Books

Book Club: Throwing Rocks at the Google Bus
Book Club

Throwing Rocks at the Google Bus

What is the systemic problem that sets the rich against the poor and the technologists against everybody else?

100 Things to Do in Milwaukee Before You Die

100 Things to Do in Milwaukee Before You Die

Milwaukee lover Jennifer Posh offers the ultimate Milwaukee bucket list.

Book Club: The Smartest Places on Earth
Book Club

The Smartest Places on Earth

Rust belt cities might be the real emerging markets, but is Milwaukee one of them?

The State of Politics: Why Rural Residents Resent Us
The State of Politics

Why Rural Residents Resent Us

UW Prof listens to people in 29 rural communities, learns why they like Gov. Walker.

Book Club: The Urban Revolutionary
Book Club

The Urban Revolutionary

New York City's transportation visionary offers a guidebook on how to build great cities.

Harvard Author Explains Plague of Evictions

Harvard Author Explains Plague of Evictions

At Boswell Books, MacArthur "Genius" discusses 16,000 people in city evicted annually.

Book Club: “Evicted” in Milwaukee
Book Club

“Evicted” in Milwaukee

Go inside the world of poverty and evictions.

Book Club: How to Build a “Happy City”
Book Club

How to Build a “Happy City”

Our book club is back. Next up is Charles Montgomery's book on designing better cities.

Why Selig Became Commissioner

Why Selig Became Commissioner

Excerpt from new book tells inside story how Selig, Fehr and Steinbrenner remade the business of baseball.

50 Years of Maurice Sendak

50 Years of Maurice Sendak

Milwaukee Public Library exhibition celebrates the life and work of the children's book writer and illustrator.

Books: So This Poet Joins the Military Police…
Books

So This Poet Joins the Military Police…

Ex-Milwaukeean Rick Ryan returns for a reading from his new book, ‘There’s a Man with a Gun Over There.’

Books: The Poet Who Made Milwaukee Famous
Books

The Poet Who Made Milwaukee Famous

John Koethe may be at the peak of his success. His latest poem, published in The New Yorker, includes a scene in a Riverwest bar.