Books

A new documentary, “Free for All: The Public Library” spotlights the people working to keep information free and accessible as public libraries face threats of closures and funding cuts.

WPR’s “BETA” talked to Christine Wenc about how The Onion became “America’s Finest News Source.”

A new book shares the story of how researcher Karl Paul Link discovered Warfarin in a UW-Madison lab.

A new book of essays by Wisconsin author Tamara Dean reflects on homesteader life in the Driftless Area of Wisconsin.

Local writer Heather Kerrigan took a 2,600-mile journey across the state to taste test food and drinks that Wisconsin has become famous for. The result is a roughly 200-page highlight reel featuring local breweries, restaurants and cheese shops in “Beer, Brats, and Cheese: A Wisconsin Road Trip.”

Rob Ferrett and Beatrice Lawrence from WPR’s “Wisconsin Today” went to see Karen Wynn Fonstad’s original hand-drawn maps in-person.

There are many contradictory myths about Northwoods lumberjacks and the work they did in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. They were depicted as hard-living, violent men, but also as upstanding, conservation-minded gentlemen.

Inspired by Scandinavian noir, Hannah Morrissey has crafted several dark crime novels set in the fictional Wisconsin town, Black Harbor.

New essay collection by a Wisconsin children’s book writer shares how Wisconsin became key to the lives and careers of 100 influential people.

Amid rising boycotts of major companies, the owners of Bound to Happen Books in Stevens Point and WordHaven Bookhouse in Sheboygan find themselves uniquely poised to meet the political moment.