This Week in Literary History: Voltaire Returns to Paris from Exile and 300 People Come to Visit

This Week in Literary History: Voltaire Returns to Paris from Exile and 300 People Come to Visit

A Legend Comes Home

By Literary Hub | February 9, 2026

Anthropic didn’t want us to know that they were destroying millions of books to feed their software.

Anthropic didn’t want us to know that they were destroying millions of books to feed their software.

By James Folta | February 6, 2026

This week’s news in Venn diagrams.

This week’s news in Venn diagrams.

By James Folta | February 6, 2026

Here’s what’s making us happy <em>this</em> week.

Here’s what’s making us happy this week.

By Brittany Allen | February 6, 2026

Letter From Minnesota: There is No Time for Mom Guilt

Letter From Minnesota: There is No Time for Mom Guilt

Kaia Preus: “We cannot become engulfed in what we could or should have done.”

By Kaia Preus | February 6, 2026

Letter From Minnesota: Our Community Grows Stronger by the Week

Letter From Minnesota: Our Community Grows Stronger by the Week

Laurie Hertzel on Finding Solidarity Amidst the Tear Gas

By Laurie Hertzel | February 6, 2026

Best Reviewed
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  • In the Days of My Youth I Was Told What It Means to Be a Man: A Memoir
  • Nonesuch
  • Whidbey
  • A Scandal in Königsberg
  • The Quantity Theory of Morality
  • Partially Devoured: How Night of the Living Dead Saved My Life and Changed the World

Maggie O’Farrell on Grief, Her History with Shakespeare, and Adapting Her Novel to the Screen

By Sasha Han | February 6, 2026

The Pain of (Not) Paying: Debt as a Monetary and a Health Burden

By Khameer Kidia | February 6, 2026

Photographic Reflections on Gendered Aging, Idealized Beauty, and Maternal Duty

By Ahndraya Parlato | February 6, 2026

Fighting Abroad and At Home: Remembering the Experiences of Black Vietnam Veterans

Fighting Abroad and At Home: Remembering the Experiences of Black Vietnam Veterans

Wil Haygood on the Long History of Black Heroism and Service—and the Current Efforts to Erase It

By Wil Haygood | February 6, 2026

The Radical Power of a Bookstore: On Lawrence Ferlinghetti and City Lights

The Radical Power of a Bookstore: On Lawrence Ferlinghetti and City Lights

Gioia Woods Reflects on the Life of a Literary Icon

By Gioia Woods | February 6, 2026

Nancy Reddy on Researching Beyond the Archives

Nancy Reddy on Researching Beyond the Archives

Or: Reading Sideways

By Nancy Reddy | February 6, 2026

Two stories about paranoia for our conspiratorial moment.

Two stories about paranoia for our conspiratorial moment.

By James Folta | February 5, 2026

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

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

Mychal Denzel Smith on the New Mayor’s Uncertain Relationship With New York’s Black Voters

By Mychal Denzel Smith | February 5, 2026

Finding the Publishing World in the Epstein Files

Finding the Publishing World in the Epstein Files

Maris Kreizman on the Viler-Than-Fiction
Behavior of Powerful Men

By Maris Kreizman | February 5, 2026

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

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

Marcie R. Rendon on the Importance of Doing the Right Thing

By Marcie R. Rendon | February 5, 2026

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