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The Origin of Prince’s Iconic Sound

The Origin of Prince’s Iconic Sound

Rashad Shabazz on the Black Music Scene in Mid-Twentieth Century Minneapolis

By Rashad Shabazz | February 17, 2026

This Week in Literary History: Malcolm X was Assassinated in New York City

This Week in Literary History: Malcolm X was Assassinated in New York City

“Whatever hand pulled the trigger did not buy the bullet.”

By Literary Hub | February 16, 2026

This week’s news in Venn diagrams.

This week’s news in Venn diagrams.

By James Folta | February 13, 2026

The Trump administration is illegally gutting NASA’s largest research library.

The Trump administration is illegally gutting NASA’s largest research library.

Meet the team fighting to save our scientific knowledge.

By Brittany Allen | February 13, 2026

Arundhati Roy quits this year’s Berlinale over “jaw-dropping” jury remarks against political art and Gaza.

Arundhati Roy quits this year’s Berlinale over “jaw-dropping” jury remarks against political art and Gaza.

By James Folta | February 13, 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 13, 2026

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Letter From Minnesota: “I Have My Passport With Me.”

By Michael Torres | February 13, 2026

An Archive of Associations: When My Father Bought Foucault’s Old Car

By Anna Nygren | February 13, 2026

Letter From Minnesota: Thirteen Ways of Looking at the Frontier, From an Immigrant in Minneapolis

By Sun Yung Shin | February 13, 2026

Translating Holocaust Literature in Times of Genocide

Translating Holocaust Literature in Times of Genocide

Sasha Senderovich and Harriet Murav on “new ways of seeing the Nazi genocide at a moment when such seeing is urgently needed.”

By Sasha Senderovich and Harriet Murav | February 13, 2026

What Playing With Sun Ra in College Taught Me About Myself

What Playing With Sun Ra in College Taught Me About Myself

Michael Lowenthal on Jazz, Musicianship, and Discovering the Limits of Improvisation

By Michael Lowenthal | February 13, 2026

Have You Ever Tried Going on a Blind Date With a Book?

Have You Ever Tried Going on a Blind Date With a Book?

Jess deCourcy Hinds Offers 13 Ways of Looking at the Book World’s Latest Phenomenon

By Jess deCourcy Hinds | February 13, 2026

What Science Reveals About the Many Facets of Desire

What Science Reveals About the Many Facets of Desire

Tom Bellamy on the Neurochemical Reactions That Drive Love, Obsession and Longing

By Tom Bellamy | February 13, 2026

When Presidents Slowly Fall: What Fiction Gets Right About the 25th Amendment

When Presidents Slowly Fall: What Fiction Gets Right About the 25th Amendment

How to Depose a Mad King (According to the Constitution)

By Aron Solomon | February 12, 2026

Letter From Minnesota: Count Them Among the Loved

Letter From Minnesota: Count Them Among the Loved

Jennifer Bowen on the Distortions of Time Under an Occupation

By Jennifer Eli Bowen | February 12, 2026

Letter From Minnesota: SOS From an Occupied City

Letter From Minnesota: SOS From an Occupied City

Angela Ajayi on the Feeling of Authoritarian Creep

By Angela Ajayi | February 12, 2026

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