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Voting rights expert Carol Anderson in conversation with Kerri Miller in Red Wing (opens the original)
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Carol Anderson has been sounding the alarm for years. As a historian at Emory University, she is intimately acquainted with America’s legacy when it comes to voting access. Her book, “ One Person, No Vote: How Voter Suppression is Destroying our Democracy ,” was longlisted for the National Book Award in 2018. She brought her deep knowledge of history and concern about what’s happening to voting access now to Red Wing on Sept. 23. During a conversation at the Sheldon Theatre with MPR News host Ke
Author Sarah Longwell says political character counts in ‘How to Eat an Elephant’ (opens the original)
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Have Americans given up a sense of virtue in their political leaders? What does character mean when so-called “authenticity” is prized over moral goodness? As publisher of The Bulwark and host of The Focus Group podcast, Sarah Longwell has thought long and hard about these questions. When she was a young conservative growing up in the ‘90s, she applauded Republicans who held then-President Bill Clinton to task for his moral failings. “I was very attracted to the idea that character counted,” she
Talking Volumes: Marlon James on his deeply personal novel ‘The Disappearers’ (opens the original)
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Marlon James new novel, “ The Disappearers ,” was published just 18 days ago, and already, this deeply personal novel about gay men in Jamaica has been declared “ the novel of the decade, if not the century ” by the New York Times. It has also been longlisted for the 2026 Booker Prize National Book Award. James, a part-time Macalester College professor and full-time literary phenomenon, kicked off the 2026 season of Talking Volumes last week. He joined Kerri Miller on the stage of the O’Shaughne
Author Edwidge Danticat examines what it means to live after trauma in 'Dèy' (opens the original)
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In December of 2017, Haitian-American author Edwidge Danticat was a mall in south Florida when a loud gunshot broke through the holiday shopping chatter. Believing that a mass shooting was underway, Danticat ran with her fellow shoppers in utter terror. Eventually, she learned the shooting was a hoax. But the trauma that experience provoked was very real. She works some of that trauma out in her new novel, " Dèy ." Taken from the Creole word for “mourning,” the story follows a young mother, Magn
A new coming-of-age novel by Chang-rae Lee examines how we become who we are (opens the original)
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If you remember the first time you left your family to go to summer camp, you probably remember how that time marked you. You leave as a child, but after spending a week or two away from home and all that’s familiar, you return changed. Chang-rae Lee’s new novel, “ A Tender Age ,” follows a young boy, almost 11, as he begins the shift toward adolescence. A few tumultuous events make Jeon-Gi very aware of his new and growing personhood — and then he leaves for summer camp, where he experiments wi
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