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Love both trees and poetry? Has south Minneapolis got a place for you!

Passers-by can leave their thoughts and take off with someone else’s at the Little Free Poet Tree.
December 17, 2024
photo of two men standing by a tree on a snowy day
Books

Review: In new collection, a book store attracts the wrong kind of customers — the murdering kind

Fiction: Jeffrey Deaver, Laura Lippman and others contribute 12 tales of holiday mayhem.
AuthoredChris Hewitt
December 17, 2024
Lyndsay Faye Author Photo by Gabriel Lenher
Books

The story behind the singalong holiday classic that shall reign forever and ever

Nonfiction: “Every Valley” traces the history of the creation of Handel’s “Messiah.”
AuthoredHamilton Cain
December 12, 2024
Baroque expert Jeanette Sorrell will conduct Handel's "Messiah" with the Singers and the SPCO.
News & Politics

Meet the new owner of St. Paul’s Black Garnet Books

The bookstore, inspired by the local reckoning over race following the murder of George Floyd, sold this fall as founder Dionne Sims looks toward other dreams. The store will remain Black-owned.
December 10, 2024
Movies

Review: Timothee Chalamet’s performance as Bob Dylan in ‘A Complete Unknown’ sings, but movie hits some flat notes

Inspired by Elijah Wald’s book, “Dylan Goes Electric,” the Dec. 25 release feels too much like other biopics.
AuthoredChris Hewitt
December 10, 2024
photo of Timothee Chalamet as Bob Dylan, in an early recording session
Books

Meet the St. Louis Park widower who wrote a picture book to tell his grandchildren about their late grandma

“Christmas Sun” suggests a way to remember loved ones who are no longer with us at the holidays.
December 10, 2024
photo depicts a man holding a baby
Books

Short stories look at those moments when living our lives feels unsettlingly like time traveling

Fiction: Tales in “How We Know Our Time Travelers” are told by sensitive, self-effacing narrators.
Author Anita Felicelli is photographed near a shoreline
Books

This fall’s book-to-movie adaptations range from great to Tom Hanks

“Conclave,” “The Wild Robot” and “Nickel Boys” prove fine books can inspire terrific films. But that’s not always the case.
AuthoredChris Hewitt
December 7, 2024
Agriculture

A divisive factory farm battle in southern Minnesota takes center stage in new book

Nonfiction: Sonja Trom Eayrs has lots to say about where farming is headed.
December 5, 2024
photo of author Sonja Trom Eayrs
Books

It’s Taylor Swift’s world and we’re just living in it

Nonfiction: The essays in “Heartbreak Is the National Anthem” make a case for her excellence, not just as artist but as a person.
AuthoredChris Hewitt
December 2, 2024
Books

In ‘The Rest Is Memory,’ a photo drives novelist to imagine the life of girl who died in Auschwitz

Fiction: This blend of research and imagination is a masterful, devastating, portrait of a Polish girl.
AuthoredMalcolm Forbes
December 2, 2024
black and white photo of author Lily Tuck
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