by Rachel Durfee | Jul 28, 2021 | Magazine Article
by Christopher Chambers | Jul 28, 2021 | Magazine Article
I don’t entirely judge a book by its cover, but I do appreciate a well-designed one. Anthony Bukoski’s The Blondes of Wisconsin is a good-looking book—though the image of the old red brick warehouse on the cover creates some dissonance. It turns out that the warehouse...
by Gary Jones | Jul 28, 2021 | Magazine Article
A family’s history, like an old jigsaw puzzle, often has missing pieces, stories forgotten or kept secret. A present generation looks at old black-and-white photos, at miscellaneous mementos, or, sometimes, at a few hand written letters, and tries to piece together...
by Gary Jones | Mar 10, 2021 | Magazine Article
Ayad Akhtar first came to my attention when I wrote a feature for Peninsula Pulse on Door County’s Big Read selection, American Dervish. This was Akhtar’s 2012 coming-of-age novel about the Pakistani-American son of Muslim immigrants living in Milwaukee. Years later I...
by Jeff Snowbarger | Mar 10, 2021 | Magazine Article
Few things have shaped our state more than the Wisconsin Idea, a more-than-century-old commitment of the University of Wisconsin to serve the state’s citizens. To this day, the fingerprints of the Wisconsin Idea are clearly visible on Wisconsin’s education, economy,...
