Recent content from Maureen McCarthy
Review: 'French Like Moi,' by Scott Carpenter
NONFICTION: A Carleton College professor spends a year in Paris, with charming results.
Review: 'A House in the Mountains,' by Caroline Moorehead
NONFICTION: The last book in the Resistance quartet highlights the work of intrepid women partisans in Italy.
Review: 'Nanaville: Adventures in Grandparenting,' by Anna Quindlen
NONFICTION: Anna Quindlen's latest book savors the passage to grandparenthood.
'Pride and Prejudice' redo takes readers to Pakistan
FICTION: Jane Austen's classic returns in a delightful remake with a Muslim family in 2001.
Is listening to an audiobook the same as reading? Readers weigh in
Audiobooks have their fans and detractors. Here's what folks had to say.
Review: 'Fly Girls' by Keith O'Brien
Nonfiction: Female pilots of the 1920s and '30s fought dangers and sexism.
Review: 'Mary B.,' by Katherine J. Chen
Fiction: The overlooked sister in "Pride and Prejudice" gets her due.
Is listening to an audiobook the same as reading?
Some folks think hearing someone else read a book is "cheating." What do you think?
REVIEW: 'Mr. Flood's Last Resort' by Jess Kidd
FICTION: Jess Kidd's second novel is a charming, touching magical mystery tour.
Review: 'Stray City,' by Chelsey Johnson
FICTION: A Minnesota writer's debut novel explores the turmoil stirred up when a lost lesbian finds herself with a straight man.
Review: 'Every Note Played,' by Lisa Genova
Fiction: Neuroscientist author of "Still Alice" explores ravages of ALS.
Review: 'The Good People,' by Hannah Kent, offers haunting look at Celtic superstition
Fiction: Sudden death and hard times breed suspicion in 19th-century Ireland.
Review: 'Jane Austen at Home,' by Lucy Worsley, follows trail of nearly homeless author
NONFICTION: Unmarried and unsuccessful in her lifetime, Jane Austen relied on family.
Book review: 'A Paris All Your Own,' edited by Eleanor Brown
NONFICTION: Female authors reflect on the power of the City of Light.
Review: 'The Subway Stops at Bryant Park' by N. West Moss
Fiction: A Midtown Manhattan park provides the setting for a series of rich character studies.
REVIEW: "Small Hours" by Jennifer Kitses
FICTION: A novel told over 24 hours tells a taut tale of marriage under pressure.
REVIEW: 'White Birch, Red Hawthorn,' by Nora Murphy
NONFICTION: Time with American Indians makes an Irish-American rethink her claims to land.
Review: 'Dust Bowl Girls,' by Lydia Reeder
Nonfiction: The story of young Oklahoma women who left home to seek success in basketball and in life.
Review: 'The Jane Austen Writers' Club,' by Rebecca Smith
NONFICTION: Beloved novelist's "five-times-great-niece" mines stories for advice, revisits favorites.
Review: "Forty Autumns" by Nina Willner
NONFICTION: Memoir re-connects lives of family separated by the creation of East and West Germany.
Review: 'Les Parisiennes' by Anne Sebba
NONFICTION: French women faced life-or-death decisions during WWII — and painful reckonings afterward.
Review: 'When in French,' by Lauren Collins
NONFICTION: A New Yorker writer marries a Frenchman without speaking his native language.
Review: 'The Immortal Irishman,' by Timothy Egan
NONFICTION: "The Worst Hard Time" author Timothy Egan brings an Irish patriot's incredible true story to life.
Review: 'The Only Street in Paris,' by Elaine Sciolino
NONFICTION: A journalist chronicles the ever-changing people and places that tie her to one corner of Paris.
MIDLIFE: Can you go baguette?
Learning a new language at 60? It seemed like a good idea at the time.
'Little Demon in the City of Light' is a mesmerizing case of murder
NONFICTION: An unusual murder case in Belle Epoque Paris becomes even more so when hypnosis is tried as a defense.
REVIEW: 'Secret Partners: Big Tom Brown and the Barker Gang,' by Tim Mahoney
A new history exposes the hand of former St. Paul Police Chief Tom Brown in some of the city's most infamous crimes.
REVIEW: "Topsy," by Michael Daly
BOOK REVIEW: A circus elephant's life collides with Thomas Edison's electrical wizardry to sad and strange effect at the turn of the 20th century.
REVIEW: "The Summer of Beer and Whiskey,' by Edward Achorn
Nonfiction: Baseball may owe its survival to the 1883 pennant race and those who transformed a failing sport.
Poll says Catholic voters won't follow their bishops
New poll by Catholic advocacy group says Catholics more concerned about economy and health care than social issues promoted by church.
First 'Multi-faith' Week starts Monday at U
Events on Coffman lawn aim for "healthy dialogue" about religion on campus.
Will religion matter on Election Day, and if so, whose?
Rose French is on vacation so her editor Maureen McCarthy is looking for interesting news to post in her place. Here's something.
American Indian's sainthood raises mixed emotions
Rose French is on vacation this week, so her editor Maureen McCarthy is scouting the Web for interesting stories to share. Here's one.
Food giveaway marks new era
Disciples Ministry Church makes transition from a grocery shelf to online outreach.
You think our days are long?
Growing number of Muslims in Norway deal with sun that never sets.
NONFICTION REVIEW: "The Table Comes First"
New Yorker writer and foodie Adam Gopnik analyzes, sometimes charmingly, what we eat and why we eat it.
NONFICTION REVIEW: "Sex on the Moon"
Thad Roberts had a plum spot in an elite NASA internship program and the respect of peers and scientists. So what possessed him to risk all that to steal and sell moon rocks?
ESSAYS REVIEW: "Paris: The Collected Traveler"
Travel guidebooks can tell you hundreds of sights to visit, but Barrie Kerper wants you to understand what you see.
The Dirt: "New Encyclopedia of Gardening Techniques"
Beginner and veteran alike can learn useful techniques.
Principals-to-be are getting ready to graduate, too
Students aren't the only people graduating this spring. Twelve members of the 2009-10 Minneapolis Principals' Academy graduate this month, and five will be school principals next year.
Baseball's first king of the mound
Edward Achorn rediscovers the amazing story of one of early baseball's dominant pitchers and the season that made him great.
With cards, like the game, it's about the money
The history of baseball card collecting shows that this kid's hobby was never really child's play.
Author strings together pearls' past and present
"Tears of Mermaids" dives deep to find the connections between pearl divers and the women who wear their finds.
In an instant, family expands
An unexpected phone call from her birth mother prompts the writer to re-examine her definition of family.
Mortgage mess is covered inside out
A New York Times reporter who wrote about the housing bubble also got caught up in it.
The greatest tennis match ever
The U.S.-German match in the 1937 Davis Cup tournament semifinals had significance and meaning beyond the world of tennis.
Diamond VISION
Get in the swing of the season with these books about baseball history, umping, pitching and playing -- each with its own Twins reference, too.
