Claude Peck

Fiction: A family prepares to leave India against a cascade of obstacles.

Fiction: An experiment in polyamory proves poly-problematic.

Fiction: A failing farm in Malaysia pulls a city boy and his family in new directions.

In novel "The Human Scale," "The Looming Tower" Pulitzer Prize winner Lawrence Wright tells the story of cops with different takes on the Middle East.

Adrian McKinty's Irish sleuth Sean Duffy returns in "Hang On St. Christopher," his wit and crime-solving abilities very much intact in a case that reaches to the top of organized crime.

"Brighter Than the Sun" writer Daniel Aleman shifts from YA to adult novels with "I Might Be in Trouble," in which a writer, faced with a corpse in his bed, decides to use it in his work.

At age 69, Claude Peck recently took his first rip to the Boundary Waters. It will also be his last.

Consultants HR&A to talk about design work done elsewhere and what needs to happen in Minneapolis.

An outstanding Chopin Society recital by Russian pianist Elisso Virzaladze.

Kevin Barry, Irish author of