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The Atlantic
01.07.2025
A recent book suggests that Latin American democracy may hold lessons for the current U.S. political moment
30.06.2025
A poem
28.06.2025
A fantastical new novel from Karen Russell turns the whispered secrets of a Dust Bowl town into a bold metaphor for repressed history.
As a writer and an editor, she put humanity plainly on the page, where it would outlast her and her critics alike.
25.06.2025
At night, she worked on her novels. By day, as an editor at Random House, she championed a new generation of writers.
How did the concept become the solution to society’s most deeply entrenched problems?
Literature is often pushed on allegedly reluctant men as a machine for empathy. I read it for a different reason.
24.06.2025
How did freedom become synonymous with having lots of options?
23.06.2025
22.06.2025
In Pip Adam’s extraordinary, humane book <em>Audition</em>, the stars are both a dystopian place and a site of uncharted possibility.
21.06.2025
After I finished college, Leslie Jamison’s <em>The Empathy Exams</em> won my allegiance immediately and forever.
19.06.2025
In her new book, <em>Murderland</em>, Caroline Fraser argues that the rise of these criminals has deep roots in the release of industrial waste.
17.06.2025
How Richard Ellman made James Joyce a hero to generations of readers and scholars
16.06.2025
My grandfather helped his family survive in Nazi-occupied Austria. What his story taught me about fatherhood.
14.06.2025
These titles are great tools for anyone trying to navigate new opportunities, new places, or new phases of life.
Melissa Febos’s <em>The Dry Season</em> made me wonder what narrow portals I’m looking through in my life, and what I might see if I turn away from them.
12.06.2025
A new book explores what the wolf’s return to the continent means for people who have never known its presence.
10.06.2025
As Donald Trump prepares to host <em>Les Mis </em>at the Kennedy Center, a Victor Hugo scholar imagines what the author would make of the president.
Purposeful refusal, far from depriving us, can make way for unexpected bounty.
07.06.2025
What the great teen movies tell us about American adolescence
06.06.2025
My quest for a true literary experience resulted in <em>choucroute</em>, a surprise organ feast, an epiphany at the Louvre, existential dread, and a rowboat.
05.06.2025
Edmund White, who died yesterday at 85, infused his life with as much pleasure as he did his writing.
Andrey Kurkov’s crime thrillers provide timely lessons for anyone living under an oppressive regime.
04.06.2025
Susan Choi’s new book, <em>Flashlight</em>, considers the evolution of rage.
03.06.2025
Melissa Febos’s new book, <em>The Dry Season</em>, recounts a year of celibacy and the freedom it gave her to reconnect with the world.
02.06.2025
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
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
Two recent flare-ups over commencement speeches show how difficult—and necessary—truly defending free expression is.
The cartoonist has spent a lifetime worrying. In a new graphic novel, she finds something like solace.