Louise Erdrich's new novel "The Mighty Red" is out now. (Book cover courtesy Harper; author photo courtesy Jenn Ackerman) It’s a singular pleasure to read a novel that begins with the everyday ...

After reading more than a dozen powerful novels by Louise Erdrich, I venture into each of her new books braced for heartbreak. And yet I still find myself falling through comic trapdoors hidden under ...

Louise Erdrich’s newest book is “The Great Gatsby” of our time. Throughout the work, Erdrich captures a small sample of the multitude of American experiences — and what a harrowing, agonizing, ...

Populated by a handful of middle-aged couples, their conflicted offspring, and an assortment of Dickensian teachers and town officials, The Mighty Red by Louise Erdrich, A&S '79 (MA), is an ode to ...

Carlin is a contributor for TIME. Pulitzer Prize winner Louise Erdrich’s latest novel, The Mighty Red, a captivating multigenerational tale set amid the 2008 financial crisis, begins with a frenzied ...

Louise Erdrich’s 19th work of fiction — “The Mighty Red,” named for the river that shapes the North Dakota valley where the book is set — opens with a five-page scene titled “The Night Driver, 2008.” ...

Louise Erdrich’s latest novel is everything we expect from her: a multi-faceted narrative voice, themes of land and family and a diverse cast of endearingly flawed characters. "The Mighty Red" takes ...

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 ...

Louise Erdrich’s novel “The Mighty Red” takes place in North Dakota’s Red River Valley, which is also the setting of her first book, “Love Medicine,” from 1984. In the 40 years since that debut, Ms.

Louise Erdrich’s characters learn to make peace with paradox. The people who make you feel safest are the ones most likely to cause you harm — deal with it. The land you love (in this case, the Red ...

A recent list of the 100 Best Books of the 21st Century that appeared in The New York Times shockingly included not one novel by Louise Erdrich. Speculation was that her many remarkable novels, from ...