Books
May 22, 2015
Kelly Cherry

Review: 'Twelve Women in a Country Called America,' by Kelly Cherry

FICTION: Time-haunted short stories travel from Richmond to New Orleans with complicated characters.
Books
May 22, 2015
Steve Inskeep

Review: 'Jacksonland: President Andrew Jackson, Cherokee Chief John Ross, and a Great American Land Grab,' by Steve Inskeep

NONFICTION: "Jacksonland" brilliantly illuminates the transformative and morally suspect seventh president by highlighting his complex relationship with a forgotten Cherokee leader.
Books
May 22, 2015
The steep, rugged Driftless region, which includes southwestern Wisconsin, was bypassed by landscape-flattening glaciation tens of thousands of years

Reviews: 'Going Driftless,' by Stephen Lyons, and 'Crossing the Driftless,' by Lynne Diebel

NONFICTION: Two writers explore the wild and hilly Upper Midwest, one by land and one by canoe.
Books
May 22, 2015
Kent Haruf.

Review: 'Our Souls at Night,' by Kent Haruf

FICTION: Kent Haruf's last novel captures the joys and sorrows of a love affair between seniors in the small town of Holt, Colo.
May 22, 2015

Streetscapes: Expert dishes on Minneapolis development boom -- from the street

Consultant Sam Newberg offers insights on how it feels to walk around newer developments in Minneapolis.
Variety
May 22, 2015

Exploring Minneapolis on foot

Photos present a ground-level look at Minneapolis' development boom.
St. Paul
May 22, 2015

Gallery: Saints open new ballpark in St. Paul

The Saints officially started the 2015 season at CHS Field in Lowertown St. Paul on Thursday.
Books
May 22, 2015

Review: 'Mislaid,' by Nell Zink

FICTION: A madcap book about mutating identities channels McCullers, Kafka.
Eat & Drink
May 22, 2015
Taste
May 22, 2015
May 22, 2015
At the Visible Heart Research laboratory on the U of M campus, Ph.D. candidate Brian Howard shows a 3D model of the blood flow of a 10-year old's hear

U researcher has one of first 'bioprinters' using living tissue

The technology could revolutionize transplant medicine.
Movies
May 22, 2015

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