Whitmore, 1969 Back from Vietnam, seeking salvation in Bob Dylan
by Dominic Smith
by Richard Russo
Night Bus The treacherous route to Lagos
by Ada Udechukwu
INTERVIEWS Out of the Darkness Ada Udechukwu on art, writing, and the politics of her troubled homeland [Web only]L. Debard and Aliette A love story
by Lauren Groff
What Happened to the Baby? Uncle Simon was crazy about words. Really crazy
by Cynthia Ozick
The Safe A junkyard mystery
by Tim Gautreaux
Close Reading
Learning to write by learning to read
by Francine Prose
INTERVIEWS Reading and Writing Novelist and critic Francine Prose talks about creativity, literary craftsmanship, and her new book, Reading Like a Writer [Web only]Academic Discourse and Adulterous Intercourse
FLASHBACKS So You Want to Be a Writer Wallace Stegner, Francine Prose, John Kenneth Galbraith, and others offer advice to aspiring wordsmiths
What campus novels can teach us
by Megan Marshall
Notes on the History of Fiction
Who would give up the Iliad for the “real” historical record?
by E. L. Doctorow
Arts and Letters 150 years of The Atlantic
Datura
by Brooks Haxton
A Mile Down the Road from Home
[with audio]
by Brendan Galvin
Bright Shadow
by Linda Gregerson
Nightfall
by Brad Leithauser
Lottery
[with audio]
by John Skoyles
Rue Family
by Christina Pugh
Sing-Along Messiah, Disney Hall
by Adam Kirsch
Squeezebox
[with audio]
by James Reiss
COMING SOON Poet in Residence David Barber, The Atlantic’s poetry editor, talks about the writing and teaching of poetry, and about his new collection of poems, Wonder Cabinet [Web only]
ALSO SEE Fiction Issue 2005 Joyce Carol Oates, "*BD* 11 1 86"; Charles Baxter, "Poor Devil"; Adam Haslett, "City Visit"; Shira Nayman, "The House on Kronenstrasse"; George Singleton, "Director's Cut"; Curtis Sittenfeld, "The Perils of Literary Success"; Rick Moody, "Writers and Mentors"; Mary Gordon, "Moral Fiction"; and much more.
Literary Interviews An index of Atlantic Unbound interviews with fiction writers, poets, and critics from Chinua Achebe to Tobias Wolff.