REVIEW: 'Black in the Middle,' edited by Terrion L. Williamson
NONFICTION: A new anthology edited by a University of Minnesota professor brings many voices to define what it means to be Black in the Heartland.
REVIEW: 'Sex With Presidents,' by Eleanor Herman
NONFICTION: A books that asks: Does wanting to be president also make men cheat?
REVIEW: Ivy Pochoda's excellent "These Women" illuminates those who live in the margins
FICTION: Ivy Pochoda's excellent "These Women" illuminates those who live in the margins.
REVIEW: 'Conditional Citizens: On Belonging in America,' by Laila Lalami
NONFICTION: Exploring the exclusion of vast swaths of the population from the basic privileges of citizenship.
REVIEW: 'Here We Are,' by Graham Swift
FICTION: A quietly brilliant novel about three entertainers and their relationships onstage and off in 1950s England.
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Review: 'Vesper Flights,' by Helen Macdonald
NONFICTION: An insightful collection of essays about our relationship with the natural world.
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In her new book 'Just Us,' Claudia Rankine invites us all to talk about white privilege
Silence on the issue equals "the constant death of Black people," says the first guest in this year's virtual Talking Volumes series,
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Quarantine read: Reader recommends 'Bruno, Chief of Police' series
Martin Walker’s “Bruno, Chief of Police” series to calm the COVID soul. A few times a year — summers are best, when I’m on the…
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Minneapolis writer's debut book on longlist for National Book Award
“Owls of the Eastern Ice,” a nonfiction narrative account of a scientist’s search to find and conserve a rare owl in far eastern Russia,…
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Pulitzer-winning writer Isabel Wilkerson joins Talking Volumes lineup
The author of "Caste" will close out the virtual series of literary conversations Oct. 13.
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With an all-woman lineup, this year's Talking Volumes book series goes virtual
The annual series will deliver authors Yaa Gyasi, Helen Macdonald, Claudia Rankine and Sarah Broom via Zoom.
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Excerpt from Claudia Rankine's 'Just Us: A Conversation'
On my way to retrieve my coat I'm paused in the hallway in someone else's home when a man approaches to tell me he thinks…
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Review: 'Homeland Elegies,' by Ayad Akhtar
FICTION: A playwright reflects on Muslim American identity in a post-Sept. 11 world in this searing work of autofiction.
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New York Times bestsellers
FICTION 1. Where the Crawdads Sing, by Delia Owens. (Putnam) In a quiet town on the North Carolina coast in 1969, a young woman…
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5 Minnesota literary organizations receive critical COVID grants
The grant money will help them ride out the economic downturn brought about by COVID-19.
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REVIEW: 'Squeeze Me,' by Carl Hiaasen
FICTION: A woman vanishes near the president's Winter White House. Could the python have done it?
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Yaa Gyasi talks about the tension between science and faith in new novel 'Transcendent Kingdom'
Yaa Gyasi's second novel sprang from a friend's research, and her own interest in love, science and religion.
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REVIEW: 'I Saw Him Die,' by Andrew Wilson, and 'Shadowplay' by Joseph O'Connor
I Saw Him DieBy Andrew Wilson. (Washington Square Press, 400 pages, $16.99.)In the great tradition of Agatha Christie, Andrew Wilson's "I Saw Him Die" features…
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Bookmark: In praise of mail-order book clubs
I don’t remember the first book I read. But the first book that I do remember I remember very well. I was born in 1958.…
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Review: 'The Discomfort of Evening,' by Marieke Lucas Rijneveld, translated by Michele Hutchison
FICTION: A 10-year-old girl tries to come to grips with her brother's death in a family of dysfunction and pain.
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Review: 'What Are You Going Through,' by Sigrid Nunez
FICTION: Melancholy vigil is lightened by witty rapport between friends.
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Review: 'The Killings at Kingfisher Hill,' by Sophie Hannah
FICTION: Another elaborate and enjoyable murder mystery featuring the legendary detective Hercule Poirot.
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Quarantine read: 'Becoming a Nurse,' by Sonny Kleinfield
“Becoming a Nurse,” by Sonny Kleinfield I will read anything that Sonny Kleinfield writes — the graceful long-form stories he wrote for the…
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Review: Yaa Gyasi's new novel 'Transcendent Kingdom'
FICTION: In Yaa Gyasi's second novel, a graduate student embraces the complexities at the heart of her African immigrant family.
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New York Times bestsellers
FICTION 1. Where the Crawdads Sing, by Delia Owens. (Putnam) In a quiet town on the North Carolina coast in 1969, a young woman…
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