Magers & Quinn is proud to welcome back The Mill City Reading Series, a monthly showcase of works-in-progress by MFA in Creative Writing students at the University of Minnesota. The showcase is free and open to the public. Speakers and genres vary every month. Come support these emerging writers on Sunday, September 29. Other series […]

The natural world has been a major source of inspiration for Bart Sutter’s poetry for more than half a century, during which he has explored the backroads, trails, rivers, lakes, and bogs of the North, returning with vivid reports of otters eating golden walleyes, a big bull moose groaning for love, and the memorable music […]

The politics of grief, in an era marked by loss, shows us how we can find our humanity once more. From one of our most vital and far-seeing social critics. Our era is one of significant and substantial loss, yet we barely have time to acknowledge it. The losses range from the personal grief of […]

In 1880s Minnesota a remarkable lawsuit posed questions about cultural practices in an immigrant community and the rights of its members as Americans—inspiring a wide-reaching debate about faith and family. Copublished with the Norwegian-American Historical Association on the occasion of St. Olaf College’s sesquicentennial, Muus vs. Muus is the American edition of a volume originally […]