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Q&A: With Spike Carlsen, author of "A Walk Around the Block"
NONFICTION: Spike Carlsen's new book sheds light on the extraordinary in the ordinary.
Review: 'Memorial,' by Bryan Washington
FICTION: Bryan Washington's debut novel has a lot going for it, but his 2019 story collection is a hard act to follow.
Bookmark: Readers love tips on what to read – mostly
Redemption
"Redemption's Run": Chapter 25, the end of the story
"Redemption's Run": Chapter 24 closes
"Redemption's Run": Chapter 24 continues
"Redemption's Run": Chapter 24 begins
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New York Times bestsellers
FICTION 1. The Return, by Nicholas Sparks. (Grand Central) A doctor serving in the Navy in Afghanistan goes back to North Carolina, where two…
The next Minnesota book club pick: Louise Erdrich's 'Plague of Doves'
E-books and audiobooks are available for free downloads from the public library.
REVIEW: 'His & Hers,' by Alice Feeney, and 'The Residence,' by Andrew Pyper
His & HersBy Alice Feeney. (Flatiron, 304 pages, $27.99.)Since Gillian Flynn's "Gone Girl," the domestic thriller in which male and female partners take turns seeing…
Review: 'Bestiary,' by K-Ming Chang
FICTION: K-Ming Chang's debut novel sets the immigrant novel on its head — and gives it a tail.
Review: 'The Silence,' by Don DeLillo
FICTION: Don DeLillo's lean new novel imagines a near-future catastrophic event that echoes other traumas in the American psyche.
Quarantine Read: Readers recommend Jane Austen and John Steinbeck
I was reading “Catastrophe,” a nonfiction book about a super volcano eruption that led to the bubonic plague reaching the Mediterranean for the first time…
Review: 'The Cold Millions,' by Jess Walter
FICTION: An engrossing novel about the labor battles that shook early 20th-century America.
Review: 'A Lover's Discourse,' by Xiaolu Guo
FICTION: An intellectual novel about an expat's challenges in Brexit Britain.
New York Times bestsellers
FICTION 1. The Return, by Nicholas Sparks. (Grand Central) A doctor serving in the Navy in Afghanistan goes back to North Carolina where two…
St. Paul poet Michael Kleber-Diggs wins national poetry prize
Kleber-Diggs won the Max Ritvo Poetry Prize, which awards him $10,000 and publication.
Americans shouldn't be afraid to inspect our collective 'basement,' says famed author Isabel Wilkerson
She discusses her new book about the structural roots of racism for a Talking Volumes audience.
REVIEWS: 'The Vacation,' by T.M. Logan, and 'The Yellow Bird Sings,' by Jennifer Rosner
The Vacation By T.M. Logan. (St. Martin’s Press, 384 pages, $28.99.) The choice seemed simple enough. Four women, best friends since childhood, want a…
8 reasons we're still reading mystery writer Agatha Christie after 100 years
A century after her first book appeared, we still love Agatha Christie.
A Q&A with the newest winner of the Nobel Prize for literature, Louise Glück
Poet Louise Glück spoke to the New York Times last week, a few hours after the news of her Nobel Prize broke. Below are edited…
7 takeaways from 'Melania and Me,' by the First Lady's former friend
Even in its heyday, the relationship between Stephanie Winston Wolkoff and Melania Trump was rife with red flags.