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The Independent Press Top 40 Bestsellers: Fiction

The Independent Press Top 40 Bestsellers: Fiction

For the week ending February 1, 2026

By Literary Hub | February 5, 2026

Anjali Enjeti on Ballots and How Trump Wants to Steal Them

Anjali Enjeti on Ballots and How Trump Wants to Steal Them

In Conversation with Whitney Terrell and Jennifer Maritza McCauley on Fiction/Non/Fiction

By Fiction Non Fiction | February 5, 2026

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

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

Katherine Kelaidis Considers the Dictionary as a Prescriptive Ideological Document

By Katherine Kelaidis | February 4, 2026

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

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

Steven W. Thrasher on the Western Establishment’s
Deliberate Break From Reality

By Steven W. Thrasher | February 4, 2026

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

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

Sarah Green on Preserving the Idea of Kinship in the Face of Brutality

By Sarah Green | February 4, 2026

What’s the Word for... <br>Forgetting Words?

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

Mira Ptacin on Grappling with Perimenopausal Aphasia

By Mira Ptacin | February 4, 2026

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

By Diana Arterian | February 4, 2026

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

By Michelle A. Williams | February 4, 2026

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

By Karima Moyer-Nocchi | February 4, 2026

Office Culture Follows Us Everywhere: Six Books About Work

Office Culture Follows Us Everywhere: Six Books About Work

Daniel Poppick Recommends Kathryn Scanlan, Vivian Gornick, Franz Kafka, and More

By Daniel Poppick | February 4, 2026

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

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

From the Collection All We Are Given We Cannot Hold

By Robert Fanning | February 4, 2026

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

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

Katherine Hollander on Intellectual, Political and Artistic Collaboration Among the Exiled Mitarbeiter

By Katherine Hollander | February 4, 2026

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

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

In Conversation with Michael Kelleher for the Windham-Campbell Prizes Podcast

By Windham-Campbell Prizes Podcast | February 4, 2026

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

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

“I take both my Jewishness and my Americanness as honors and responsibilities.”

By Lily Meyer | February 3, 2026

Letter From Minnesota: <br>We’ve Been Here Before

Letter From Minnesota:
We’ve Been Here Before

Carolyn Holbrook Finds Wisdom For the Moment
in the Words of Octavia Butler

By Carolyn Holbrook | February 3, 2026

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

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

Considering the Role of Blackness and Black Bodies in the American Literary Canon

By Toni Morrison | February 3, 2026

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