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Letter From Minnesota:
“Mad Means Something”

Charles Baxter on the Rage of the Poet, and Its Power
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Letter From Minnesota: “If They Take Me and Leave the Children...”

Kao Kalia Yang on Preparing For the Worst in the Face of ICE’s Occupation
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Letter From Minnesota:
Can You Hear Us, America?

Dobby Gibson: “This militarized occupation still feels like a test run for something that I’m not fully imagining.”
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Why Regency Romances Are the Best Type of Romance Novels

Sarah E. Ladd on How the “Rules” of the Period Make It the Most Inspiring to Read and Write

Kim Kelly on the Difference Between a General Strike and a National Shutdown (And Why It Matters)

By Kim Kelly

Letter From Minnesota: On Living in the Hour of Cities Under Siege

By Carolyn Forché

Letter From Minnesota:
Details From an Occupation

By Angela Pelster

Letter From Minnesota: Finding Reverence in the Face of Brutality

By Ed Bok Lee

Letter From Minnesota:
We Are Going to Win

By Katherine Packert Burke

Letter From Minnesota: Vigil in a Besieged City

By Jim Moore

Kim Kelly: Why the American Labor Movement Matters

By Kim Kelly

Lit Hub Will Be Honoring the National Shutdown.

By Jonny Diamond

Letter From Minnesota: This Occupation is Strange But Familiar

By chaun webster

Best Reviewed
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Requiem for Weimar: On Ulrich Alexander Boschwitz’s Berlin Shuffle

By Philip Boehm

A Way of Living: On Direct Action and Survival Work in the Face of American Fascism

By Madeline ffitch

Silence is Collaboration: Academics Must Speak Out Against Fascism

By The Professors of Stockton University

Thomas Pynchon Has Been Warning Us About American Fascism the Whole Time

By Devin Thomas O’Shea

What ICE’s Assault on Ventura County, California Means for the Rest of America

By Steven W. Thrasher

Fascism is Not an Idea to Be Debated, It’s a Set of Actions to Fight

By Aleksandar Hemon

Crime Reads

Crime Reads

January 30, 2026

The Best Psychological Thrillers of February 2026

By Molly Odintz

10 New Books Coming Out This Week

By CrimeReads

10 Speculative Mysteries and Thrillers to Check Out in 2026

By Molly Odintz

The Best Crime Novels, Mysteries, and Thrillers of January 2026

By Molly Odintz

Book Marks

Book Marks

The Best Reviewed Books of the Month

5 Reviews You Need to Read This Week

Alia Hanna Habib Offers a Guide to Finding an Agent

By Alia Hanna Habib

What Should You Read Next? Here Are the Best Reviewed Books of the Week

By Book Marks

The Rise (and Fall) of the Sad Girl Grifter

By Lior Torenberg

American Psycho:
How Donald Trump Brought the “Bateman Doctrine” to the World

By Aron Solomon

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

By James Folta

The Dignity of Human Art and the Secret World of Roald Dahl on The Lit Hub Podcast

By The Lit Hub Podcast

Wandering Around Through Prehistoric Britain

By Graham Robb

How an Enslaved Gardener Transformed the Pecan Into a Cash Crop

By Beronda L. Montgomery

How America’s First Nonbinary Minister Created True Equality in the Newly Born United States

By Nina Sankovitch