Bride Madeline Robinson was sitting in a chair, putting on her shoes, when her family's cat curled up on the train of her ...

If the weather and news are making you feel depressed, you need a healthy dose of updoc. “What’s updoc?” you ask? Well, it’s the next film in The News-Gazette Film ...

The shortest month is hardly light on new releases, with new titles from Matt Dinniman, Nnedi Okorafor, Edward Ashton, ...

This morning’s Twin Cities Live Book Club was a page-turner of an event! Elizabeth and Kelli chatted with about 100 book lovers about *The Mad Wife* by Meagan Church. They unraveled themes of ...

Great comic novels are the white truffles of literature. You can root around in the underbrush for a long time without ever finding one. That rarity would seem to make little sense in such a hilarious ...

A semi-estranged midlife couple and their three precocious daughters form the center of Madeline Cash’s satirical novel, “Lost Lambs.” By John Maher John Maher is an editor at the Book Review. When ...

The family at the center of Madeline Cash’s first novel, Lost Lambs, is falling apart. Bud and Catherine Flynn have begun a “nonconsensual nonmonogamous spell.” They are too busy scorching each ...

Two recent books, different in temperament and circumstance, invite reflection on what draws our attention, and how that attention is best applied. I try to stay insulated from publishing-industry ...

One thing to be said for the splintered families of three new novels is that being dysfunctional is better than being nonfunctional—at least an effort is being made. In Madeline Cash’s delightfully ...

In the beginning were the gnats. “Lost Lambs,” Madeline Cash’s riotously assured debut novel, opens inside Our Lady of Suffering as the pests swarm through services, multiplying faster than Father ...

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... Editor’s note: The opinions of the smart, well-read women in my Denver book club mean a lot, and often determine what the rest of us choose to pile onto our ...