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Review: 'Eleanor,' by David Michaelis
NONFICTION: This biography is filled with fascinating information but doesn't quite get at the heart of who she was.
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Review: 'Leave the World Behind,' by Rumaan Alam
FICTION: Two couples and two teenagers hunker down in Long Island during a mysterious, frightening national emergency.
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Review: 'The Searcher,' by Tana French
FICTION: An American cop runs into a wall of secrets in this new mystery from Tana French.
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Famed author Claudia Rankine brings her conversation about race to Minnesotans via Zoom
Watch the writer's appearance as she opened our Talking Volumes book series.
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Excerpt from Sarah M. Broom's 'The Yellow House'
Read a passage from 'The Yellow House' by Sarah M. Broom.
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'Song of Hiawatha' poet Henry Wadsworth Longfellow's influence extended far beyond south Mpls.
NONFICTION: A new biography shows how Longfellow left his mark on the world — and on Minneapolis.
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Review: 'A Libertarian Walks Into a Bear,' by Matthew Hongoltz-Hetling
NONFICTION: A New Hampshire town takes on a libertarian experiment with humorous and tragic results.
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Review: 'Just Like You,' by Nick Hornby
FICTION: A warm and witty novel about a relationship between two people from different backgrounds.
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Review: 'Likes,' by Sarah Shun-Lien Bynum
FICTION: Sarah Bynum engages with race and class in her new story collection.
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Review: 'The Man Who Ran Washington,' by Peter Baker and Susan Glasser
NONFICTION: An informative, nuanced, judicious biography of James Baker, one of the most influential unelected public officials in late 20th-century America.
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Review: 'Jack,' by Marilynne Robinson
FICTION: In her new Gilead novel, Marilynne Robinson writes about a relationship between a white man and a Black woman.
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REVIEW: Ivy Pochoda's excellent "These Women" illuminates those who live in the margins
FICTION: Ivy Pochoda's excellent "These Women" illuminates those who live in the margins.
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