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Author Marlon James critiques Minnesota racism with viral Facebook post
The St. Paul author writes about what it is like to be black in Minnesota.
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REVIEW: 'Our Short History,' by Lauren Grodstein
FICTION: Lauren Grodstein's poignant new novel unfolds as a letter from a dying mother to her to her young son.
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Review: 'You Don't Have to Say You Love Me,' by Sherman Alexie
NONFICTION: In this memoir, Sherman Alexie paints a frank and unflinching eulogy of his mother.
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REVIEW: 'The Prisoner in His Palace,' by Will Bardenwerper
NONFICTION: An intriguing portrait of the military policemen who guarded the Iraqi leader before his execution.
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Review: 'Guidebook to Relative Strangers,' by Camille T. Dungy
NONFICTION: In a stirring debut, poet reflects on raising a child while pursuing a career.
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Review: 'Camanchaca,' by Diego Zúñiga, translated from the Spanish by Megan McDowell
FICTION: A young man drives across a desert with his father, pondering his broken family.
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REVIEW: 'The Essex Serpent,' by Sarah Perry
FICTION: An enchanting British novel about a legendary beast and an intense relationship between a scientifically minded woman and a devout vicar.
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REVIEW: 'Marcel's Letters,' by Carolyn Porter
NONFICTION: A White Bear Lake graphic designer seeks the story behind a trove of letters from a Stillwater antique store.
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Tracy K. Smith is the new U.S. poet laureate
Three of Smith's books have been published by Minneapolis' Graywolf Press, including the Pulitzer-winner "Life on Mars."
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Kate DiCamillo: Take a boomerang, leave a boomerang?
Minneapolis author seeds Little Free Libraries with "Kindness Boomerangs" from Indonesian schoolchildren.
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REVIEW: 'Camino Island,' by John Grisham
FICTION: Fitzgerald manuscripts disappear in John Grisham's latest mystery — which is really all about writing.
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Review: 'Hue 1968: A Turning Point of the American War in Vietnam,' by Mark Bowden
NONFICTION: "Hue 1968" is a masterful blood-and-guts account of the decisive battle in the Vietnam War.
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