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Zimmer/Picture-Alliance/DPA/AP Was the Great War Necessary?
In Britain today, many see the war as a slaughter without necessity or meaning. But a great deal was at stake.
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Thomas Allen The Rise and Fall of Charm in American Men
Few possess it, and few want to. Explaining men's ambivalent relationship with an amoral virtue.
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Jack Hughes The Love Life and Cultural Influence of Martin Amis
On the new biography of a literary Lothario
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Kareem Rizk Chapter and Verse: The Unknown Prose of a Great Poet
Reassessing the literary legacy of the Lost Generation's Edward Thomas
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Estate of Georgy Ivanovich Pimenov/Rao, Moscow/Vaga, NY/Bridgeman Art … Moscow Under Terror
In 1937, the city was both a world capital of artistic ferment and a slaughterhouse.
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Phaidon Indelible Images
Two beautiful new coffee-table books—except one isn’t really a book
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Ralph Crane/Time-Life Pictures/Getty The Real Cuban Missile Crisis
Everything you think you know about those 13 days is wrong.
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Oscar Niemeyer: A Vision in Concrete
The work of the great Brazilian architect, who died Wednesday, continues to enchant and appall students of architecture and urban planning.
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Books of the Year 2012: The Top 5 and the Runners Up
Benjamin Schwarz picks the 15 best books reviewed in The Atlantic or published in 2012.
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Jack Hughes The Education of Virginia Woolf
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Books of the Year 2012
The Atlantic's literary editor picks the five best of the crop.
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Underwood & Underwood/Corbis The End of Jazz
How America’s most vibrant music became a relic
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A Tragic Sense of Life: Remembering Two Great Historians
Eugene Genovese and Eric Hobsbawm, who died within days of each other, were fearless scholars with old-fashioned manners and a healthy contempt for unchecked individualism.
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Nick Higgins Sex Lives of Novelists
Writing about writers; an atrocity ignored; the most influential book in English
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Ruggero Vanni/Corbis A Harsh Beauty
Revising the Escorial, plus the wonders of Wonder Bread
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Hank Walker/Time & Life Pictures/Getty The Cruel Idealist
LBJ’s better angels, plus the power of Big Oil
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Michael Rosenfeld/Getty Night Owls
How nightlife changed Western culture, plus why New Zealand is better than the U.S.
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John Donegan/Getty Images The Hitch
The story behind Christopher Hitchens’s March 2012 essay
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Otis Imboden/National Geographic Tales From the Crypt
Two books uncover the romance and adventure of archaeology.
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Everett Collection The Perfect Wife
The nicest star in Hollywood, plus the man who made what Americans looked at
