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Colson Whitehead, Macalester's Marlon James finalists for fiction award
Macalester professor is one of ten longlisted finalists for the National Book Award in fiction.
Music
Rautavaara, Carter, Elgar highlight Minnesota Orchestra's season opener
REVIEW: Osmo Vänskä conducts a solemn, bold and at times playful program to launch a new season.
TV & Media
Music
Pick Six: Praise for Ric Ocasek, Iggy Pop, Linda Ronstadt doc and more
Pick Six is a half-dozen cool things in music, from two points of view.
Stage & Arts
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Lileks: All you ever wanted to know (and more) about your power outage
Thanks, power company, for making me worry.
TV & Media
Who will win? Your cheat sheet for the Emmys
Women are in the forefront of the most intriguing races.
Books
Review: 'The Stars and the Blackness Between Them,' by Junauda Petrus
YOUNG ADULT: When a teenager falls in love with another girl, her mother banishes her to grow up in Minneapolis.
Books
Review: 'Gun Island,' by Amitav Ghosh
FICTION: Amitav Ghosh's novel puts a Brooklyn book dealer square in the middle of the heart of climate change.
Books
Review: 'Year of the Monkey,' by Patti Smith
NONFICTION: Patti Smith's road memoir starts slowly, but sharpens and builds as she goes.
Books
Review: 'The Dutch House,' by Ann Patchett
FICTION: Ann Patchett's new novel reads like a memoir, as two grown children reminisce about their childhoods in a big house in Philadelphia.
Books
Review: 'Beverly, Right Here,' by Kate DiCamillo
MIDDLE-GRADE FICTION: Kate DiCamillo's third novel about the Three Rancheros is a big-hearted coming-of-age tale.
Eat & Drink
Hungry at the Mall of America? Check out these 3 new spots
What's new at the Mall of America? Plenty.
Movies
The 10 movies you won't want to miss this fall
Fall's most anticipated films include Harriet Tubman, Judy Garland and two Minnesota screenwriters.
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