books
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Carl Hiaasen headlines summer/fall Club Book lineup
Poet Li-Young Lee will speak in early June to kick off the series. Updated 12:09 PM
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REVIEW: "My Foreign Cities,’ by Elizabeth Scarboro.
BOOK REVIEW: The author describes the peaks and valleys of her young marriage to a man with cystic fibrosis.
Full storyFull story Updated May. 22, 2013
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Triumph and tragedy: "Guns at Last Light," by Rick Atkinson
The third book of Rick Atkinson’s World War II trilogy tells the stories of the generals and the GIs in...
Full story Full story Updated May. 18, 2013
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Review: "Let the Dark Flower Blossom" by Norah Labiner is an elegant exploration of the power of stories
FICTION: An elegant exploration of the power of stories, wrapped inside a murder mystery.
Full story Full story Updated May. 11, 2013
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The Browser: "Imperial Dreams," "The Stranger"
A quick look at recent releases: "Imperial Dreams," by Tim Gallagher, and "The Stranger," by Camilla Lackberg.
Full story Full story Updated May. 20, 2013
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Harry Potter book with author notes sold for $228K
For fans of the boy wizard, this could be the most coveted copy of all the "Harry Potter" books in the world.
Full story Full story Updated May. 21, 2013
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Minor-league baseball: At the intersection of hopes and dreams
A transcendent tale of a season with a scruffy minor-league baseball team in a scruffy minor-league town.
Full story Full story Updated May. 18, 2013
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Review: A delightful collection, "E.B. White on Dogs," edited by Martha White
Fred the dachshund was an important character in E.B. White’s essay “Death of a Pig.” He stood at White’s side...
Full story Full story Updated May. 18, 2013
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Review: "Strange Stones: Dispatches from the East and West," by Peter Hessler
NONFICTION: Wide-ranging essays, in which Hessler profiles a global basketball star, eats at a rat restaurant and walks the Great...
Full story Full story Updated May. 18, 2013
more from books
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Review: 'And the Mountains Echoed,' by Khaled Hosseini
FICTION: An Afghan family endures in the face of migration, poverty and war.
Updated May. 18, 2013
- New York Times bestellers
- Review: 'The Woman of Porto Pim,' by Antonio Tabucchi
- Review: The story of "Bunker Hill,' vibrantly told by Nathaniel Philbrick
- Review: "Jewelweed,” by David Rhodes
- Childhood innocence and adults' dark deeds fill "On Sal Mal Lane"
- Review: "Pacific" by Tom Drury
- Bookmark: ArtStart finalists to read Mississippi River poems
- Bart Plantega puts Wisconsin yodeling on the map
- REVIEW: "The Elimination,” by Rithy Panh with Christophe Bataille, translated by John Cullen.
- Seeing Sylvia Plath with fresh regard
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Legend of F. Scott Fitzgerald lives on
F. Scott Fitzgerald’s characters – and their highs and lows – resonate nearly a century after the St. Paulite found fame.
Full story Full story Updated May. 9, 2013
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THE BROWSER: "Tapestry of Fortunes,” by Elizabeth Berg, and "A White Wind Blew,” by James Markert
TAPESTRY OF FORTUNES By Elizabeth Berg (Random House, 219 pages, $26) When guys go on road trips, they raise havoc, ride motorcycles,...
Full story Full story Updated May. 12, 2013
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Ethan Rutherford launches story collection at Micawber's
A merry reading, with beer, laughter, and jokes about the book's title.
Full story Full story Updated May. 8, 2013
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REVIEW: "The Virtues of Poetry,’ by James Longenbach.
BOOK REVIEW: Essays show us poetry in ways we couldn’t ourselves imagine.
Full story Full story Updated May. 8, 2013
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