biography

Governor Gretchen Whitmer's new book. Meet a post-ironic candidate for Grand Rapids Mayor. As part of IPR's Stories That Heal, we heard about Diana Priest's journey with loss. And, a conversation with the owner of a new witchcraft-themed bar in Hamtramck.

Lawmakers revive debate over toll roads, an original production telling the stories of survivors of gender-based violence, and a biography on Madonna.

The ethics of juvenile life-without-parole sentences, a signing at Dearborn’s Green Brain Comics for the Spanish language edition of the graphic novel Frizzy, and a new biography about the life and influence of Michigan’s own, Madonna.

Analyzing a shift in the Republican Party's rhetoric over recent years. Dan Charnas archives the life and work of Detroit's revolutionary hip hop producer J Dilla in a new biography, Dilla Time.

Before 1968, most Americans had never heard music played on a synthesizer, which was then still an emerging technology. Many would also have said at the…

Michigan Bookmark is a series that features Michigan authors reviewing Michigan books.On July 8, 1850, with a crimson robe and a paper crown, James Jesse…