Chris Hewitt
Critic / Editor
BooksArmed with a degree in the lucrative field of history, Chris has written for publications that vary from a small-town newspaper to a city magazine to national sites. He's probably reading a good book right this minute.
Latest from Chris Hewitt
6 books, including Kao Kalia Yang’s latest, that take a look at home
It can be complicated, but Dorothy was right that there’s no place like it.
February 4, 2026
Review: The ‘Warning Signs’ are there in entertaining mountain thriller
Fiction: Tracy Sierra’s follow-up to claustrophobic “Nightwatching” involves avalanches and bad parenting.
February 4, 2026
Enemies become lovers! Strangers share a bed! Discover the tropes of romance.
In the month of love, Minnesota romance novelists share their favorite ways to connect sweethearts.
January 29, 2026
Review: ‘Good People’ is the year’s first great novel
Fiction: The page-turner is about a family torn between life in the U.S. and in their native Afghanistan.
January 27, 2026
Review: A WW II serial killer in ‘The Typewriter and the Guillotine’
Nonfiction: It’s the story of a legendary journalist and a less-interesting criminal.
January 21, 2026
St. Paul writer Sam Tschida knows about spies, clogged toilets and smut
Local fiction: Her latest, about a mom who becomes a spy, is “Gabby Greene Knows Whodunit.”
January 19, 2026
These sweet books can bring a little kindness into your life
Ten titles to remind you of the good in the world.
January 18, 2026
If you’re feeling rage and despair, social media is doing its job
A St. Thomas professor says it can be healthy to step away.
January 15, 2026
Review: The rich are different - and awful - in ‘The Infamous Gilberts’
Fiction: Angela Tomaski’s witty, elegant debut takes readers on a tour of an English mansion where family members treated each other very badly.
January 15, 2026
This novelist’s family fled Laos and she ended up in the Twin Cities
Fiction: V.T. Bidania’s “A Year Without Home” was inspired by her family’s flight after the Vietnam War.
January 12, 2026
Review: ‘Hilarious’ book tells us how to avoid dying
Nonfiction: An emergency room doctor offers “99 Ways to Die: and How to Avoid Them.”
January 10, 2026
After humiliation came the Star Tribune, then 1,789 potential happy endings
Local fiction: Inspired by a column in the paper (then, just the Star), a Lakeville writer dreamed up a romantic fairy tale.
January 6, 2026
