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Talking Volumes 2019 season guide

Talking Volumes 2019 season guide

The 20th season of Talking Volumes will feature interviews with Alice Hoffman, Saeed Jones, Tim O’Brien, Karen Armstrong, Lindy West and Tracy K. Smith.
by MPR News Staff

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'Gods of Jade and Shadow' spins a dark, dazzling fairy tale

'Gods of Jade and Shadow' spins a dark, dazzling fairy tale

Silvia Moreno-Garcia's novel is set in an alternate Jazz Age Mexico, where gods and monsters from Mayan mythology walk the Earth and war with each other for dominion over Xibalba, the land of death.
by Arkady Martine

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In 'Beijing Payback,' the immigrant experience, but make it a crime thriller

In 'Beijing Payback,' the immigrant experience, but make it a crime thriller

Daniel Nieh used to be a model and a translator. He says both of those professions went into his debut novel, a page-turner about a college basketball player unraveling his Chinese father's murder.
by Ari Shapiro

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New Beyoncé album accompanies the Lion King movie remake

New Beyoncé album accompanies the Lion King movie remake

While the movie has been panned, critics have been much kinder to the music, which Beyoncé described in a Good Morning America interview as "a love letter to Africa."
by Cathy Wurzer

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Riverboat performance lets audience navigate a murder mystery

Riverboat performance lets audience navigate a murder mystery

A story set just before the Civil War plays out on the Jonathan Padelford, where actors and audience members plumb the depths of criminal behavior.
by Sophia Sura

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New opera 'Blue' takes on the tragedy of police brutality

New opera 'Blue' takes on the tragedy of police brutality

The new opera by Tazewell Thompson and Jeanine Tesori tells the story of a couple in Harlem who are forced to confront their teenage son's sudden death by police violence.
by Jeff Lunden

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In 'My Ideal Boyfriend Is a Croissant', the heroine is no flake

In 'My Ideal Boyfriend Is a Croissant', the heroine is no flake

Laura Dockrill's young adult novel stars a refreshingly direct, unapologetic — and occasionally crass — plus-sized girl who uses her doctor-imposed food diary to record her life and feelings.
by Alethea Kontis

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'At Dusk' exposes South Korea through a variety of lenses

'At Dusk' exposes South Korea through a variety of lenses

Hwang Sok-yong's novel is a perfect slice of Koreana; a touching, somewhat depressive narrative full of nostalgia exposing the underbelly of a nation via the people inhabiting society's bottom rung.
by Gabino Iglesias

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Trump's bail offer for jailed rapper rings hollow in Sweden

Trump's bail offer for jailed rapper rings hollow in Sweden

President Trump said he spoke with Sweden's prime minister Saturday about jailed rapper A$AP Rocky and "offered to personally vouch for his bail," a hollow offer in a criminal justice system that doesn't include bail.
by Associated Press

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