Jane Austen’s Bookshelf’ presents women whose writing Austen admired — and how modern author Rebecca Romney found them.

Riley Sager, Emma Donoghue and Alex Schulman all set their latest novels on trains, just as Agatha Christie and others did ...

The crime-fighters-but-make-them-older trend continues with Deanna Raybourn’s “Kills Well With Others.” The sequel to “Killers of a Certain Age” could repurpose that title because the quartet of ...

Minnesota’s state-wide book club is back in action. The title for this year’s One Book One Minnesota program has been announced: “Where We Come From,” by four local authors. John Coy, Shannon Gibney, ...

A creepy song on a car radio led directly to Dennis E. Staples' second novel, “Passing Through a Prairie Country.” He was driving from MSP airport to his then-home in Bemidji, Minn. “By the time I hit ...

The book “Slow Train Coming,” which author Todd Almond will discuss at Magers & Quinn March 26, is not a whodunit. But there is a little mystery about his connection to the person who’ll be discussing ...

When Neil Gaiman, Alice Munro, J.K. Rowling and others hit the news for reasons other than their books, booksellers in the Twin Cities have some decisions to make.

Karen Russell’s “The Antidote,” her first novel since Pulitzer Prize finalist “Swamplandia,” does not make it easy on ...

Curtis Sittenfeld’s last novel was the bestselling “Romantic Comedy.” That partly ironic title could apply to the “Eligible” ...