Books
Hennepin County libraries buy 700K books a year – here are the most popular of 2017
Among the most sought-after of the year: Instant Pot cookbooks.
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Review: 'Bound,' by James McKean
NONFICTION: James McKean recalls the histories and mysteries of the women who have meant the most to him.
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17 books we're looking forward to reading in 2018
Have you read your Christmas books and are wondering what's coming up next year?
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Review: 'I Can't Breathe: A Killing on Bay Street,' by Matt Taibbi
NONFICTION: Rolling Stone writer Matt Taibbi examines Eric Garner's death in Staten Island.
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Review: 'Furnishing Eternity,' by David Giffels
NONFICTION: An affecting memoir traces the building of a coffin and the tender pull of a father and son's relationship.
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Review: 'Headbanger' and 'Sad Bastard,' by Hugo Hamilton
FICTION: Two brisk crime novels set in 1990s feature a cop prone to acerbic rants.
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Review: 'Silence in the Age of Noise,' by Erling Kagge, translated from the Norwegian by Becky L. Crook
NONFICTION: A Norwegian explorer and publisher muses upon the benefits of silence in today's rushed and urban social-media era.
Movies
13 reasons to get excited about Twin Cities arts in 2018
Star Tribune critics and editors pick their favorite art and entertainment events for 2018.
Books
Holidays at home and the space of difference, love and loss
Curl up and read this tale by Minnesota writer Shannon Gibney as you celebrate the season.
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Review: 'Christmas: A Biography,' by Judith Flanders
NONFICTION: An in-depth and entertaining history of the Christmas holiday through the ages.
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Review: 'Ramp Hollow: The Ordeal of Appalachia,' by Steven Stoll
NONFICTION: A scholar examines how people lose their land to banks and corporations.
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Review: 'It's All Relative,' by A.J. Jacobs
NONFICTION: Humorist's serious project explores lineage, race and evolution.
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Review: 'The Gifted Generation,' by David Goldfield
NONFICTION: Historian recounts the federal government's role in helping folks achieve the American dream.
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REVIEW: "The Out-of-Sorts: New and Selected Stories," by Gary Fincke
FICTION: Gary Fincke's stories are set in parts of the Rust Belt where people are poor and on the verge of crazy, or desperate.
Books
Erica Spitzer Rasmussen wins 2018 Minn. Book Artist Award
Her mixed-media book is made of love letters sent between her maternal grandparents in the 1930s.
Movies
Owen WIlson-Ed Helms' 'Father Figures' is both dull and offensive
Futile attempt at comedy is sexist, racist and pointless.
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