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 ...

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 ...

Jeffrey Brown talks to Louise Erdrich, author of "The Round House." A woman is attacked, a family is altered forever, the only child, a 13-year-old boy, seeks to solve the mystery surrounding the ...

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 ...

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, ...

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 ...

WAHPETON, N.D. — In many of her novels, Louise Erdrich writes about fictitious families on or near an unnamed and imagined reservation somewhere in eastern North Dakota. In real life, Erdrich’s own ...

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 ...

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 ...

In 1988, 13-year-old Joe Coutts is thrust into adulthood after his mother, Geraldine Coutts, is sexually assaulted. His story is at the center of Louise Erdrich's latest novel, The Round House.