Bookmark: Rediscovering the joy of the 'Slow Read'
If you're planning to read a book, who cares how long it takes to read it? Who's keeping score?
Review: 'The Fifties: An Underground History' by James R. Gaines
Gaines tells the stories of gay rights, civil rights and feminist and environmental activists who fought for change through the thicket of postwar conformity and repression.
Review: 'Thank You, Mr. Nixon,' by Gish Jen
Intricately enmeshed stories examine personal ties between families in China and the United States over the past 50 years.
Review: 'A Previous Life,' by Edmund White
FICTION: A couple's twin memoirs generate more heat than light.
Review: 'Defenestrate,' by Renée Branum
Renee Branum writes a beautifully structured work about ancestry, siblinghood, vulnerability and fear.
Review: 'South to America,' by Imani Perry
One Black academic's exploration of the South seeks to center the region as the "soul of America."
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Review: 'We Begin at the End,' by Chris Whitaker
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Literary Rocket Man
Minneapolis writer's buzzy debut novel tackles climate change, plague and the salvation of outer space.
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Debut novel by Minnesota writer Sequoia Nagamatsu offers wonder and hope in the face of grief
Sequoia Nagamatsu's debut novel, "How High We Go in the Dark," blends speculative and literary fiction to offer a bleak yet hopeful glimpse of humanity's potential futures.
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Review: 'Always Remember Your Name,' by Andra & Tatiana Bucci, translated from Italian by Ann Goldstein
The Bucci sisters were 4 and 6 when they were sent to Auschwitz.
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Review: 'The Latinist,' by Mark Prins
In this retelling of the myth of Apollo and Daphne, author Mark Prins has written an engrossing psychological thriller.
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Review: 'Small World,' by Jonathan Evison
Evison deftly weaves stories of the present and the past, illustrating how all of our lives and futures are linked together.
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Review: 'Yinka, Where is Your Huzband?' by Lizzie Damilola Blackburn
What does it take for one British-Nigerian woman to find a date to her cousin's wedding? A lot, apparently.
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His cousin's long-lost book was a poignant surprise for Minn.'s former U.S. Sen. Rudy Boschwitz
Ulrich Boschwitz wrote his novel about a German Jew on the run in the days after Kristallnacht.
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Lindsey Vonn's new memoir 'Rise' has lots to say about skiing but nothing on Tiger
Gossip-free, the memoir is at its best discussing how she confronted gender barriers in the sport.
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Bookmark: Sometimes we keep books so we can give them away
Why, I ask myself, do I have such an absurd number of books?
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Review: 'To Paradise,' by Hanya Yanagihara
A deeply moving cri de coeur about the power of love to fight despair.
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Review: 'Chasing History,' by Carl Bernstein
NONFICTION: A legendary newspaper journalist looks back at the formative years of his career.
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Review: 'Fiona and Jane,' by Jean Chen Ho
Jean Chen Ho's virtuosic debut collection of short stories follows relationships over three decades.
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Review: 'Present Tense Machine,' by Gunnhild Øyehaug, translated by Kari Dickson
A heartfelt tale about a mother and daughter separated in parallel universes brought about by the power of language.
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Review: 'Lost & Found,' by Kathryn Schulz
A sublime, erudite memoir explores the connection between grief and love.
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The Loft Literary Center to delay Wordplay
Annual writers festival will take 2022 off, reconvene in 2023.
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