Statewide book club highlights Kao Kalia Yang memoir
Yang will discuss 'The Song Poet' in a December event for the public.
Review: 'New York, My Village,' by Uwem Akpan
A Nigerian editor deals with American racism in this gripping, compassionate novel.
Review: 'A Splendid Intelligence: The Life of Elizabeth Hardwick,' By Cathy Curtis
A biography of the critic and novelist who married poet Robert Lowell — and paid for it dearly.
Review: 'Somebody Loves You,' by Mona Arshi
Sad yet wryly funny, poet Mona Arshi's debut novel vividly depicts the troubled coming-of-age of a British Indian girl.
Review: 'The Last King of America,' by Andrew Roberts
Andrew Roberts draws on a newly released cache of documents to provide a detailed biography of King George III that presents him in a whole new light.
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REVIEW: 'Mixed Company,' by Jenny Shank
FICTION: Jenny Shank's stories paint a vivid portrait of Denver, a changing and diverse city.
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Fiona McCrae, who turned Minnesota's Graywolf Press into a national force, is stepping down
Graywolf books have won the Nobel Prize, the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Award, among other laurels.
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Review: 'The Lyrics: 1956 to the Present,' by Paul McCartney, edited by Paul Muldoon
In 'The Lyrics,' Paul McCartney delivers an insider's look at all the songs and giving credit to Black artists along the way.
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Review: Ghosts aplenty populate Louise Erdrich's new novel 'The Sentence'
A customer's ghost complicates the life of a Native bookseller in this timely novel by the Pulitzer Prize winner.
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The ghosts, past and present, that haunt renowned Minnesota novelist Louise Erdrich
Her new novel is a ghost story set in a Minneapolis bookstore very much like Erdrich's own.
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Review: 'Olav Audunssøn, II. Providence,' by Sigrid Undset; translated by Tiina Nunnally
The second in Sigrid Undset's 13th century series is steeped in darkness and murder.
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Review: "Blood in the Water," by Silver Donald Cameron
A Canadian author's swan song uses a renowned local murder to ask big questions about neighbors and society.
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Don't Miss: 40th anniversary of 'Bring Warm Clothes'
It's been 40 years since former Star Tribune reporter Peg Meier took a leave of absence from the newspaper, secured a grant and set…
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Review: 'Blue-skinned gods,' by SJ Sindu
SJ Sindu has imagined a fascinating premise for her novel exploring identity, family, community and the tensions that arise among them: A boy born with…
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Review: 'What Storm, What Thunder,' by Myriam J. A. Chancy
A powerful, emotionally rich novel about 10 individuals affected by the earthquake in Haiti in 2010.
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Bookmark: Readers absolutely love their book clubs
A while back, I wrote a column in which I dithered about joining a book club. I belonged to a book club about 20…
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Minnesota authors land on list of 850 books targeted by Texas lawmaker as 'distressing' for students
They include Macalester Prof. Duchess Harris, who expressed "deep concerns" about the investigation into Texas school districts having books that deal with race, sexuality and other issues.
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Review: 'Riccardino,' by Andrea Camilleri, translated from the Spanish by Stephen Sartarelli
Tuesday Read: Montalbano says farewell in the lovably quirky novel 'Riccardino'
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Review: 'Murder at Mallowan Hall,' by Colleen Cambridge
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"Syria's Secret Library: Reading and Redemption in a Town Under Siege," by Mike ThomsonIn Daraya, a city devastated by Syria's civil war, a group of…
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Bestselling St. Paul author William Kent Krueger doesn't claim to be a writer: 'I'm a storyteller'
The latest in his Cork O'Connor mystery series brings him to the Fitzgerald Theater Wednesday.
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Review: "What Just Happened" by Charles Finch
The intermittent observations of an L.A. novelist as he maneuvers through the first year of the COVID-19 pandemic.
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Review: 'The Writing of the Gods,' by Edward Dolnick
A wide-ranging look at the discovery and decoding of the Rosetta Stone, which catalyzed our understanding of hieroglyphs and ancient Egypt.
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