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Letter From Minnesota: We Are a People Born and Bred of Organizers

Marcie R. Rendon on the Importance of Doing the Right Thing
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Letter From Minnesota: Our Work is to Protect What We Love

Diane Wilson on Traditions of American Violence,
to Nature and Human Alike
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Letter From Minnesota: This is Actually What’s Great About America

David Mura on the Power of Solidarity and Diversity in the Twin Cities
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Letter From Minnesota: “A Prayer Must Be More Than Asking”

Kawai Washburn on Doing the Work Even in the Face of the Abyss

Can Zohran Mamdani Survive at the Intersection of Identity Politics and Democratic Socialism?

By Mychal Denzel Smith

Finding the Publishing World in the Epstein Files

By Maris Kreizman

Turning to Thoreau for Lessons on Living Through Difficult Times

By Kristy Beachy-Quick

Beyond the Headlines: Five Essential Books For Understanding Afghanistan

By Patmeena Sabit

Sex Without Shame: Senior Women Share Their Stories of Finding Sexual Freedom

By Joan Price

Against the “King Voice.” On the Evolution of Vocal Authority, from Orson Welles to Sarah Vowell

By Sarah Montague

5 Book Reviews You Need to Read This Week

By Book Marks

What Seamus Heaney Meant to Me, a Kid From Carrickfergus

By Adrian McKinty

The Independent Press Top 40 Bestsellers: Nonfiction

By Literary Hub

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Anjali Enjeti on Ballots and How Trump Wants to Steal Them

By Fiction Non Fiction

On Russia’s New Official Dictionary and the Language of Authoritarianism

By Katherine Kelaidis

From Gaza to Minneapolis We Are Still Being Told to Disbelieve Our Eyes

By Steven W. Thrasher

Letter From Minnesota: “did they really take a 4 yo too the other night?”

By Sarah Green

What’s the Word for...
Forgetting Words?

By Mira Ptacin

How W.E.B. DuBois and James McCune Smith Helped Combat Medical Racism in America

By Michelle A. Williams

Crime Reads

Crime Reads

February 5, 2026

February's Best New Mysteries, Crime Novels, and Thrillers

By Molly Odintz

27 New and Upcoming Horror Novels To Look Out For In 2026

By Molly Odintz

10 New Books Coming Out This Week

By CrimeReads

The Best Psychological Thrillers of February 2026

By Molly Odintz

Book Marks

Book Marks

5 Reviews You Need to Read This Week

The Best Reviewed Books of the Month

Writing is an Act of Faith, But Publishing is a Practice in Doubt

By Reena Shah

This Week in Literary History: David Foster Wallace’s Infinite Jest Was Published

By Literary Hub

Mars Rainfall, Death Monks, and Frankenstein Summer: February’s Best Sci-Fi and Fantasy Books

By Natalie Zutter

Letter From Mni Sóta Makóče: “No One is Illegal on Stolen Land”

By Heid E. Erdrich

Kim Kelly on the Difference Between a General Strike and a National Shutdown (And Why It Matters)

By Kim Kelly

Letter From Minnesota: On Living in the Hour of Cities Under Siege

By Carolyn Forché

How Bertolt Brecht and Walter Benjamin Pioneered a New Way of Creating

By Katherine Hollander

Kim Kelly: Why the American Labor Movement Matters

By Kim Kelly

Requiem for Weimar: On Ulrich Alexander Boschwitz’s Berlin Shuffle

By Philip Boehm