Eleanor Barkhorn

Eleanor Barkhorn is a senior associate editor at The Atlantic, where she oversees the Sexes channel. A former teacher with Teach for America, she used to edit the Entertainment channel. More

She is a former producer for the Food channel. Before coming to The Atlantic, she was a reporter at the Delta Democrat Times in Greenville, Mississippi. She graduated from Princeton University, where she majored in American literature and wrote her senior thesis about Oprah's Book Club. For her first two years out of college, she taught high school English with the Teach For America program.

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The director's depiction of college life is more upbeat, and more unreal, than any of his past films. More »

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Vote for Which Charles Dickens Book 1book140 Will Read in March

Help us decide which novel to tackle for the next month of our Twitter-based reading club. More »

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Submit your nominations for which Dickens title we'll read next in our Twitter-based book club. More »

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'This Means War' raises the question: What happened to the actress who played Tracy Flick and June Carter? More »

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From "My Name Is Earl" to Leno in primetime, a look at the at the shows that were hyped as hits for the last-place network More »

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