Letter from Minnesota: The Season of Los Helados

Letter from Minnesota: The Season of Los Helados

Gabriela Spears-Rico on the All-Too-Familiar Brutality of ICE

By Gabriela Spears-Rico | February 17, 2026

Letter From Minnesota: Going From the Nightmare to the Poem

Letter From Minnesota: Going From the Nightmare to the Poem

Kara Olson on the Struggle to Make Meaning From Chaos

By Kara Olson | February 17, 2026

Sheila Heti on Torborg Nedreaas’s <em>Nothing Grows by Moonlight<em/>

Sheila Heti on Torborg Nedreaas’s Nothing Grows by Moonlight

“Her life has been brutally severed multiple times by that unholy necessity: abortion.”

By Sheila Heti | February 17, 2026

Meet the Father of Modern European Fascism: The Marquis de Morès

Meet the Father of Modern European Fascism: The Marquis de Morès

Sergio Luzzatto on the French Origins of the Revolutionary Far-Right

By Sergio Luzzatto | February 17, 2026

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

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

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

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

Michael Torres on Life in the Lens of Authoritarianism

By Michael Torres | February 13, 2026

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

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

Anna Nygren on Writing Between Intertextuality, Obsession and Categorization

By Anna Nygren | February 13, 2026

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

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

Sun Yung Shin on the Ever-Shifting Meanings of US Citizenship

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

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