Books
October 22, 2018
Deni Ellis Bechard

Journalist's quest informs a modern 'Heart of Darkness'

FICTION: "White" blends parody and memoir as a writer seeks a corrupt conservationist.
Books
October 22, 2018

Reviews: 'The Unpunished Vice: A Life in Reading,' by Edmund White, and 'A Place for Us,' by Fatima Farheen Mirza

Books
October 19, 2018

Readers recommend books: 'Naming the Stars'

Books
October 19, 2018
Audiobooks

Audiobooks: Michael Lewis, Dan Fesperman and Thrity Umrigar

Books
October 19, 2018

Review: 'Love Is Blind,' by William Boyd

FICTION: A sweeping and engaging novel about a piano tuner's love for the wrong woman in fin-de-siècle Europe.
Books
October 19, 2018
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Review: 'Interior States: Essays,' by Meghan O'Gieblyn

NONFICTION: Essays ponder stoicism, pseudoscience, neo-millennialist Christianity, marketing and more.
Books
October 19, 2018
The day after Election Day 1940, Republican hopeful Wendell Willkie read the bad news. Associated Press

Review: 'The Improbable Wendell Willkie,' by David Levering Lewis

NONFICTION: Wendell Willkie's political career was tragically short, but he had a huge impact at a critical moment in our nation's history.
Books
October 19, 2018

Review: 'Listen to the Marriage,' by John Jay Osborn

FICTION: John Jay Osborn's tense, brief novel mimics the intimacy of counseling sessions.
Books
October 19, 2018

Review: 'Little,' by Edward Carey

FICTION: Vibrant and powerfully imagined "Little" paints revolution-era France.
Books
October 18, 2018
Todd Bol helped Eddye Watkins erect a Little Free Library on her yard in Minneapolis in October 2013.

Todd Bol, creator of the Little Free Library movement, dies at 62

Books
October 18, 2018
Todd Bol built the first Little Free Library nine years ago. Now they're in 88 countries.

After terminal cancer diagnosis, Little Free Library founder feels like 'most successful person I know'

Todd Bol reflects on the movement he sparked, and the seeds he planted in neighborhoods across America — and beyond.
Movies
October 18, 2018
M.I.A. in "Matanga/Maya/M.I.A."

Documentary explores hip-hop star M.I.A.'s worldview

Filmmaking friend explores M.I.A.'s unique musical pedigree.
Books
October 16, 2018

New York Times bestsellers

Books
October 16, 2018

Review: 'Melmoth,' by Sarah Perry

FICTION: In Sarah Perry's taut and blackly playful "Melmoth," a mythical figure becomes all too real.
Books
October 15, 2018

Twin Cities area book events Oct. 14-21

Books
October 15, 2018

Reviews: 'Rainsongs,' by Sue Hubbard, and 'The Three Escapes of Hannah Arendt,' by Ken Krimstein

Books
October 12, 2018

Booksellers recommend books: Subtext on the Broken Earth trilogy

Books
October 12, 2018
Bookshelves in the loft of Paul Banks, the lead vocalist of Interpol, in Manhattan's East Village, Aug. 21, 2018. When he's not at his home in Panama,

Should newlyweds combine their book collections?

Many couples maintain strictly separate stacks through years and decades, while others find a way to marry different tastes.
Books
October 12, 2018

Review: 'Bitterroot: A Salish Memoir of Transracial Adoption,' by Susan Devan Harness

NONFICTION: Susan Devan Harness relates the challenges she faced trying to connect with her Native family.
Books
October 12, 2018

Review: 'Good and Mad: The Revolutionary Power of Women's Anger,' by Rebecca Traister

NONFICTION: Rebecca Traister offers a bracing, virtuosic examination of female anger and its power to make history.

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