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Art Hounds: Art Hounds are members of the Minnesota arts community who look beyond their own work to highlight what's exciting in local art. You can explore arts events here, or become an Art Hound today.

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Three voices on what they’re reading in 2020

Three voices on what they’re reading in 2020

MPR News with Kerri Miller continues its look at what to read in this tumultuous and transformational year, with a focus on fiction, memoirs and poetry.
by Kerri Miller and MPR News Staff

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Whatever you're expecting, 'Harrow the Ninth' is not that kind of book

Whatever you're expecting, 'Harrow the Ninth' is not that kind of book

Whatever you expected from Tamsyn Muir's followup to her lesbian-necromancers-in-space epic “Gideon the Ninth,” this is not that book — it's something wilder, darker and much, much weirder.
by Jason Sheehan

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Art Hounds: Painting and theater to make you reconsider your environment

Art Hounds: Painting and theater to make you reconsider your environment

The paintings of Adam Swanson, on view at the Great Lakes Aquarium, features a federally listed threatened and endangered animal of Minnesota. The Art Hounds also recommend an “angsty and hilarious” improv and teen diary reading at the Minnesota Fringe Virtual Festival, as well as an actor-aided exploration of your habitat, also known as your home.
by Emily Bright

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Legal analyst Jeffrey Toobin explains the 'tragedy' of the Mueller investigation

Legal analyst Jeffrey Toobin explains the 'tragedy' of the Mueller investigation

Toobin's new book, “True Crimes and Misdemeanors,” examines how Trump and his team outmaneuvered special counsel Robert Mueller. Mueller, he says, gave Trump "a free pass" on obstruction of justice.
by Terry Gross

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A year after Toni Morrison's death, her visions of love stay with us

A year after Toni Morrison's death, her visions of love stay with us

Love is central to the work of Toni Morrison — she brought love to her examinations of Black life, and love itself was her enduring subject. But love isn't always a good or joyous thing in her work.
by marc rivers

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Love triumphs over death in 'The Death Of Vivek Oji'

Love triumphs over death in 'The Death Of Vivek Oji'

Akwaeke Emezi's new novel begins with a death; it adopts the form — but not the spirit — of traditional crime fiction, glorying in some of the genre's conventions while slyly subverting them.
by Lily Meyer

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St. Paul teen named one of 5 National Student Poets

St. Paul teen named one of 5 National Student Poets

Madelyn Dietz and the other winners will each receive a $5,000 cash award. The student poet program was launched in 2011, with winners contributing to community programs and poetry events and performing their work everywhere from Lincoln Center to the White House.
by The Associated Press

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It's more than racism: Isabel Wilkerson explains America's 'caste' system

It's more than racism: Isabel Wilkerson explains America's 'caste' system

In “Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents,” the Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist examines the laws and practices that created a bipolar caste system in the U.S. — and how the Nazis borrowed from it.
by Terry Gross

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