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Our books editor has the tea on how we choose what to review

Louise Erdrich and Kate DiCamillo are easy calls, but how does the Minnesota Star Tribune books editor choose between the 3 million books published each year?
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5 books we can’t wait to read in July

A pair of Minnesota writers and a book that may be more helpful than aspirin are on the way to a bookshelf near you.
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Review: ‘Lunch Therapy’ podcaster Adam Roberts’ comic novel is about a ‘Food Person’

Fiction: She gets a job ghostwriting a star’s cookbook and things go south from there.
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St. Paul writer Christopher Tradowsky talks about his witty, sexy new novel

Local fiction: “Midnight at the Cinema Palace” is set in the ’90s in San Francisco — when the author lived there, too.
June 18, 2025
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'V is for Venom' shows how Agatha Christie killed hundreds with poisons

Science influencer Kathryn Harkup explains how mystery writer Agatha Christie knew so much about deadly poisons.
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James Rebanks befriends Norwegian birds in 'The Place of Tides'

"The Shepherd's Life" author James Rebanks refreshes himself with a trip to Norway and inspiration from a "duck woman" on an island there in his new book.
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Star Tribune publisher's memoir is 'How I Found Myself in the Midwest'

Steve Grove writes about returning home, growing a family, finding kinship, helping Minnesota weather the COVID pandemic and reinvention.
June 15, 2025

Minneapolis writer Kate DiCamillo will be at August screening of ‘Because of Winn-Dixie,’ based on her book

She’ll celebrate the 25th anniversary of her debut novel at the Riverview Theater.
June 11, 2025
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'Death at the White Hart' is a tricky novel from 'Broadchurch' creator

A murder in a coastal English village is the setting for "Doctor Who" showrunner Chris Chibnall's atmospheric debut novel.
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Review: Tragedies pile up in Wally Lamb’s new novel, but will readers care?

Fiction: “The River Is Waiting” is a conventional white-dude-goes-to-prison book with the expected plot points.
In Greek mythology, Icarus tries to fly on waxed, feathered wings too close to the sun and falls into the sea. In "Landscape with the Fall of Icarus," thought to be by Pieter Bruegel the Elder, Icarus is at lower right. The painting is referenced in W.H. Auden's poem named after a Brussels museum. In the poem, Auden reflects on how big things can happen as others remain unaware or indifferent.

'Day of the Jackal' author Frederick Forsyth dies at 86

Frederick Forsyth, the British author of ''The Day of the Jackal" and other bestselling thrillers, has died after a brief illness, his literary agent said Monday. He was 86.
June 9, 2025

24 terrific books for the beach, cabin or lawn chair you’ll want to read this summer

A comfy chair, sunglasses, an Arnold Palmer and these 24 books — from S.A. Cosby, Rachel Joyce, “one of the best books of the year” and more — are your ticket to a great season.
June 6, 2025
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