Laura Billings Coleman
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Book review for Star Tribune It’s 1914 in Helen Simonson’s new novel, “The Summer Before the War,” and while the world is holding its...

Originally published in Mpls/St. Paul magazine, October 2008 Though I’ve been a meat-eater most of my life, I’ve always been squeamish...

This Is the Story of a Happy Marriage by Ann Patchett (Harper Collins, 320 pages, $28.99, 320 pages) Book review, originally published in...

What happens when a young chick-lit reader falls in love with the ultimate boy book? My Brother Sam Is Dead by James Lincoln Collier and...