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Linda McCartney / Apple Corps Ltd. / Disney+ Like Watching Six Different Marriages Fall Apart
What Peter Jackson’s Get Back reveals about the Beatles breakup
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Tim Lahan An Ode to Barbecue Potato Chips
Void of nutritional value, divorced from the intense culinary process that is actual barbecuing, irresistible
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Illustration by Gabriela Pesqueira. Source: Universal History Archive … Why Did Dostoyevsky Write Crime and Punishment?
He had no choice.
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Tim Lahan An Ode to Being Yelled At
Everyone, now and then, needs a good and thorough denouncing.
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The Atlantic Ozymandias 2
A poem for Monday
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Tim Lahan An Ode to Squirrels
What animal lives closer to us than you do?
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Redferns / Getty; The Atlantic This Could Be Heaven—Or This Could Be Hell
An evening with the Eagles, on their Hotel California tour.
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Illustration by Katie Martin; image by Heritage Images … Joseph Campbell’s Woman Problem
In the writer’s classic study of world myths, women were in the background. A new book aims to change that.
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Tim Lahan Down With Morning People
Morning people fizzle. Non-morning people get stronger as the day wears on.
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Tim Lahan An Ode to Procrastination
The existential exhilaration of playing chicken with Time
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Tim Lahan An Ode to My Flip Phone
Why can’t I quit you?
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Illustration by Katie Martin; images from Popperfoto / … The Dharma of Working Out
In her new memoir, Alison Bechdel runs, climbs, bikes, skis, spins, and Soloflexes her way toward transcendence.
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Getty / The Atlantic The Atlantic Daily: An Hour of Music for Your Next Road Trip
Got wheels, America? The skyline calls—drive for an hour in any direction, with this playlist, and you'll hit it.
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Tim Lahan An Ode to the Left Hand
Get in touch with your nondominant side.
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Bruce Gilden / Magnum Florida Man
A poem for the congressman from Florida
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Photographer unknown / John F. Kennedy Presidential Library … ‘Eliminate Every Superfluous Word’
Ken Burns and Lynn Novick’s new documentary, Hemingway, dramatizes one of the great revolutions in the history of American literature.
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End Meeting for All
When we remember this time, we’ll do so through a bunch of little boxes on a laptop screen. The photographer Thomas Dworzak captured our strange, sad year on Zoom.
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Tim Lahan An Ode to Not Meditating
Uncross those aching legs, solemn sitter.
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Illustration by Oliver Munday; Bernard Gotfryd / Hulton … The Relentless Philip Roth
In his life as in his fiction, the author pursued the shameful, the libidinous, the repellent.
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Tim Lahan An Ode to Low Expectations
You’ll be happier if you grade reality on a curve.
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