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Looking for something fun to do in Minnesota in 2022? Check out these 13 picks
Our critics offer their picks for Minnesota's 13 hottest arts and entertainment events in the new year.
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Review: 'A Net For Small Fishes,' by Lucy Jago
Tuesday Read: Lucy Jago's story fittingly takes place in the corrupt, licentious court of England's James I.
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Review: 'Essays Two,' by Lydia Davis
Lydia Davis' second essay collection is an engaging and erudite exploration of the pleasure and pains of language and translation.
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Review: 'The Dawn of Everything,' by David Graeber and David Wengrow
"The Dawn of Everything" is a vibrant if uneven survey of inequity through the ages.
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Review: 'The Dickens Boy,' by Thomas Keneally
At 16, Charles Dickens' son immigrated to Australia. What became of him there will transfix readers in this novel by the author of "Schindler's List."
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Review: 'Literary Alchemist: The Writing Life of Evan S. Connell,' by Steve Paul
Steve Paul's biography of Evan S. Connell parses a brilliant and hard-to-pin-down iconoclast.
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Review: 'A Guardian Angel Recalls,' by Willem Frederik Hermans, translated by David Colmer
A dark and provocative wartime novel about a guilty man and his guardian angel.
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2005 interview: Joan Didion on her 'Year of Magical Thinking'
The late Star Tribune writer Kristin Tillotson journeyed to New York in 2005 to interview the author, who died Thursday, about her book on grief.
TV & Media
Former Minnesotan gets 'meta' about his beloved 'The Office' character Kevin
Former Minnesotan Brian Baumgartner looks back at the NBC sitcom's legacy.
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Review: 'Sex Cult Nun,' by Faith Jones
Jones, who escaped the Children of God cult, found a different kind of faith, in books and, later, the law — and herself.
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Bookmark: In praise of physical books
All kinds of books are good, but physical books can have a magical beauty.
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Review: 'Mothers, Fathers, and Others,' by Siri Hustvedt
Sparkling essays on a wide range of topics from a self-described "intellectual vagabond."
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Review: 'The Fortune Men,' by Nadifa Mohamed
The wrong man: Inside the world of a Somali sailor hanged for murder.
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Review: 'Bright Burning Things,' by Lisa Harding
A probing character study with insightful perspectives on addiction and single parenthood.
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Review: 'Tell Me How to Be,' by Neel Patel
A mother and son hiding decades-old secrets struggle to harmonize in Neel Patel's first novel.
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