Award-winning novelist Louise Erdrich speaks at Haskell Indian Nations University on Saturday, October 12, 2024, to launch her new novel, “The Mighty Red.” Pulitzer Prize winning-author Louise Erdrich ...

The women participating in this fall’s Talking Volumes series have racked up dozens of bestsellers, many awards and one genius grant. The 25th season of Talking Volumes is presented by the Star ...

METAVERSE When you’re reading a novel, you’ll find its author’s fingerprints on every page. But how often do you encounter the writer as a character in his or her own story? Rarely — probably because ...

Louise Erdrich's 15th novel, "LaRose," entwines such weighty themes as war, family, adoption, death, grief, the Indian Child Welfare Act, reservation boarding schools, Indian culture and myth, and ...

I asked Louise Erdrich to introduce the main character of her new novel, The Night Watchman. His name is Thomas Wazhashk. She reads: Thomas was named for the muskrat, wazhashk, the lowly, hardworking, ...

In February, I was lucky enough to have a conversation with Louise Erdrich — one of my very favorite writers — about her newest novel, The Night Watchman, a beautifully rendered historic fiction based ...

The author of the Seeds of America trilogy recommends books that run the gamut from Native American history to the civil rights movement. By Laurie Halse Anderson Leonard Peltier, the American Indian ...

Erdrich's new novel, 'The Night Watchman,' was inspired by her grandfather, a chairman of the Turtle Mountain Band of Chippewa who fought a Congressional initiative to move indigenous peoples off ...

When John Freeman stepped down as the editor of Granta in 2013—in a much-publicized protest against the budget cuts at the celebrated British journal—the literary world waited to see what he’d do next ...