Why Bob Dylan’s COVID-Era Album Was the Real Nobel Lecture

Why Bob Dylan’s COVID-Era Album Was the Real Nobel Lecture

Robert Polito Explores the Singer-Songwriter’s Lyrical Reckoning With American History and Contemporary Reality

By Robert Polito | January 29, 2026

How Do Good Ideas Happen?

How Do Good Ideas Happen?

George Newman on How Motivation and Imitation Are Key to Creative Endeavors

By George Newman | January 29, 2026

The Independent Press Top 40 Bestsellers: Nonfiction

The Independent Press Top 40 Bestsellers: Nonfiction

For the week ending January 25, 2026

By Literary Hub | January 29, 2026

5 Book Reviews You Need to Read This Week

5 Book Reviews You Need to Read This Week

“You see the problem: What’s a satirist to do in times like these?”

By Book Marks | January 29, 2026

January’s Best Reviewed Fiction

January’s Best Reviewed Fiction

Julian Barnes, Ben Markovits, Daniyal Mueenuddin, and More

By Book Marks | January 29, 2026

January’s Best Reviewed Nonfiction

January’s Best Reviewed Nonfiction

Featuring Val McDermid, the Black Dahlia, Jung Chang, and More

By Book Marks | January 29, 2026

Best Reviewed
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  • Country People
  • You Won't Get Free of It: Stories of Mothers and Daughters
  • Exit Stalin: The Soviet Union as a Civilization, 1953-1991
  • The Great Wherever
  • A Sudden Flicker of Light: A Revisionist History of Movies
  • The Simp: A Novel Without a Hero

Here to Make Friends (and Maybe Write a Novel)

By Stephen Fishbach | January 29, 2026

Thomas Jefferson Couldn’t Resist the Allure of Fame

By Andrew Burstein | January 29, 2026

No Matter How Much Great Literature We Feed Into AI, It Cannot Feel

By Naomi S. Baron | January 29, 2026

Leslie Cohen on How to Survive When You’re Between Writing Projects

Leslie Cohen on How to Survive When You’re Between Writing Projects

“That’s the hardest part of any artistic pursuit: there is no path.”

By Leslie Cohen | January 29, 2026

The Independent Press Top 40 Bestsellers: Fiction

The Independent Press Top 40 Bestsellers: Fiction

For the week ending January 25, 2026

By Literary Hub | January 29, 2026

Letter From Minnesota: Vigil in a Besieged City

Letter From Minnesota: Vigil in a Besieged City

For Poet Jim Moore, Echoes of 1970 and Beyond

By Jim Moore | January 29, 2026

Letter From Minnesota: This Occupation is Strange But Familiar

Letter From Minnesota: This Occupation is Strange But Familiar

chaun webster on ICE in Minneapolis and the Limits of Language

By chaun webster | January 29, 2026

Letter From Minnesota: “Normalcy is Impossible Here. Normalcy is Violence.”

Letter From Minnesota: “Normalcy is Impossible Here. Normalcy is Violence.”

Michael Kleber-Diggs on the COVID-Era Echoes of ICE’s Occupation

By Michael Kleber-Diggs | January 29, 2026

“Stick Together and We’ll Win.” How to Get Inspired For the Minneapolis General Strike

“Stick Together and We’ll Win.” How to Get Inspired For the Minneapolis General Strike

Selected Readings From W.E.B. DuBois to Chris Hedges

By James Folta | January 29, 2026

On the Past and Present of Authoritarianism, War, and Literature in Europe

On the Past and Present of Authoritarianism, War, and Literature in Europe

A Conversation with Artem Chapeye, Peter Osnos, and Antonia Lloyd-Jones

By Literary Hub | January 29, 2026

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