Books

In this time of isolation, I have been reminded how lucky we are to have books that introduce us to

Do you know how long ago Minnesota efforts to improve multicultural education began?

I spent countless hours wandering the music section of the library, searching for clues, a little inspiration, and a quiet distraction from my impending deadlines.

As an ambitious fourth grader, I set out to write the next Great American Novel. There was one problem: in

Women have long been some of the most eloquent and impactful writers when it comes to nature and ecology. They

based on a book by Erika Lee A large segment of the U.S. population worried that immigrants were too numerous

The following is excerpted from Lorna Landvik’s 2019 novel “Chronicles of a Radical Hag (With Recipes).” Throughout the book, Landvik

On a January day in 2001, my mother and I sat together in the Gale Family Library at the Minnesota

“If [children] see only reflections of themselves, they will grow up with an exaggerated sense of their own importance and value in the world. A dangerous ethnocentrism.”

As a child, I read everything from Superman comics to “Little Women,” absorbing without question whatever these writers had to