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The Atlantic

20.02.2025

A Divorce Memoir With No Lessons - The Atlantic

Haley Mlotek’s new book provides neither catharsis nor remedies for heartache, but rather a tender exploration of human intimacy.

The Atlantic

19.02.2025

When Robert Frost Was Bad - The Atlantic

Before he became America’s most famous poet, he wrote some real howlers.

The Atlantic

18.02.2025

A Poem by Rachel Richardson: ‘Domestic’ - The Atlantic

A poem

The Atlantic

14.02.2025

Seven Books That Capture How Love Really Feels - The Atlantic

These books are all exquisite arguments for the necessity of stories about romance.

The Atlantic

14.02.2025

The Books Briefing: The Fantasy of a More Neighborly Past - The Atlantic

Sun City offers evidence that widespread isolation began long before Americans became absorbed in their phones.

The Atlantic

14.02.2025

America in 2025: A Poem - The Atlantic

A poem

The Atlantic

14.02.2025

What the Color Blue Reveals About Black Life - The Atlantic

Imani Perry’s latest book examines the intersections between the color blue and the history of her people.

The Atlantic

12.02.2025

The Comedy Curator of 'Saturday Night Live' - The Atlantic

How Lorne Michaels became the arbiter of funny

The Atlantic

12.02.2025

Hanif Kureishi’s Relentlessly Revealing Memoir - The Atlantic

How a tragic accident helped the author find his rebellious voice again

The Atlantic

12.02.2025

Ali Smith’s Ghost Stories - The Atlantic

Ali Smith scrambles plotlines, upends characters, and flouts chronology—while telling propulsively readable stories.

The Atlantic

12.02.2025

The Paradox of Music Discovery, the Spotify Way - The Atlantic

A new book explores the company’s commitment to shaping what its users hear.

The Atlantic

12.02.2025

A New, Unbearably Honest Kind of Writing - The Atlantic

Two authors’ memoirs attempt to communicate intensely isolating experiences to readers.

The Atlantic

12.02.2025

Blame Gerald Ford for Trump’s Unaccountability - The Atlantic

In a new book, Jeffrey Toobin makes a convincing case that Ford’s pardon of President Nixon set the stage for unchecked presidential power.

The Atlantic

12.02.2025

How ‘All Quiet on the Western Front’ Transformed War Writing - The Atlantic

In All Quiet on the Western Front, Erich Maria Remarque reinvented a genre.

The Atlantic

12.02.2025

Reginald Dwayne Betts: ‘Jethro’s Corner’ - The Atlantic

A poem for Sunday

The Atlantic

12.02.2025

Why Hitchens Wanted to Return the Parthenon Marbles - The Atlantic

The British Museum should return the ancient treasures to Greece for the sake of art, not nationalism.

The Atlantic

12.02.2025

A Finnish Writer's Portrait of American Loneliness - The Atlantic

The Finnish writer Tove Jansson returned from a U.S. trip with a new perspective on home—and an enduring novel.

The Atlantic

01.02.2025

The Books Briefing: Why Contemporary Fiction Loves Analog Tech - The Atlantic

In Catherine Airey’s new novel, a young person’s curiosity about a life lived without social media or streaming is deployed to superb effect.

The Atlantic

01.02.2025

The Writer Who Was Afraid of Books - The Atlantic

Sarah Chihaya’s unconventional memoir charts her troubled relationship with the literature that formed her.

The Atlantic

31.01.2025

In Books and On-Screen, Analog Tech Is Everywhere - The Atlantic

A crop of stories is responding to the fakery of the digital age by embracing the realness of analog objects.

The Atlantic

27.01.2025

A Poem by J. Mae Barizo: ‘Cloud Pantoum’ - The Atlantic

A poem for Sunday

The Atlantic

25.01.2025

The Books Briefing: What to Read in the Face of Disaster - The Atlantic

Can any writer offer useful wisdom when ash rains over a metropolis?

The Atlantic

23.01.2025

A Case for Sisyphus and Hopeful Pessimism - The Atlantic

How to embrace hopeful pessimism in a moment of despair

The Atlantic

23.01.2025

LA's 'Dark Prophet,' Mike Davis, Wasn’t Dark Enough - The Atlantic

As fires have raged, so have citations of the prescient author Mike Davis. But in a changed world, we need new thinkers too.

The Atlantic

22.01.2025

Donald Trump is the new language cop - The Atlantic

Whether renaming the “Gulf of America” or issuing edicts on gender, Trump is enforcing his own brand of political correctness.

The Atlantic

20.01.2025

A Poem by Cheyenne McGuire: ‘The Millworker’s Wife’ - The Atlantic

A poem for Sunday

The Atlantic

18.01.2025

The Books Briefing: How Does a Real Person Become a Character? - The Atlantic

Two novels take different approaches to bringing the dead back to life.

The Atlantic

17.01.2025

The Forgotten Woman Who Transformed Forensics - The Atlantic

In the 1970s, Martha Goddard invented the rape kit. So why did she die in relative obscurity?

The Atlantic

16.01.2025

The Hipster Grifter Peaked Too Soon - The Atlantic

Kari Ferrell’s memoir is a zippy, intimate account of low-level trickery before the era of scams fully erupted.

The Atlantic

16.01.2025

A New Kind of Immigrant Novel - The Atlantic

Aria Aber’s debut about an Afghan German party girl in Berlin shows that there are plenty of ways to tell an outsider’s story.

The Atlantic

15.01.2025

Where Han Kang's Nightmares Come From - The Atlantic

In her novels, the South Korean Nobel laureate returns again and again to her country’s bloody past.

The Atlantic

14.01.2025

A Palestinian Story Unlike Any Other - The Atlantic

In her debut novel, Too Soon, Betty Shamieh isn’t trying to educate or enlighten.

The Atlantic

14.01.2025

Can a Novel Resurrect the Dead? - The Atlantic

Lily Tuck’s attempt to bring to life a victim of the Holocaust turns her into a prosecutor, not a novelist.

The Atlantic

13.01.2025

A Poem by Marge Piercy: ‘We stay and its ours’ - The Atlantic

A poem for Sunday

The Atlantic

11.01.2025

The Books Briefing: Why We Celebrate When Copyright Expires - The Atlantic

Every January 1 in the Books department, we like to make an extra toast for a concurrent holiday: Public Domain Day.

The Atlantic

11.01.2025

What to Read When the Odds Are Against You - The Atlantic

Literature is full of reminders that long odds can sometimes be surmounted.

The Atlantic

11.01.2025

The Wild Charity of Saint Francis - The Atlantic

Kindness has become countercultural. Perhaps Saint Francis can help.

The Atlantic

08.01.2025

How Sherlock Holmes Broke Copyright Law - The Atlantic

Adaptations of Holmes stories are exploding now that the detective is in the public domain. Critics believe it should have happened decades ago.

The Atlantic

04.01.2025

Five Books That Offer Readers Intellectual Exercise - The Atlantic

Each of these titles exercises a different kind of reading muscle, so that you can choose the one that will push you most.

The Atlantic

04.01.2025

The Books Briefing: How ‘the End’ Helps Us Find New Beginnings - The Atlantic

Contemplating death at the start of a new year

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The Atlantic - Books & Literature

A Divorce Memoir With No Lessons - The Atlantic

When Robert Frost Was Bad - The Atlantic

A Poem by Rachel Richardson: ‘Domestic’ - The Atlantic

Seven Books That Capture How Love Really Feels - The Atlantic

The Books Briefing: The Fantasy of a More Neighborly Past - The Atlantic

America in 2025: A Poem - The Atlantic

What the Color Blue Reveals About Black Life - The Atlantic

The Comedy Curator of 'Saturday Night Live' - The Atlantic

Hanif Kureishi’s Relentlessly Revealing Memoir - The Atlantic

Ali Smith’s Ghost Stories - The Atlantic

The Paradox of Music Discovery, the Spotify Way - The Atlantic

A New, Unbearably Honest Kind of Writing - The Atlantic

Blame Gerald Ford for Trump’s Unaccountability - The Atlantic

How ‘All Quiet on the Western Front’ Transformed War Writing - The Atlantic

Reginald Dwayne Betts: ‘Jethro’s Corner’ - The Atlantic

Why Hitchens Wanted to Return the Parthenon Marbles - The Atlantic

A Finnish Writer's Portrait of American Loneliness - The Atlantic

The Books Briefing: Why Contemporary Fiction Loves Analog Tech - The Atlantic

The Writer Who Was Afraid of Books - The Atlantic

In Books and On-Screen, Analog Tech Is Everywhere - The Atlantic

A Poem by J. Mae Barizo: ‘Cloud Pantoum’ - The Atlantic

The Books Briefing: What to Read in the Face of Disaster - The Atlantic

A Case for Sisyphus and Hopeful Pessimism - The Atlantic

LA's 'Dark Prophet,' Mike Davis, Wasn’t Dark Enough - The Atlantic

Donald Trump is the new language cop - The Atlantic

A Poem by Cheyenne McGuire: ‘The Millworker’s Wife’ - The Atlantic

The Books Briefing: How Does a Real Person Become a Character? - The Atlantic

The Forgotten Woman Who Transformed Forensics - The Atlantic

The Hipster Grifter Peaked Too Soon - The Atlantic

A New Kind of Immigrant Novel - The Atlantic

Where Han Kang's Nightmares Come From - The Atlantic

A Palestinian Story Unlike Any Other - The Atlantic

Can a Novel Resurrect the Dead? - The Atlantic

A Poem by Marge Piercy: ‘We stay and its ours’ - The Atlantic

The Books Briefing: Why We Celebrate When Copyright Expires - The Atlantic

What to Read When the Odds Are Against You - The Atlantic

The Wild Charity of Saint Francis - The Atlantic

How Sherlock Holmes Broke Copyright Law - The Atlantic

Five Books That Offer Readers Intellectual Exercise - The Atlantic

The Books Briefing: How ‘the End’ Helps Us Find New Beginnings - The Atlantic

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