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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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Mandel Ngan/Brendan Smialowski/Getty A Taxonomy of Donald Trump’s Facial Expressions
The outgoing president’s journey from reality television to the Oval Office is evident in every smile and every scowl.
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Brendan Smialowski / AFP / Getty / The ... Epitaph on a Tyrant (Sort Of)
A poem for the end of Donald Trump’s presidency
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Weegee / International Center of Photography / Getty What Drives Writers to Drink?
Seeking in the eloquent benders of Dylan Thomas and Herman Mankiewicz an answer to an ancient riddle
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Tim Lahan An Ode to Naps
Go ahead, take one.
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Charlie Maignan The 16 Best Albums of 2020
A selection of the most illuminating music to come out of a dark year, handpicked by our staffers
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AF archive / Alamy The Singular Achievement of Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy
No spy novel has captured England—or the human capacity for duplicity—like John le Carré’s hunt for the mole.
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Illustration by Paul Spella; Images from Basso Cannarsa ... Martin Amis Goes Out With a Bang
In Inside Story, his final novel, the comic master delights, infuriates, and secures his legacy.
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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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