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Review: 'Mouthful of Birds,' by Samanta Schweblin
Fiction: In a new English translation, a Spanish-language writer offers weird tales that will haunt your dreams.
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Review: 'Sugar Run,' by Mesha Maren
FICTION: A woman is released from prison and tries to find her way in rural West Virginia.
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Review: 'An Orchestra of Minorities,' by Chigozie Obioma
FICTION: In his second novel, Chigozie Obioma contends with individual choice and society.
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Review: 'Wanderer,' by Sarah Léon, translated from the French by John Cullen
FICTION: Two musicians confront the past after 10 years apart in this intelligent and affecting debut.
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Review: 'All the Wild Hungers,' by Karen Babine
NONFICTION: Minnesotan Karen Babine meditates on cancer, cooking and family in this unusual memoir.
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Books and Twin Cities book events you won't want to miss
It's time to get excited about another year of books and reading.
Stage & Arts
Keillor is selling Common Good Books, but he isn't leaving the Twin Cities
The former host of "Prairie Home Companion" has no plans on retreating full-time to his Manhattan pad.
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Review: 'These Truths,' by Jill Lepore
NONFICTION: From Columbus to Trump, historian Jill Lepore examines U.S. history through the lens of rights.
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Review: 'The Long Take,' by Robin Robertson
FICTION: A dazzling "noir narrative" about a Canadian veteran trying to get his life back on track in postwar America.
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Review: 'Radiant Shimmering Light,' by Sarah Selecky
FICTION: Sarah Selecky explores the way language and communication devolve in the morass of self-promotion on social media.
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Review: 'Paris Echo,' by Sebastian Faulks
FICTION: A Moroccan teenager and an American historian form an unlikely alliance while exploring wartime Paris.
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Review: 'Late Breaking,' by K.D. Miller
FICTION: These 10 short stories — inspired by paintings — are brave, unsentimental and often passionate.
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Twin Cities author Patricia Hampl shares why winter brings us together
Patricia Hampl's latest book, published this year, is "The Art of the Wasted Day."
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A delightful 'Christmas cornucopia' by writers through the ages
NONFICTION: This anthology offers something for everyone.
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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
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- 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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- Bob Woodward to take on final days of Trump's presidency
- Alison Lurie, prize winning novelist, dead at 94
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- In book-loving Minnesota, Independent Bookstore Day lasts 5 days. Here's what indie shops recommend.
- Review: 'Ali: A Life,' by Jonathan Eig
- Pulitzer Prize-winning Minneapolis author Louise Erdrich announces new book
- Spring's hot gift book features gorgeous found-nature photos
- 'Magpie Murders' creator Anthony Horowitz wrote 'Close to Death' and is a (dopey) character in it
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