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On What It Really Means to Live the Writing Life: The Good AND the Bad

Nick Ripatrazone Tracks Down His First Literary Correspondent, Jack Garrett
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Letter From Minnesota: When Men With Guns Enter the Neighborhood

Sahra Noor on Finding Unwanted Echoes of Mogadishu
in Present-Day Minneapolis
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Letter from Minnesota: The Season of Los Helados

Gabriela Spears-Rico on the All-Too-Familiar Brutality of ICE
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Translating Holocaust Literature in Times of Genocide

Sasha Senderovich and Harriet Murav on “new ways of seeing the Nazi genocide at a moment when such seeing is urgently needed.”

Letter From Minnesota: Waiting For the Barbarians to Get the F*ck Out

By Zeke Caligiuri

What Growing Up On Mars Would Do to the Human Body

By Scott Solomon

Letter From Minnesota: One Saturday in Late January in 40 Simple Steps

By Peter Pearson

Namwali Serpell on Toni Morrison and the Power of Ambiguity

By Namwali Serpell

“A Mother Sends Her Son Off on the Eve of the Bois Caïman Ceremony," a Poem by Sony Ton-Aime

By Sony Ton-Aime

What Should You Read Next? Here Are the Best Reviewed Books of the Week

By Book Marks

Education as a Lifeline:
Hope and Hardship in Gaza

By Hassan Herzallah

How Finding My Narrator Brought My Entire Book Together

By Burnside Soleil

Letter from Minnesota: When Home is Away from Home

By Su Hwang

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What We Lose When Our Independent Bookstores Close

By Michael Welch

The So-Called Tragedy of the English Commons Was Anything But

By Kate Brown

What Happens When Your Books (Don’t) Get Banned?

By Lydia Millet

What Do You Do When the Biggest Platforms For Readers Are Kind of Evil?

By Maris Kreizman

On the Unlikely Origin of The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time

By Mark Haddon

Letter From Minnesota:
Elegy For Renee Nicole Good

By Ahmed Ismail Yusuf

Crime Reads

Crime Reads

February 19, 2026

The Best International Crime Fiction of February 2026

By Molly Odintz

The Best Debut Novels of the Month: February 2026

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Cannibal, the Listicle

By Molly Odintz

10 New Books Coming Out This Week

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5 Reviews You Need to Read This Week

The Cosmic Library Hears Imaginary Music

By The Cosmic Library

Eight Books About the Ups and Downs of Friendship

By Lillian Li

Sarah Aziza on Memoir as a Work of Art

By Memoir Nation

Whose Journey? On the Travel Writing of Displacement

By Kimberley Kinder

This Week in Literary History: Malcolm X was Assassinated in New York City

By Literary Hub

Letter From Minnesota: “I Have My Passport With Me.”

By Michael Torres

The Origins of One of the Most Beloved Video Games of All Time

By Keza MacDonald

Why Does Contemporary Fascism Fetishize the Classics?

By Ed Simon

In Praise of One of America’s All-Time Great Book Sections (RIP)

By Gerald Howard