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The Atlantic
31.05.2025
He was misunderstood, then adored, then vilified. Who was he really?
Alternatives to the medical or economic state of affairs offer hope—and danger.
30.05.2025
When malaise strikes, a book can break the spell—if you choose the right<em> </em>one.
A new book reveals how health-care inequality fueled the spread of anti-science conspiracy theories.
29.05.2025
Powerful Silicon Valley leaders are prioritizing their utopian vision of the future over the concerns of people in the present.
27.05.2025
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A growing number of climate activists are taking up a fresh idea as a rallying cry and a legal strategy: Nature, in all its manifestations, is alive.
24.05.2025
The 1970s campaign fought to get women paid for their work in the home—and envisioned a society built to better support motherhood.
The author is willing to let her main character be both her double and the butt of her joke.
22.05.2025
A new book reveals how Big Pharma’s brazen behavior fueled medical mistrust.
Direct-selling schemes are considered fringe businesses, but their values have bled into the national economy.
20.05.2025
The cartoonist has spent a lifetime worrying. In a new graphic novel, she finds something like solace.
Two recent flare-ups over commencement speeches show how difficult—and necessary—truly defending free expression is.
17.05.2025
“Five people were running the country,” a political insider told the authors of the new book <em>Original Sin</em>. “And Joe Biden was at best a senior member of the board.”
16.05.2025
<em>The Atlantic</em>’s writers and editors have chosen fiction and nonfiction to match all sorts of moods.
14.05.2025
A new book shows that dementia isn’t just a loss, and memory is much more than recollection.
13.05.2025
What happened when a mega-famous evangelist went missing?
12.05.2025
10.05.2025
These stories offer a starting point—and perhaps some insights—for those seeking perspective on their parent.
The kind of freedom that Mavis Gallant’s characters seek can still be out of reach.
Ron Chernow’s biography dwells more on the wreck of a man than on his sublimely comic work.
09.05.2025
Espionage has always been with us, but its rapid growth over the past century raises questions about who we are.
08.05.2025
Advice columns have always appealed to people’s perennial confusion about love and marriage.
07.05.2025
Keith McNally’s new memoir is full of revelations, but one stands out: His work is an underrated art form.
In a new novel, Daniel Kehlmann considers why the director G. W. Pabst worked with the Nazis.
06.05.2025
Amanda Hess’s new book examines a surplus of experts and gadgets that promise to perfect the experience of raising children.
05.05.2025
A new stage production of <em>The Picture of Dorian Gray</em> conveys the cost of posturing online.
04.05.2025
Mavis Gallant’s short stories are about people, especially women, who prefer to live on the social margins. I cherish one of them most of all.
03.05.2025
Reading al fresco isn’t always idyllic, but it can be sublime.
02.05.2025
Reading has been unfairly maligned as an indoor activity for far too long.
30.04.2025
Mainstream Christianity’s attitudes about sex have always been complicated—and its institutions might even be able to evolve.
28.04.2025
26.04.2025
When our waking thoughts get transmuted into dreams, what do we learn?
Imagine a surveillance state powerful enough to incarcerate people for the wrong dreams. In 2025, it doesn’t feel like such a leap.
24.04.2025
A newly reissued book documents the dreams of Germans living under the Nazis, charting totalitarianism’s power over the subconscious.
Why novelists love to imagine great historical figures as detectives
23.04.2025
These visceral reported accounts will help readers better understand the new ecological status quo.
22.04.2025
The publication of the essayist’s private letters undermines a writer famous for her control.
21.04.2025