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Review: 'City of Hustle,' edited by Jon K. Lauck and Patrick Hicks
NONFICTION: This collection of essays — and a bit of fiction — defines the city of Sioux Falls.
Review: 'Portable Magic: A History of Books and Their Readers,' by Emma Smith
NONFICTION: A delightful examination of the symbol and meaning behind physical texts, for people who love books.
Review: 'Olav Audunsson: Crossroads' by Sigrid Undset, translated by Tiina Nunnally
FICTION: In the third in the series, Olav Audunsson is tormented, miserable and grieving — until war begins.
Review: 'Life Is Everywhere,' by Lucy Ives
FICTION: A brainy, multifarious campus novel that's one of the year's most impressive books in any genre.
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Q&A: Katherine Corcoran discusses 'In the Mouth of the Wolf'
Tuesday Read: Author Katherine Corcoran digs deep into the killing of a Mexican reporter.
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Bob Dylan apologizes for book controversy in rare public statement
The legendary musician says he used an autopen to sign special-edition copies of his new book.
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Review: 'The Traces,' by Mairead Small Staid
NONFICTION: A revelatory exploration for anyone, and particularly Italophiles, who has ever yearned for, wondered at and hoped to recapture those moments of past happiness.
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Minneapolis poet Heid E. Erdrich wins Bobbitt Poetry Prize
The Library of Congress will honor her for "Little Big Bully" in December.
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Review: 'Best of Friends,' by Kamila Shamsie
FICTION: Two friends move from Karachi to London, and their friendship drifts.
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Politics
In new book, Mike Pence reflects on Donald Trump and Jan. 6
Former Vice President Mike Pence describes the president's pressure campaign on him to intervene in certifying the election.
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Review: 'Case Study,' by Graeme Macrae Burnet
FICTION: A brilliant multilayered novel about a woman who plays a dangerous game with a psychotherapist in 1960s London.
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Review: 'Bigger Than Bravery,' edited by Valerie Boyd
NONFICTION: A vivid and varied collection of short essays and poems by notable Black writers.
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Review: 'Dickens and Prince: A Particular Kind of Genius,' by Nick Hornby
NONFICTION: A breezy, entertaining look at the similarities between two artistic greats, a 19th-century Brit and a 20th-century Minnesotan.
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Review: 'Shirley Hazzard: A Writing Life,' by Brigitta Olubas
NONFICTION: A fascinating biography of the prize-winning Australian author of "The Great Fire."
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Review: 'Flight,' by Lynn Steger Strong
FICTION: Three siblings reunite for the first Christmas after their mother's death.
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Louise Erdrich wins Berresford Prize
The $50,000 prize goes to people who have worked to champion other artists and writers.
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Review: 'The Song of the Cell,' by Siddhartha Mukherjee
NONFICTION: A Pulitzer Prize-winning writer and physician returns with a sweeping, erudite story of cells, the basic unit of all life.
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