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- Chris Hewitt, The Minnesota Star Tribune
Kathryn Stockett has written a huge book about three 20th century Mississippi women who come together despite their differences. No, I’m not talking about “The Help.” Coming 17 years after that blockbuster, Stockett’s second novel has a lot in common with her first. “The Calamity Club” also …
- Publishers Weekly, Tribune News Service
Here are the bestsellers for the week that ended Saturday, May 9, compiled from data from independent and chain bookstores, book wholesalers and independent distributors nationwide, powered by Circana BookScan © 2026 Circana. (Reprinted from Publishers Weekly, published by PWxyz LLC. © 2026,…
- Chris Hewitt, The Minnesota Star Tribune
MINNEAPOLIS — It’s no coincidence that all of the protagonists of the 13 stories in Julie Schumacher’s collection, “Patient, Female,” are women. The St. Paul writer and University of Minnesota professor of creative writing and literature hit bestseller lists with three novels about Jason Fit…
- Chris Hewitt, The Minnesota Star Tribune
How entertaining is “City of Iron and Ivy”? I didn’t particularly respond to a key element of the book but I loved it, anyway. St. Paul writer Thomas Kent West’s debut is set in the latter half of the 19th century, mostly in an alternative version of London (the queen is Viscaria, not Victor…
- Chris Hewitt, The Minnesota Star Tribune
ST. PAUL, Minn. -- It’s no coincidence that all of the protagonists of the 13 stories in Julie Schumacher’s collection, “Patient, Female,” are women. The St. Paul writer and University of Minnesota professor of creative writing and literature hit bestseller lists with three novels about Jaso…
- Publishers Weekly, Tribune News Service
Here are the bestsellers for the week that ended Saturday, May 2, compiled from data from independent and chain bookstores, book wholesalers and independent distributors nationwide, powered by Circana BookScan © 2026 Circana. (Reprinted from Publishers Weekly, published by PWxyz LLC. © 2026,…
Here are the bestsellers for the week that ended Saturday, May 2, compiled from data from independent and chain bookstores, book wholesalers and independent distributors nationwide, powered by Circana BookScan © 2026 Circana. (Reprinted from Publishers Weekly, published by PWxyz LLC. © 2026, PWxyz LLC.) HARDCOVER FICTION 1. "Yesteryear: A Novel" by Caro Claire Burke (Knopf) Last week: 1 2. ...
Here are the bestsellers for the week that ended Saturday, May 2, compiled from data from independent and chain bookstores, book wholesalers and independent distributors nationwide, powered by Circana BookScan © 2026 Circana. (Reprinted from Publishers Weekly, published by PWxyz LLC. © 2026, PWxyz LLC.) HARDCOVER FICTION 1. Yesteryear. Caro Claire Burke. Knopf 2. The Correspondent. Virginia ...
NEW YORK — “The Book of Mormon” has been forced to cancel additional upcoming performances after a fire damaged the Eugene O’Neill Theater in Midtown earlier this week, officials announced. Producers and ATG Entertainment, which operates the theater, said in a statement Wednesday night that future shows would be canceled through May 17. It added that it will provide fans with an update in the ...
Like Cynthia D’Aprix Sweeney’s just-published “Lake Effect,” bestselling writer Tom Perrotta’s “Ghost Town” is about life in the suburbs in the 1970s. Sweeney’s book was set near Rochester, New York, but Perrotta’s is southeast of there in New Jersey. Both books deal with young people who are adrift, and both capture a time of rapidly changing mores and politics (on the other hand: is there ...
“Tiny interactions are antidepressants,” someone says in the new Maria Bamford documentary, “Paralyzed by Hope.” That sentiment kept sneaking into my head as I read Elizabeth Strout’s glorious new novel, “The Things We Never Say.” Like all of the books by Strout, who won the Pulitzer Prize for “Olive Kitteridge,” “The Things We Never Say” is full of tiny interactions that buoy her characters. ...
During troubled times, books and stories are sometimes seen as a distraction from more important matters, says Jason Reynolds. “I hear this. It’s like, ‘We don’t have time for books,’ says the award-winning author, rejecting the notion before offering his own thoughts on what stories and film and art provide. “Books can be medicine,” says Reynolds, speaking from his Washington, D.C. home via ...
CHICAGO — Zayd Ayers Dohrn picked up my phone and read the email. He removed his sunglasses and leaned into the screen. I had a bunch more just like it, I told him, the general message all the same, that Zayd Ayers Dohrn is the son of domestic terrorists from Chicago, and why write a story about someone from a family like that? The emails came last fall, just after I wrote about Tom Morello of ...
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