It’s flippant and inelegant to say that, for seventeen hundred years, Arius has been the bogeyman of Christian theology. But it’s true. As Rowan Williams notes — with greater literary [...]
On the cattle drive to Wichita for the train to Chicago, Frank Harris goes out looking for strays and finds a new-born calf beside a dead cow. He tosses the [...]
A little time Patrick T. Reardon A little time, give me a little time. Let me pray, preach, hymn, rant, roll on the floor in visions. Let [...]
The eight-year-old inside me perked up early in my reading of Leaf Town Forever when two friends are hired by Lucinda at the Treasure Shop to search for treasures, such [...]
Think of Vance Randolph’s Pissing in the Snow and Other Ozark Folktales as a kind of grass-roots version of the 14th century Decameron. In fact, Randolph might have had that [...]
In Dante's Divine Comedy: A Biography, Joseph Luzzi is focused on the artistic afterlife of the groundbreaking Italian narrative poem, completed around 1321, particularly on how literary evaluations of the [...]
As a thirteen-year-old, I left my family’s home on Chicago’s West Side to study for the Roman Catholic priesthood at a high school seminary about fifty miles away in Momence, [...]
Bobby Sky, a wiry Black guy with a preference for action, in the sense of violence, and for action, in the sense of drugs, is walking out of Alan’s apartment [...]
Interview: Patrick T. Reardon and the Poetry of “Every Marred Thing” By Dan Kelly Originally published at Third Coast Review October 8, 2025 Writer Patrick T. Reardon has [...]
Julie Katz is in hell — by choice. And she sees this black-bearded, thirtyish man sprinkling water on the heads of one tormented soul after the next, each according to [...]
