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Review: 'Vesper Flights,' by Helen Macdonald
NONFICTION: An insightful collection of essays about our relationship with the natural world.
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In her new book 'Just Us,' Claudia Rankine invites us all to talk about white privilege
Silence on the issue equals "the constant death of Black people," says the first guest in this year's virtual Talking Volumes series,
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REVIEW: 'Here We Are,' by Graham Swift
FICTION: A quietly brilliant novel about three entertainers and their relationships onstage and off in 1950s England.
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REVIEW: 'Conditional Citizens: On Belonging in America,' by Laila Lalami
NONFICTION: Exploring the exclusion of vast swaths of the population from the basic privileges of citizenship.
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REVIEW: 'Sex With Presidents,' by Eleanor Herman
NONFICTION: A books that asks: Does wanting to be president also make men cheat?
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REVIEW: 'Black in the Middle,' edited by Terrion L. Williamson
NONFICTION: A new anthology edited by a University of Minnesota professor brings many voices to define what it means to be Black in the Heartland.
22 years, 120 great authors: The complete list of Talking Volumes guests, 2000-21
From Atwood to Wilkerson, the Star Tribune-MPR series has spotlighted some of the finest writers of the past two decades.
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Pulitzer-winning writer Isabel Wilkerson joins Talking Volumes lineup
The author of "Caste" will close out the virtual series of literary conversations Oct. 13.
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With an all-woman lineup, this year's Talking Volumes book series goes virtual
The annual series will deliver authors Yaa Gyasi, Helen Macdonald, Claudia Rankine and Sarah Broom via Zoom.
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Review: 'Homeland Elegies,' by Ayad Akhtar
FICTION: A playwright reflects on Muslim American identity in a post-Sept. 11 world in this searing work of autofiction.
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5 Minnesota literary organizations receive critical COVID grants
The grant money will help them ride out the economic downturn brought about by COVID-19.
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REVIEW: 'Squeeze Me,' by Carl Hiaasen
FICTION: A woman vanishes near the president's Winter White House. Could the python have done it?
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Yaa Gyasi talks about the tension between science and faith in new novel 'Transcendent Kingdom'
Yaa Gyasi's second novel sprang from a friend's research, and her own interest in love, science and religion.
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