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The Atlantic
26.04.2024
AI embodies hypotheticals I can only imagine for myself. But I believe human impediments are what lead us to create meaningful art.
25.04.2024
A poem for Wednesday
24.04.2024
A new history of Indonesia’s fight for independence reveals the brutal means by which the Dutch tried<strong> </strong>to retain power.
22.04.2024
A poem for Sunday
20.04.2024
Flag dishes you want to make, or don’t: The point of this practice is pleasure, not pragmatism.
The author Ruby Tandoh argues for the freedom to cook—and eat—for pleasure.
19.04.2024
A new book explores the roots of our love for certain creatures—and our indifference toward many others.
17.04.2024
In a new memoir, the author reckons with the attack that nearly took his life.
13.04.2024
Clair Wills’s memoir is a timely warning that sexual morality can be enforced only with violence.
<em>The Children’s Bach</em> is a striking picture of how ravaged a life can be when unmoored from any responsibility, and of how necessary it is to take care of others.
12.04.2024
As word of mouth about a book spreads, it begins to spark with a special kind of electricity.
The brilliant novels of Helen Garner depict her generation’s embrace of freedom, but also the sad consequences.
09.04.2024
Published in <em>The Atlantic</em> in 2006
06.04.2024
The books Sophie Gilbert turns to while writing
In 1946, the author repaired to the remote Isle of Jura and wrote his masterpiece, <em>1984</em>. What was he looking for?
05.04.2024
In this novel, Prague is impish, tyrannical—and alive.
04.04.2024
Enjoying literature at a park, a beach, or an open-air café encourages a particular leisurely frame of mind.
In a new book, two sociologists reconstruct the lives of people who were abandoned in death.
03.04.2024
A novel about a young man and the orca named Lolita who knows him better than he knows himself.
01.04.2024
30.03.2024
Two literary accounts of the former president’s rise
29.03.2024
How Rahim Fortune depicts the beauty of a place and its people
Does Frantz Fanon have anything to teach us today?
28.03.2024
In Lisa Ko’s ambitious, messy novel, characters go to extreme lengths in search of a purposeful existence.
27.03.2024
Vinson Cunningham’s new novel takes the reader back to a time when many thought the nation’s first Black president had an answer for every American ailment.
26.03.2024
Can the legendary record producer’s book really make you into an artist?
In a new book, Judith Butler tries to indict gender-critical feminists.
25.03.2024
23.03.2024
In this novel, the act of seeing is an art in itself.
21.03.2024
Reading can help us cultivate a more patient, attentive state of mind by highlighting the beauty present in our day-to-day lives.
19.03.2024
A new novel suggests that finding daily satisfaction is itself a serious job.
18.03.2024
16.03.2024
<em>The Atlantic</em> assembled a list of 136 works of fiction that we consider to be the most significant of the past 100 years.
15.03.2024
136 books that made America think
13.03.2024
The decision by the editors of the literary magazine <em>Guernica</em> to retract an essay about the Israeli-Palestinian conflict reveals much about how the war is hardening human sentiment.
Percival Everett transforms Mark Twain’s classic.
In her new book, Anna Shechtman argues for puzzles that reflect a broader sense of common knowledge.
Two recent books dig into the crisis of modern love—and how we might forge more meaningful connections.