There’s a moment in The Night Watchman when all the slow, patient work that Louise Erdrich does to introduce her characters and familiarize us with their lives suddenly crashes full speed into a ...

Without wishing to re-autopsy the Bad Art Friend’s much-rummaged-in corpse, it’s fair to say literary conversation lately has focused on the negative side of borrowing from one’s real-life milieu for ...

I guess you could call Louise Erdrich's new novel "The Sentence" a ghost story, though that implies a certain scary spookiness that the book does not possess. But there are ghosts aplenty, and one in ...

Louise Erdrich's "creaky old" Minneapolis house might well have its own resident ghost, but she's not talking about it. "It does," she said in a recent interview. "And that's all I'm going to say. I ...

Louise Erdrich, author of this year’s One Book One Northwestern selection “The Night Watchman,” discussed her novel’s inspirations at the 20th One Book One Northwestern keynote on Oct. 15. Moderated ...

National Book Award-winning novelist Louise Erdrich returns with a story inspired by the life of her grandfather, a leader of the Turtle Mountain Chippewa tribe in the 1950s. In "The Night Watchman" ...

Acclaimed Native American novelist, small bookstore owner and “The Night Watchman” author Louise Erdrich was honored on Wednesday with the Aspen Words Literary Prize. The annual award, which Erdrich ...

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THE NIGHT WATCHMAN by Louise Erdrich (Harper, 448 pp., $28.99). Louise Erdrich’s full-bodied new novel depicts the real-life battle of her grandfather (fictionalized and renamed Thomas Wazhushk) ...

Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist Louise Erdrich (“The Night Watchman,” 2021) returns with a story close to her heart, “The Mighty Red.” Set in the author’s native North Dakota, the title refers to the ...

2020 was a time of upheaval in Minneapolis — from the pandemic, to the police killing of George Floyd. A new novel, ‘The Sentence,’ by Pulitzer Prize-winning author and Minneapolis resident Louise ...

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 ...