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On What It Really Means to Live the Writing Life: The Good AND the Bad

Nick Ripatrazone Tracks Down His First Literary Correspondent, Jack Garrett
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Letter From Minnesota: When Men With Guns Enter the Neighborhood

Sahra Noor on Finding Unwanted Echoes of Mogadishu
in Present-Day Minneapolis
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Letter from Minnesota: The Season of Los Helados

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

Letter from Minnesota: When Home is Away from Home

By Su Hwang

Letter From Minnesota: If You Can Survive This, You Can Survive Anything

By Michelle Zamanian

What We Lose When Our Independent Bookstores Close

By Michael Welch

The So-Called Tragedy of the English Commons Was Anything But

By Kate Brown

What Happens When Your Books (Don’t) Get Banned?

By Lydia Millet

What Do You Do When the Biggest Platforms For Readers Are Kind of Evil?

By Maris Kreizman

On the Unlikely Origin of The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time

By Mark Haddon

Letter From Minnesota:
Elegy For Renee Nicole Good

By Ahmed Ismail Yusuf

The Independent Press Top 40 Bestsellers: Fiction

By Literary Hub

Best Reviewed
Books of the Week

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The Annotated Nightstand: What Anne Fadiman is Reading Now, and Next

By Diana Arterian

Yi-Ling Liu on Internet Censorship in China and the U.S.

By Fiction Non Fiction

How the Feeble Human Biped Came to Dominate the Natural World

By Roland Ennos

Imagination is Not Enough: Why Fiction Needs Fieldwork

By Amara Lakhous

Letter From Minnesota: This is Our
Fight Response

By Susan Raffo

The Myth of the Red-Lipped Suffragette

By Eileen G'Sell

Crime Reads

Crime Reads

February 19, 2026

The Best International Crime Fiction of February 2026

By Molly Odintz

The Best Debut Novels of the Month: February 2026

By CrimeReads

Cannibal, the Listicle

By Molly Odintz

10 New Books Coming Out This Week

By CrimeReads

Book Marks

Book Marks

5 Reviews You Need to Read This Week

The Best Reviewed Books of the Week

The Cosmic Library Hears Imaginary Music

By The Cosmic Library

Eight Books About the Ups and Downs of Friendship

By Lillian Li

Sarah Aziza on Memoir as a Work of Art

By Memoir Nation

Whose Journey? On the Travel Writing of Displacement

By Kimberley Kinder

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

By Literary Hub

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

By Michael Torres

The Origins of One of the Most Beloved Video Games of All Time

By Keza MacDonald

Why Does Contemporary Fascism Fetishize the Classics?

By Ed Simon

In Praise of One of America’s All-Time Great Book Sections (RIP)

By Gerald Howard