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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
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Letter From Minnesota:
“Mad Means Something”

Charles Baxter on the Rage of the Poet, and Its Power

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

The Annotated Nightstand: What Bianca Stone is Reading Now, and Next

By Diana Arterian

Meet the Ancient Ancestor of Macaroni and Cheese—and Cook It Yourself

By Karima Moyer-Nocchi

Office Culture Follows Us Everywhere: Six Books About Work

By Daniel Poppick

“Sylvia,” “Go, Gentle,” and “When It is Time,” Poems by Robert Fanning

By Robert Fanning

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Geoff Dyer on Xiaolu Guo's A CONCISE CHINESE-ENGLISH DICTIONARY FOR LOVERS

By Windham-Campbell Prizes Podcast

Lily Meyer on Philip Roth, Anti-Zionism, and Her Relationship to American Judaism

By Lily Meyer

Letter From Minnesota:
We’ve Been Here Before

By Carolyn Holbrook

Toni Morrison on What Flannery O’Connor’s Short Fiction Reveals About Race in America

By Toni Morrison

11 Books That Confront and Interrogate the Violence of a Class Society

By Ann Larson and Alissa Quart

Borrowing From the Bard: A Shakespeare-Inspired Reading List

By Rebecca Fallon

Crime Reads

Crime Reads

February 3, 2026

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

10 Speculative Mysteries and Thrillers to Check Out in 2026

By Molly Odintz

Book Marks

Book Marks

The Best Reviewed Books of the Month

5 Reviews You Need to Read This Week

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