Duluth
Poetry master who took inspiration from Minnesota winter, Louis Jenkins dies at 77
Often associated with Duluth, Jenkins had worked as a librarian, truck driver and commercial fisherman while publishing.
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Review: 'Home Now: How 6,000 Refugees Transformed an American Town,' by Cynthia Anderson
NONFICTION: Cynthia Anderson's book traces the successes and tensions that a new population of immigrants sparked.
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Review: Joseph Conrad's 'Heart of Darkness,' by Peter Kuper
GRAPHIC NOVEL: This New Yorker artist's adaptation of "Heart of Darkness" highlights the wounds of colonialism.
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Review: 'The Man Who Saw Everything,' by Deborah Levy
FICTION: An egotistical academic tries to understand why he's seeing images from what looks like the future.
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Review: 'The Hardest Lot of Men,' by Joseph C. Fitzharris
NONFICTION: The little-known story of a Minnesota regiment is a welcome addition to Civil War histories.
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Review: 'Jakarta,' by Rodrigo Marquez Tizano, translated from the Spanish by Thomas Bunstead
FICTION: The narrator of this haunting novel chronicles the breakdown of society in a pandemic.
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Bookmark: Readers find that good books make vacations better
Books and vacations bind in our memories.
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Review: 'The Zookeepers' War,' by J.W. Mohnhaupt, translated from the German by Shelley Frisch
NONFICTION: A fascinating account of a competition between zookeepers in East and West Berlin.
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Review: "Twenty-one Truths About Love," by Matthew Dicks
FICTION: This story of a slacker bookseller — told in lists — has much going for it. Let us count the ways.
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Review: 'Last Letters: The Prison Correspondence 1944-1945,' by Freya and Helmuth James Von Moltke
NONFICTION: An intimate and affecting correspondence between a woman and her imprisoned husband awaiting execution by the Nazis.
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Review: 'Hymns of the Republic,' by S.C. Gwynne
NONFICTION: A personal and gripping account of the last months of the Civil War.
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It takes a village
The group of artists behind the John Coy book, "My Mighty Journey" will win the 2020 Minnesota Book Artist award.
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