Book Review
Finding the Bones, central Wisconsin author Nikki Kallio’s debut short story collection, opens with a geography lesson.
Regardless of subject matter, a novel is always about something else, and Dry Land by B. Pladek is no exception. The novel is billed as a book about a conservationist from Wisconsin with a remarkable—yes, magical—gift.
Death’s Door, the dangerous strait linking Lake Michigan and Green Bay, is the protagonist and tells its story in first-person verse in this recent publication from the Wisconsin Historical Society Press.
“The land set me dreaming, summoning memories of my other soulscapes and psychogeographies, layering them over one another in a palimpsest, many times and places present within me at once.” This line offers both description and explanation of Alis
Imagine living everyday of your childhood in a place where today’s Environmental Protection Agency would have declared the air quality “hazardous,” coding it in the dark red color of deoxygenated blood on its air pollution maps.
Abraham Smith’s latest book, Dear Weirdo, consists of a vibrant 81-page long poem throughout which the reader experiences both Smith’s unique writerly voice and a chorus of countless voices across space and time.
After the death of his mother, the French philosopher and literary critic Roland Barthes recorded a note that eventually became his book, Mourning Diary.
With rich characters at its heart, Elise Gregory’s debut novel The Clayfields entwines readers into its community and sings an ode to contemporary rural life.
My friendship with Jayson Iwen precludes me from reviewing Roze & Blud, his poetry collection. However, I can introduce him to readers and in this way attract attention to his work.
This collection of essays, compiled and edited by folklorists and UW–Madison Scandinavian Studies/Folklore Program alums Marcus Cederström and Tim Frandy, guides readers through the principles, processes, and products of public folklore and humani
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