Books
Bookmobiles Have Delivered Books to Ohioans for More than a Century. What’s Next?
Nikki Han-May 20, 2026
In 2022, Chillicothe and Ross County Public Library unveiled the “Bee.” With the tagline “pollinating the community with good things,” the Bee is not...
Columbus’ 32-Room Bookstore Is a Book Lover’s Dream
Eva Fraser-January 26, 2026
Imagine 32 rooms of books in a labyrinthine old building, open to early birds and night owls alike, with discounted books to boot. A...
Madame Bovary, But Make It Midwest: A Review of Louise Erdrich’s “The Mighty Red”
Tom Griffin-January 31, 2025
Published in October 2024, Louise Erdrich’s 19th novel, “The Mighty Red” is a raucous Shakespearean tragicomedy, a refreshingly new and pertinent narrative from a...
Capote’s Tangled Truth: How a Rural Kansas Town Birthed a Literary Genre
Ruby Grisin-January 14, 2025
After spending much of his life writing for The New Yorker in the Big Apple, renowned journalist and author Truman Capote made his way...
The “Oz” Tourism Industry Brings Travelers to Rural Kansas
Alyssa Jacoby-November 23, 2024
In “The Wizard of Oz,” Dorothy Gale’s adventure across yellow brick roads, poppy fields and emerald cities is a beloved, technicolor dream. But where...
Listening for Wonder With the U.S. Poet Laureate at Cuyahoga Valley National Park
Riley Gramley-October 12, 2024
Still, there are mysteries below our sky: the whale song, the songbird singing its call in the bough of a wind-shaken tree.
We are creatures of constant...
In Cleveland, a Book Award Celebrates Literature’s Power for “World Repair”
Ruby Grisin-September 23, 2024
Edith Anisfield-Wolf, a Jewish poet and philanthropist based in Cleveland, founded the Anisfield-Wolf Book Awards out of a belief among Jewish communities called “tikkun...
Children’s Authors Thriving in the Buckeye State (And Four You Didn’t Know Were From Ohio)
Caitlin Cooper-March 23, 2024
“I have everything here that I need.”
Will Hillenbrand has been writing and illustrating children’s books for over 33 years. His bibliography, which includes the...
Telling the Working-class Stories of Rural Michigan: A Review of “Enough to Lose”
Caitlin Cooper-January 5, 2024
When asked about his background, RS Deeren’s first instinct is to describe the setting of his upbringing: rural isolation and working-class struggle. This view...
How Illinois Librarians Are Waging War on Literary Censorship
Caitlin Cooper-October 4, 2023
“Of Mice and Men,” “To Kill a Mockingbird,” “The Catcher in the Rye.” They have more in common than being household classics of American...
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