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Contemporary Atlantic writers reflect on 25 voices from the archives who helped shape the publication—and the nation.
“Consider a future device … in which an individual stores all his books, records, and communications, and which is mechanized so that it may be consulted with exceeding speed and flexibility. It is an enlarged intimate supplement to his memory.”
July 1945 Issue
More comfortable online than out partying, post-Millennials are safer, physically, than adolescents have ever been. But they’re on the brink of a mental-health crisis.
September 2017 Issue
American politicians are now eager to disown a failed criminal-justice system that’s left the U.S. with the largest incarcerated population in the world. But they’ve failed to reckon with history. Fifty years after Daniel Patrick Moynihan’s report “The Negro Family” tragically helped create this system, it’s time to reclaim his original intent.
October 2015 Issue
Despite the easing of taboos and the rise of hookup apps, Americans are in the midst of a sex recession.
December 2018 Issue
The platform’s entertainment for children is weirder—and more globalized—than adults could have expected.
November 2018 Issue
Lab tests have suggested that a papyrus scrap mentioning Jesus’s wife is authentic. Why do most scholars believe it’s fake?
December 2014 Issue
Why has the media establishment become so unpopular? Perhaps the public has good reason to think that the media’s self-aggrandizement gets in the way of solving the country’s real problems.
February 1996 IssueCoates, the author of Between the World and Me, wrote “The Case for Reparations” as a national correspondent for The Atlantic.
Woolf was a novelist and a pioneer of literary modernism.
Before writing Silent Spring, Carson made her mark as an environmental journalist with the Atlantic essay “Undersea.”
White was an essayist, a novelist, and a grammarian. His Atlantic essay “Death of a Pig” was a nonfiction prototype for Charlotte’s Web.
West’s reporting on her travels through the Balkans, published in The Atlantic in 1941, was compiled in the book Black Lamb and Grey Falcon.
One of the most popular writers of his time, Dickens was the author of works including A Christmas Carol and A Tale of Two Cities.
Smith is an Atlantic contributing writer, a playwright, and an actor.
Auden published his first poem for The Atlantic in 1939, the year he emigrated from England to the United States.
Vonnegut was the author of 14 novels, as well as numerous short-story collections, plays, and works of nonfiction.
