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Review: 'Sound Like Trapped Thunder,' by Jessica Lind Peterson
Nonfiction: A sparkling collection of essays about animals and humans.
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Review: 'Philip Roth: The Biography,' by Blake Bailey
NONFICTION: Biography devotes far more space to the author's marriages and sex life than to his literary legacy.
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Review: 'The Five Wounds,' by Kirstin Valdez Quade
FICTION: This vibrant novel showcases one man's road to redemption.
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Review: 'The Wild Silence,' by Raynor Winn
NONFICTION: Both sequel and prequel to "The Salt Path," Raynor Winn's new memoir is about the power of nature.
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Review: 'A Most Remarkable Creature,' by Jonathan Meiburg
NONFICTION: A fascinating look at the striated caracara, an endangered bird of prey.
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Alexs Pate is this year's Kay Sexton Award recipient
The writer, educator and mentor has devoted his life to teaching, writing and correcting racial imbalances in literature and classrooms.
Local
Brooks: Lil Nas X satanic panic disrupts Minnesota launch of children's book
Sheletta Brundidge tells how song inspired autistic son's journey to speech.
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Review: 'The Leave-Takers,' by Steven Wingate
FICTION: Amid much death, a troubled couple create a life worth fighting for.
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Larry McMurtry, novelist of the American West, dies at 84
In "Lonesome Dove," "The Last Picture Show" and dozens more novels and screenplays, he offered unromantic depictions of a long mythologized region.
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Review: 'Libertie,' by Kaitlyn Greenidge
FICTION: Examining the dichotomies of slavery and freedom, body and spirit, duty and forgiveness.
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Review: 'Firekeeper's Daughter,' by Angeline Boulley
YOUNG ADULT: A young Native woman gets entangled in a romance and an FBI probe amid a meth epidemic.
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Review: 'When Women Invented Television,' by Jennifer Keishin Armstrong
NONFICTION: A journalist shines a welcome spotlight on four female pioneers of the nascent television industry.
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Review: 'A Little Devil in America,' by Hanif Abdurraqib
NONFICTION: A remarkable and original collection of criticism and memoir about Black performance in America.
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Review: 'The Agitators,' by Dorothy Wickenden
NONFICTION: The stories of three strong women who changed the course of history.
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Race and identity fuel Naima Coster's extraordinary stories of everyday lives
"Writing is the thing that gives my life the greatest joy," says Talking Volumes guest.
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Around the Region
- Maia Kobabe's 'Gender Queer' tops list of most criticized library books for third straight year
- Top publisher teams with top maker of bilingual materials
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