Raised in a conservative Mennonite community, Miriam Toews discovered her voice through writing — transforming silence, ...

Playful, propulsive, and strange, Miriam Toews’ memoir A Truce That Is Not Peace reveals a masterful writer exploring the ...

The elders dismissed their complaints or blamed them on “wild female imagination” — until it was discovered that men from the community had been creeping through windows at night, sedating whole ...

I’ve attended seven funerals of friends who died by suicide. Most were for friends I knew through church, and all of them gutted me. So when asked if I would review Miriam Toews’s new memoir, I ...

The latter, Patti Wiens, kicks things off tonight at 7 p.m. as she launches her new book That’ll Never Work Here, the second book in Great Plains Press’ The City Project, edited by city ...

Upon reaching a certain level of renown, an author can expect to be asked why they write. Blame George Orwell, who in 1946 famously published “Why I Write,” an essay contending with the motives of ...