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Rafal Milach / Magnum A Nobel Laureate Walks Into a Supermarket
Annie Ernaux on the malaise of the grocery store
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JK / Magnum 20 Books for This Summer
Recommendations from our Books editors
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Martin Parr / Magnum What You Should Be Reading This Summer
20 books to match some warm-weather moods
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Leonard McLane / Getty Masha Gessen Resigns in Protest From PEN America Board
What happens when free-speech absolutists flinch
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Illustration by Matthieu Bourel. Source: Katharina Behling. Writing in the Ruins
The German writer Jenny Erpenbeck cuts through dogma, fractures time, and preserves rubble.
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Illustration by The Atlantic. Source: Courtesy of Jonathan … A Memoir About Friendship and Mental Illness
A Q&A with Jonathan Rosen, whose new book, The Best Minds, delves into a fraught friendship and the societal response to schizophrenia
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Gili Yaari / NurPhoto / AP What American Liberals Can Learn From Israel’s Protests
Israeli demonstrators have worn the mantle of patriotism, and it’s worked.
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Joanne Imperio / The Atlantic; Claudia Raschke / … A Civil War Over Semicolons
The biographer Robert Caro and his editor, Robert Gottlieb, have been arguing with each other for 50 years.
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Getty; The Atlantic What It Feels Like When Fascism Starts
A 1933 novel tracks the Nazis’ rise to power in real time.
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Dia Dipasupil / Getty The Imani Perry Reading List
The Atlantic contributing writer and author of the Unsettled Territory newsletter is the winner of the 2022 National Book Award for Nonfiction.
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The Atlantic; Heather Sten ‘What Is Jesse Eisenberg Doing Here, Saying These Things I Wrote?’
Taffy Brodesser-Akner on stress dreams, the beauty of long scenes, and translating her novel, Fleishman Is in Trouble, to the small screen.
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Horst Tappe / Getty; The Atlantic All Because Salman Rushdie Wrote a Book
Just as the mind recoils at the sight of a single book burned, the spilled blood of an author inspires revulsion.
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David Turnley / Corbis / Getty What Putin’s Treatment of Jews Reveals About Russia
His move to kick out the agency that assists émigrés to Israel fits a pattern from Soviet times of using Russian Jews as pawns.
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Getty; The Atlantic ‘Watching for Discomfort’: Mark Leibovich on Reporting His New Trump Book
A Q&A with the author on the various ways the Republican subjects of his new book, Thank You for Your Servitude, revealed themselves
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The Atlantic Students Should Refuse to Go Back to School
Despite the hopelessness after Uvalde, we’re closer to understanding the kind of social movement that might actually affect gun reform.
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The Atlantic How to Make Change, Slowly
Making a difference is not just about charismatic leaders and huge protests. As these books show, social and political shifts are usually the result of sustained, unseen work.
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Yevgenia Belorusets Her World Began to Collapse, So She Started Keeping a Diary
The Ukrainian writer and photographer Yevgenia Belorusets on what it means to make art during wartime
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The Atlantic Ukrainians Are Using the Quiet Resistance Tools They Need
The utilization of chat apps like Telegram underscores how, in a world where we expect everything to be public, lasting resistance requires privacy.
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Johanna Geron / AP How Zelensky Gave the World a Jewish Hero
As the Ukrainian president captivates the world with his bravery, he offers a reminder of the inroads Eastern and Central European Jews have made in overcoming their status as perpetual outsiders.
