Amy Weiss-Meyer
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Erika Larsen for The Atlantic Judy Blume Goes All the Way
A new generation discovers the poet laureate of puberty.
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The Jewish Museum Berlin, Gift of Harry Kindermann The Story of Marion Ehrlich
Reconstructing the life of the teenager whose name appears on our December cover
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Science Photo Library / NASA Is She a Fluke? A Token? A Trailblazer?
When women enter the frame
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Peter van Agtmael / Magnum The Power of Trump’s Magnetism in One Photo
Capturing the intensity of a crowd’s adulation
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Douglas Elbinger / Getty What Stephen Sondheim Knew About Endings
His work was strongest when it lingered in the pain of knowing that no ever after lasts long.
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Getty; Reading Rainbow / PBS; The Atlantic ‘We Didn’t Need Money. We Needed Paper Cranes.’
After 9/11, the kids from a school near Ground Zero were briefly, weirdly, famous for their proximity to tragedy. What has this anniversary season meant to them?
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Eugene Richards What New York Looked Like After 9/11
Photographs from before the smoke cleared
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Ezra Carlsen / The Atlantic ‘A Wishing So Strong That There Are Moments She Nearly Believes It’
The writer Morgan Thomas on desire and risk
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Peter van Agtmael / Magnum The Surreality of Documenting 2020
“What will resonate in a year or a decade? It’s just a bunch of pictures of people with masks.”
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Melissa Dale Neal What Novelists Can Learn From Playwrights
Brontez Purnell on writing fiction from a theater background
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Peter Terzian / The Atlantic Caleb Crain on Math, Solitude, and the Nature of Time
“For a long time, I was a pretty strict realist, but lately I seem to be relenting.”
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Brooks Kraft LLC / Sygma / Getty / … The Bush-Gore Recount Is an Omen for 2020
An oral history of the craziest presidential election in modern history
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Djenno Bacvic Photography / The Atlantic What Ever Happened to the Gospel of Jesus’s Wife?
A conversation with Ariel Sabar about the stranger-than-fiction story of a Harvard professor, a con artist, and a papyrus fragment that made front-page news
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Clay Benskin Summer Days
Street scenes from city life
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Erin Kirkland The Beauty of Age
Scenes from an all-women’s nursing home
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Camille Picquot A View From the Before Times
When riding the subway seemed mundane
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The Visible Exhaustion of Doctors and Nurses Fighting the Coronavirus
Documenting the marks the pandemic is leaving on medical professionals in Italy
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Christopher Payne Fine Motor Skills
Photos from a factory where automation has yet to take hold
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Joshua Dudley Greer Christmas Under the Bypass
A photograph by Joshua Dudley Greer
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Evan Vucci / AP / Pool New / … The Year in Letters
How Atlantic readers responded to the news in 2018
