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Review: 'The Big Green Tent,' by Ludmila Ulitskaya, translated by Polly Gannon
FICTION: A sprawling novel features intimate portrayals of dissident life in Soviet Russia.
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Authors, bookstores -- and shoppers? -- to mark 3rd Indies First Day
The Saturday after Thanksgiving will once again find authors and illustrators giving advice at local bookstores.
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REVIEW: 'Plain Radical: Living, Loving and Learning to Leave the Planet Gracefully,' by Robert Jensen
NONFICTION: Part memoir, part biography and part manifesto set in 1980s Minnesota, "Plain Radical" honors progressive freethinker Jim Koplin.
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Adam Johnson, Ta-Nehisi Coates win National Book Awards
This is the second year in a row that a story collection has won the fiction award.
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Review: 'To Hell and Back,' by Ian Kershaw
NONFICTION: Ian Kershaw's history of Europe from World War I to midcentury is a comprehensive narrative of the West's tragic slide from one catastrophic war to the next.
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Review: 'Hotels of North America,' by Rick Moody
FICTION: Rick Moody's latest is a barbed, lonesome novel, presented as a collection of online hotel reviews.
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Review: 'Beatlebone,' by Kevin Barry
FICTION: In Kevin Barry's latest novel, John Lennon attempts to remedy his writer's block and his mounting middle-aged anxieties with a trip to an island off Ireland's west coast.
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Review: 'Clementine: The Life of Mrs. Winston Churchill,' by Sonia Purnell
NONFICTION: A biography of Clementine Churchill, Winston Churchill's wife, confidante, behind-the-scenes political adviser and true love.
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Review: 'Golden Age,' by Jane Smiley
FICTION: The last volume of Jane Smiley's Last Hundred Years trilogy takes us into the golden (or possibly not) future.
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'Frozen in History' tackles Minnesota's lively, inspiring history
Escaped Nazis in northern Minnesota. A jilted countess on the prairie. A Minneapolis mobster. A new e-book by award-winning columnist Curt Brown offers a fascinating look back on the state's history.
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Review: 'How Winter Began,' by Joy Castro
FICTION: The artful stories of Joy Castro wake us up, shake us up.
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REVIEW: 'Keeping an Eye Open: Essays on Art,' by Julian Barnes
NONFICTION: In essays on 19th- and 20th-century art, Julian Barnes displays the virtues of an enthusiast.
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Review: 'Hemingway in Love,' by A.E. Hotchner
NONFICTION: A.E. Hotchner's memoir reflects on Ernest Hemingway's love — and betrayal — of his first wife.
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Talking books and writing along Lake Superior
The inaugural North Shore writing festival draws three times as many participants as estimated.
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Book review: 'The Japanese Lover,' by Isabel Allende: Sweet, but insubstantial
FICTION: The sentimental story of a California woman's lifelong passion reads more like a soap opera than grand drama.
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Review: 'City on Fire,' by Garth Risk Hallberg
FICTION: Garth Risk Hallberg's debut novel offers a complex portrait of a turbulent New York City in the 1970s.
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Review: 'Knitting Pearls: Writers Writing About Knitting,' edited by Ann Hood
NONFICTION: From Stewart O'Nan to Diana Gabaldon, writers reflect on the art of knitting in a thoughtful but uneven anthology.
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- Maia Kobabe's 'Gender Queer' tops list of most criticized library books for third straight year
- Top publisher teams with top maker of bilingual materials
- Nothing compares: Sinead O'Connor memoir coming out in June
- For Japan's star poet Tanikawa, it's fun, not work, at 90
- Aliu lands book deal on how he confronted racism in hockey
- Chris Hillman's musical life from Byrds to Burritos and more
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- Chicago 7-year-old raises money for hospital's pandemic gear
- Bob Woodward to take on final days of Trump's presidency
- Alison Lurie, prize winning novelist, dead at 94
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