dan Kelly
  • October 13, 2023
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