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The Atlantic Daily: Odes for Thanksgiving 2020
Thaw that turkey, and your soul. We hope these odes to the small pleasures in life will at least bring you back to room temperature.
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Tim Lahan An Ode to Flight Attendants
They minister, they mollify, they bring us blankets.
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Chris McGrath / Getty Total Landscaping: A Masque
A poem for Sunday
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Tim Lahan An Ode to Agony Aunts
Taking pleasure in others’ pain as a reader of the advice column
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Illustration by Katie Martin; images from Kean Collection ... Reading Thomas Jefferson’s Bible
The president preferred Jesus’s teachings to his supernatural acts—and edited his copy of the New Testament accordingly.
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Neil Zlozower / Atlas Icons The Mad Genius of Eddie Van Halen
He boiled strings, cut vibrato bars in half, put the head of one guitar on the body of another—and created a sound that changed rock forever.
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David Redfern How Jimi Hendrix’s London Years Changed Music
A new book retells the artist’s fairy tale—rising out of deprivation to storm the spires of rock and roll—by considering his influence on the U.K.
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Tim Lahan An Ode to Small Talk
How about this weather?
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Timothy Mulcare Dog Days
A poem for Sunday
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Illustration by Arsh Raziuddin; Fox Searchlight Pictures; Getty The New David Copperfield Movie Might Be Better Than the Book
Armando Iannucci’s adaptation of Dickens’s novel is mad, loving, and brilliant.
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Tim Lahan An Ode to Balloons
Gravity is overrated.
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Michael Ochs Archives / Getty The Funkadelic Album That Predicted the Future
The legendary band could almost blend in with other acts during the counterculture of the ’70s. But today, the group looks like a pure phenomenon.
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Illustration by Oliver Munday; Eamonn McCabe / Popperfoto ... Seamus Heaney’s Journey Into Darkness
In the deepest reaches of history, the poet found a voice for the troubled present.
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David Price / Arsenal FC / Getty My Soccer Fandom Is Out of Shape
A lifelong fan took in yesterday’s Manchester City–Arsenal game, and struggled to connect with his onetime obsession.
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Daniel Savage An Ode to Insomnia
How to find solace in sleeplessness
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Alan Varajas / EyeEm / Getty / The ... The Advice That Most 2020 Commencement Speakers Won’t Give
Here’s the speech that graduates need to hear.
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The Atlantic The 1798 Poem That Was Made for 2020
“The Rime of the Ancient Mariner” is taking on new meaning during the coronavirus pandemic.
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Pavel Popov An Ode to Running in the Movies
What makes Harrison Ford such a great cinematic sprinter, and why does Tom Cruise always pump his arms like that?
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Jillian Freyer Homeless in a City Buffeted by Plague
Boston’s most vulnerable citizens are experiencing a drastic reduction in places to eat, places to sit, places to use the bathroom, places to be safe, places to be.
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A Coronavirus Prayer
James Parker reads a prayer for these trying times.
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