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

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."

A local author's new book explores the world of squatting

Hannah Dobbz's Nine-Tenths of the Law surveys the history of "property and resistance in the United States."

Books with baseball themes are out in time for Opening Day.

Local authors offer a kids' book on Willie Mays, a pictorial history of Forbes Field, and a crime novel set in the 1950s.

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