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Counterpoint Books The Dark Side of DIY
How Americans destroyed their own labor force without even noticing
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Text Publishing Death on Father’s Day
“The Joan Didion of Australia” writes a masterful book about a real-life family tragedy.
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Brian Snyder/Reuters Passion Plays
Kirstin Valdez Quade’s theatrical new short-story collection
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Beinecke Library/Yale University Edith Wharton Reveals the 'Deeper Processes' Behind Her Art
In a 1933 Atlantic article, the novelist shared her elaborate, self-aware approach to writing.
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Kara Gordon/The Atlantic Six Books We Missed This Year
And the titles their authors say they loved
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cvm/Shutterstock A Postmodern Riff on Thomas Mann
Peter Stamm’s All Days Are Night follows two characters in search of a cure.
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Penguin Books Portraits of Claustrophobic Russian Mothers
Three novellas about family
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Twelve The Other Helen Keller
An unusual historical novel
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FSG Pain Tourism
Travels in the land of empathy
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Jillian Tamaki A Chekhov From China
Yiyun Li’s latest novel maps new extremes of loneliness.
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Norton How Shirley Temple Helped FDR
The tiny actress showed demoralized grown-ups how much spunky perseverance could achieve.
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I Heard God's Voice: What's Up With That?
Barbara Ehrenreich tries to make rational sense of an adolescent epiphany.
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The European Great Gatsby
A classic book makes a comeback
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Crown Rediscovering Middlemarch in Middle Age
A new book in brief
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Mike McQuade How to Escape the Community-College Trap
More than half of community-college students never earn a degree. Here's how to fix that.
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Oberto Gili/Harper Cover to Cover
A new essay anthology captures the power of city parks.
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Liveright Cover to Cover
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As the Race for the Booker Prize Ends, Revisit Its Beginnings (Literally)
The Luminaries author Eleanor Catton, 27, became the youngest Booker Prize winner ever Tuesday. Read the first lines of her book and the other shortlisted novels below.
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Cover to Cover
New fiction from Jhumpa Lahiri, and the joy of singing with others
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The Suspenseful Home Stretch of the Man Booker Prize
Follow along as The Atlantic reports on the shortlisted books for the next five weeks.
