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Louise Erdrich is one of the most important contemporary Native American writers. She writes poetry and some of the most sophisticated fiction and nonfiction being produced in the United States; her novels, particularly, deserve to be read, discussed, an...

The writings of Louise Erdrich not only reflect her multilayered, complex background but also confound a variety of literary genre and cultural categories. Although she is known primarily as a successful contemporary Native American writer, Erdrich's fin...

The writings of Louise Erdrich not only reflect her multilayered, complex background but also confound a variety of literary genre and cultural categories. Although she is known primarily as a successful contemporary Native American writer, Erdrich's fin...

THE BEET QUEEN. By Louise Erdrich. Henry Holt and Company. 338 pp. $16.95. The Beet Queen is a Dickensian story, an angry comedy about abandonment and survival, pluck and luck (ambition and coincidence), common sense and pretension, and wise children and...

A look at what's new, bountiful or mysterious in the produce aisles. The beets of my childhood were deep red in color and otherwise, forgettable. For a regularly scheduled side dish, mother boiled the beets for an hour or so. They were skinned...