• The War That Would Not End

    Inside the year-long American effort to release the hostages, end the fighting in Gaza, and bring peace to the Middle East

    Photo-collage of Joe Biden, Antony Blinken, and Benjamin Netanyahu
    Illustration by Cristiana Couceiro*
  • The Three Voices of Poetry

    “The first is the voice of the poet talking to himself-or to nobody. The second is the voice of the poet addressing an audience, whether large or small. The third is the voice of the poet when he attempts to create a dramatic character speaking in verse.” (April 1954)

    Three pale, parallel rectangles on a blurry background of greens
    Illustration by The Atlantic. Source: Getty
  • Undersea

    “To sense this world of waters known to the creatures of the sea we must shed our human perceptions of length and breadth and time and place, and enter vicariously into a universe of all-pervading water.” (September 1937)

    A colorful photograph of tiny sea creatures and plants contained within a tidal pool
    Allen J. Schaben / Los Angeles Times / Getty

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