Before 'We Saw Your Boobs': The Sexism and Satire War From 1732
Jonathan Swift described the horrors of discovering that women poop—and Lady Mary Wortley Montagu responded in bitingly funny fashion.
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Jonathan Swift described the horrors of discovering that women poop—and Lady Mary Wortley Montagu responded in bitingly funny fashion.
These 20 self-renderings reveal the ways some famous visionaries have seen themselves.
Choose the next selection for our Twitter book club.
The author benefited from adopting Murakami's philosophy of prioritizing fitness in order to maximize creativity.
Images of post-modernists in Midtown, Twain in repose, and more
Some famous thinkers make gifted elucidators when they step behind the lectern; others are more like nutty professors.
Wednesday evening, The Atlantic's Twitter book club held a live Q&A with the author.
The prolific author remembers a quote from Albert Camus about the Greek myth of King Sisyphus when she gets discouraged.
Nominate selections for our Twitter book club's next read.
A new book about the forward-thinking 'Li'l Abner' cartoonist reminds why he had so far to fall.
100 years after the publication of 'Pollyanna,' the novel offers a mascot for the modern happiness obsession.
A conversation with the author of 'The Fault in Our Stars,' this month's 1book140 selection.
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Author Benjamin Nugent shares the passage of 'The Corrections' that influenced his new novel.
Orson Scott Card wouldn't just contradict the Man of Steel's inherent goodness—he'd highlight his inherent fascism.
To rewrite that stories that end in killings, we need to read other ones.
Contemporary writers discuss their favorite romantic sentiments by Emily Dickinson, Walt Whitman, Sylvia Plath, and more
Robert Seidman's novel 'Moments Captured' embellishes the tale of Eadweard Muybridge.
Andrew Wylie has a reputation for ruthlessness, but there's another side to him and the industry he represents.
The author of 'Go the Fuck to Sleep' shares the Michel de Montaigne aphorism he writes by.
The world may never run out of oil—and the consequences could be dire. Plus: avoiding the worst parts of death, Henry Kissinger's statesmanship, reconsidering hair metal, and more.
