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New Advice Column
The Atlantic will be launching a new advice column in an upcoming issue of the magazine. But first, we need your help. READ MORE
March 1998
Belgian and Bubbly
A Belgian beer company plans to take over Anheuser-Busch. In 1998, Corby Kummer assessed the state of Belgian beer, and found much to admire. READ MORE
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THE PUZZLER
Try your hand at “Pool Puzzle,” the July/August installment of The Atlantic’s monthly word game.
FOR THE RECORD
 | That has always been the hardest part for me, approaching the stranger at the cash register to say that I am the seven o’clock show. We would look at each other without a shred of hope and both understand that no one was coming. |  |
| —Ann Patchett |
From “My Life In Sales,”, Fiction Issue 2008
Special Feature
July 2008
The 2008 Fiction Issue
Fiction, poetry, and essays by Wendell Berry, Ann Patchett, Aryn Kyle, Linda Bierds, and more. READ MORE
From the Archives
Kay Ryan Named Poet Laureate
Read a sampling of Ryan’s Atlantic poems, including “Among English Verbs” (1998), “This Life” (1993), “Emptiness” (1993), and “Hailstorm” (2003). READ MORE
Politics and Society
July/August 2008
Re-Thinking Jeffrey Goldberg
Intrigued (and alarmed) by the new science of “neuromarketing,” our correspondent peers into his own brain via an MRI machine and learns what he really thinks about Jimmy Carter, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, Bruce Springsteen, and Edie Falco. READ MORE
Foreign Affairs
July/August 2008
The Master and Medvedev
Why Vladimir Putin’s successful effort to handpick his replacement may backfire READ MORE
Technology
July/August 2008
Electro-Shock Therapy
New data suggests General Motors may need to declare bankruptcy. In the July/August issue, Jonathan Rauch reports on GM’s effort to reinvent the automobile and save itself with the invention of a new electric car. READ MORE
July/August 2008
The 11 1/2 Biggest Ideas of the Year
A thumbnail intellectual history of the year. (Plus, submit your own suggestions for the idea (or ideas) that have been most important this year. Some submissions may be included in a future issue of the magazine.) READ MORE
