Local Reads

The ‘Nothing’s Wasted Tour’ launches a new book by Sagashus T. Levingston while connecting entrepreneurs to bridge health and wealth gaps for Black mothers.

A Q&A with Ingrid Andersson, author of the poetry collection, ‘Jordemoder: Poems of a Midwife,’ which cycles through themes of birth, death and life.

Debut novel “Truth and Other Lies” by Wisconsin author Maggie Smith explores how our individual biases influence our perspectives of the world around us.

Peter Fauerbach’s thoroughly researched tale of his family’s historic Fauerbach Brewery is finally available to readers in a new coffee table book.

“Winter Stars” takes a look back at the time when Iverson tended for his centenarian mom.

Madison’s “Rock and Roll Detective” Jim Berkenstadt provides answers to music history’s pressing questions in a new book called “Mysteries in the Music.”

Sign up for the monthly Sunday Reads newsletter for links to current print stories, articles you might have missed, web exclusive content and literary news.

After miles spent walking its wooded trails every day, Doug Moe continues to dig deeper into the history of the 1,260-acre urban wonder.

Sign up for the monthly Sunday Reads newsletter for links to current print stories, articles you might have missed, web exclusive content and literary news.

Joshua William Clauer did not live to celebrate the launch of his book, “Walking the Line: There is No Time For Hate.” Clauer died on Feb. 21 at the age of 48.

Kristin Mitchell built her own small business over the past 25 years — a little, eponymous design shop nestled creekside in the valley at her Mineral Point home.

Poet Sasha Debevec-McKenney is the artist-in-residence at StartingBlock Madison.

Once thought endangered, the area’s indie bookshops are ringing in a new era.

Sign up for the monthly Sunday Reads newsletter for links to current print stories, articles you might have missed, web exclusive content and literary news.

Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter Mark S. Johnson’s new book, Though the Earth Gives Way, is a cautionary novel about climate change.

The new James Edward Mills book from National Geographic tells the untold story of the role people of color have played in the preservation of public lands.

Since his release from prison in 2015 on appeal, Bankston has become an educator, restorative justice practitioner, entrepreneur, nonprofit founder and author of four books. His latest was released in December 2021. 

It’s hard not to notice the parallels between author Hannah Morrissey and Hazel Greenlee, the protagonist in her novel, “Hello, Transcriber,” out Nov. 30.

Ai Weiwei’s new memoir “1000 Years of Joys and Sorrows” has drawn rapturous reviews. Lenore McComas Coberly, 96, recalls meeting the author’s famous father.

Alex Bledsoe is slated to soon release “Dandelion,” the first book in four years from the prolific author of 13 other published novels and more than 50 short stories.

On Nov. 2, 1941 — 80 years ago last week — Truax, a lieutenant in the U. S. Army Air Force, died when the P-40 aircraft he was flying crashed.

66 of George Hesselberg’s favorite obituaries from his 42-year career at the Wisconsin State Journal are collected in his new book “Dead Lines.”

When Manna Cafe closed in June 2020, the loss was hard to put into words, but that’s what Barb Pratzel has attempted to do with her new cookbook.

Mildred Harnack is the only U.S. woman ever executed by Nazis by direct order of Hitler — but a local journalist unearthed her story a decade ago. What does he make of the new book?

The internationally best-selling Wisconsin author’s new literary thriller explores the chasmic gap between the haves and the have-nots in a mountain town.

Bradbury’s career launched in southern Wisconsin thanks to another well-known writer and publisher.

When he heard the popular Netflix series was based on a novel of the same name, Doug Moe remembered he’d reviewed it for a newspaper nearly 40 years ago.

Author Shanna Greene Benjamin describes how the late UW–Madison professor’s work illuminated literature by Black women while she kept her own life private.