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Wisconsin People & Ideas

Hands in the dirt

Midwesterners are obsessed with checking the weather. Most of us, though, aren’t looking at our mobile devices to see what tomorrow’s soil conditions will be.

Poetry

Scribbling

Angela Trudell Vasquez

I prefer crowds with voices echoingup and down the train cars, city bus gears singing stop hereexhaust spewing, laughs rolling to the page—boots, heels, sneakers step on and off the curb,

Poetry

My mother is a social worker who works in a hospital

Oscar Mireles

My mother is a social worker who works in a hospitalshe makes daily visits checks her chartsshares small talk with the patientsas she brightens up their rooms

Book Review

Montaigne in Barn Boots, by Michael Perry

Mari Carlson

What can a sixteenth-century philosopher tell us about the rural/urban divide?

Book Review

The Philosopher's Flight, by Tom Miller

Erik Richardson

A UW Hospital emergency room doctor combines magical realism with coming-of-age romance and swashbuckling adventure in his debut novel.

Fiction

Like This, Like That

Elizabeth Wyckoff

Me and Janie and Melissa, we want to be other women. Not the women we are expected to be, but the ones we’ve seen on television and read about in novels.