Twisted at the Root by Ellen Hart
Published in August 2019, Twisted at the Root is Ellen Hart’s 26th novel in the Jane Lawless mystery series. Hart’s mastery of the mystery genre and the unique world of… Read more »
A Fan Letter on Minnesota Writers
Published in August 2019, Twisted at the Root is Ellen Hart’s 26th novel in the Jane Lawless mystery series. Hart’s mastery of the mystery genre and the unique world of… Read more »
Originally written and illustrated in 1948 by Ingri & Edgar Parin d’Aulaire, Nils is a children’s book in its first reprinting by the University of Minnesota Press. More than seventy… Read more »
From the Grave by David Housewright is the latest in the long-running Mac McKenzie series. This novel is a suspenseful mystery, with detailed descriptions of the Twin Cities setting and… Read more »
To talk of genocide and gimmickry at once is risky, but Chris McCormick pulls it off with considerable success in his debut novel The Gimmicks. McCormick uses the metaphor of… Read more »
Sarah Stonich’s Laurentian Divide uses the rhythms of life in Hatchet Inlet—a fictional northern Minnesota town situated near a large and contested nature reserve area on the border with Canada—to… Read more »
Minnesota based writer, Louise Erdrich, creates a grippingly smart and thought-provoking narrative in her latest work, Future Home Of The Living God. In this epistolary novel, readers follow protagonist Cedar… Read more »
As our own planet begins to suffer from environmental changes, many are looking at the future we may soon be living. Andrew Deyoung’s novel, The Exo Project, while depicting a… Read more »
In Jane St. Anthony’s third middle-grade novel, Isabelle Day Refuses to Die of a Broken Heart, we join eighth-grader Isabelle Day as she navigates loss and friendship in the compelling… Read more »
One might think of Anthony Bukoski’s Head of the Lakes as a love letter to Superior, Wisconsin. This beautiful and meditative collection of short stories highlights the complexities of the… Read more »
In David Housewright’s fourteenth installment of the McKenzie series, What the Dead Leave Behind, former cop turned millionaire Rushmore McKenzie finds himself returning to the world of private investigation after… Read more »