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Confusion

Crossroads

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Books of the Year

Atlantic literary editor Benjamin Schwarz picks the 25 best in a crowded field

On Being a Bad Mother

True confessions

The Zealot

Arthur Koestler’s manic intellectual career

Cover to Cover

America's birth certificate revealed; paradoxical Pops; and more

Double-X Films

Not just chick flicks, the movies of Nora Ephron and Nancy Meyers defy categorization and provide a sentimental education for everyone.

What’s Your Problem?

How to start your own advice column, whether to clean the hotel room before the maid arrives, and other conundrums

Fern Glade

An Outline of Psychoanalysis

SOCAR Oil Fields #3, Baku, Azerbaijan, 2006

The New New Advertising

Fern Glade

The poet reads this poem aloud

A Woman's Touch

James Parker comments on his favorite scenes from When Harry Met Sally and What Women Want

Houses of the Future

In New Orleans, a new kind of house is rising from the ruins of Katrina. Cheap, green, and radically hip, it may change architecture for a generation.

Mad About Mad Men

What’s wrong—and what’s gloriously right—with AMC’s hit show

The Pity of War

Is leading one’s own troops to slaughter ever justified?

Cover to Cover

Alice Munro's way with women; the obstetric dialectic; and more

Retching With the Stars

The addictive appeal of Dr. Drew Pinsky’s Celebrity Rehab

Villanelle with a Refrain from the Wall Street Journal

Cardinal

The Burning Ship

Whitewash

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Miami: The Next Big Start-Up City?

How the city became a center for innovation

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A Brief History of Romantic Comedies

From The Atlantic's Chris Orr

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Life in 'the New Arctic'

A moving portrait of a fading landscape

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The Rise of New York City

A fascinating look at Manhattan in the 1940s

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What Is Methane Hydrate?

"Flaming ice" is a vast natural energy source

Video

NASA's Time-Lapse of the Sun

Now with epic dubstep music

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Shaken Not Tuned: Cocktail Experiments

Can a tuning fork improve a cocktail?

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Is He Cheating? A 1950s Guide

'That little blonde secretary from the office?’

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New Yorkers: Vintage Vacuum-Tube Amps

Risking electric shock to restore old amplifiers

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The DIY Piano-Bicycle

Everybody needs a hobby

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