Two new biographies run different basepaths to Willie Stargell

Two new biographies run different basepaths to Willie Stargell

Richard Peterson and Frank Gannon explore the life and legacy of the Pirates' beloved "Pops."

Pittsburgh group hosts a rare gathering of exiled Chinese political dissidents.

Highlights include "An Illegal Conversation: What we would like to talk about together in China — but can't."

Poet Scott Silsbe's new collection looks back on life.

"So much of memory is a breaking up/of beginnings and endings, major keys transposed/to minors."

David V. Matthews offers a strong debut short-story collection.

Matthews' style is crisp, even deceptively offhanded, yet there's plenty going on beneath the surface.

Dan Rooney and house historian Carol Peterson co-write a fine new history of the North Side

Some high points of this story are familiar, but this book invariably tells them with a welcome historical precision and humanistic nuance

A new book highlights legal battles against a West Virginia coal giant

"It's two Pittsburgh lawyers at their best."

A review of poet Jan Beatty's new collection, The Switching/ Yard.

"The new book ups the ante of Beatty's punk-tinged feminism flavored with graphic sex."

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