Jennifer Senior
Before joining The Atlantic in 2021, she spent five years at The New York Times, first as a daily book critic and then as an op-ed columnist; before that, she spent 18 years at New York magazine, writing profiles and cover stories about politics, social science, and mental health. Her long-form journalism has earned her two Front Page awards, a GLAAD Media Award, and appearances in both The Best American Political Writing and The Best American Nature and Science Writing. She is also the author of On Grief: Love, Loss, Memory and All Joy and No Fun: The Paradox of Modern Parenthood, which spent eight weeks on the New York Times best-seller list; has been translated into 12 languages; and was named one of Slate’s top 10 books of 2014.
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Illustration by Klaus Kremmerz The Puzzling Gap Between How Old You Are and How Old You Think You Are
There are good reasons you always feel 20 percent younger than your actual age.
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Patrick Semansky / AP John Fetterman and the Performance of Wellness
The particular challenge of enduring depression as a public figure
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The Atlantic; Getty What Not to Ask Me About My Long COVID
A brief guide
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Chris Buck for The Atlantic American Rasputin
Steve Bannon is still scheming. And he’s still a threat to democracy.
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Rosdiana Ciaravolo / Getty; Heritage Images / Getty; … Margaret Atwood on Envy and Friendship in Old Age
The author of The Handmaid’s Tale read my story about losing friends in midlife. She had some thoughts.
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Oliver Munday It’s Your Friends Who Break Your Heart
The older we get, the more we need our friends—and the harder it is to keep them.
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Jewel Samad / AFP / Getty The One Decision Breyer Can’t Make
Why it’s so hard to convince a justice to retire.
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Danna Singer for The Atlantic What Bobby McIlvaine Left Behind
Grief, conspiracy theories, and one family’s search for meaning in the two decades since 9/11
