Stephanie Hayes
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Tyler Comrie / The Atlantic A Novel That Will Make You Laugh and Then Punch You in the Gut
Kevin Wilson’s Now Is Not the Time to Panic features narrators haunted, yet not bound, by troubled pasts.
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The Atlantic Moving Back Home Isn’t Just a Fallback Plan
In her inventive new memoir, Rebecca Mead shows that returning to your homeland can be as daring as leaving.
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Illustration by Oliver Munday. Sources: Miljan Živković / … The Martial Art I Can’t Live Without
Brazilian jiu-jitsu has been compared to chess, philosophy, even psychoanalysis. But its real appeal is on the mat.
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Getty / The Atlantic A Dystopian Novel That Challenges Taboos and Refuses Judgment
In Earthlings, Sayaka Murata incubates ideas that strain the bounds of realism.
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Jake Belcher Ottessa Moshfegh’s Riveting Meta-Mysteries
In her third novel, the writer again explores women’s quests for control over their own stories.
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David Goddard Such a Fun Age Satirizes the White Pursuit of Wokeness
Kiley Reid’s debut novel is a funny, fast-paced, empathetic examination of privilege in America.
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Alexander Wells The Viral Video Star Behind the Fitness Fad That May Replace CrossFit
Ido Portal teaches famous athletes how to use their bodies in entirely new ways. But is it all snake oil?
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Peter Nicholls Anne Garréta’s Very Different Sort of Confessional Writing
The experimental novelist’s newly translated work tackles assumptions about the genre—with surprising results.
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Michelle Kondrich / The Atlantic The Unfit President
Unlike George W. Bush and Barack Obama before him, Trump doesn’t seem to care about working out or eating healthy.
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James Walton Do People Need Small Talk to Be Happy?
In one study, college students who had substantive conversations were more content than their peers who exchanged mere pleasantries. But don’t write off chitchat just yet.
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James Walton The Science of Beer Goggles
Alcohol makes people impulsive, vain, and uncharitable—and it just might help them maintain committed relationships.
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Studio Photography / Corbis The Kidcasts Are Coming
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Deep Velllum The Challenge of Genderless Characters
What a 30-year-old novel reveals about hidden biases
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Studio Photography / Corbis Where Are All the Kidcasts?
Kids learn from podcasts, so why aren’t adults making more for them?
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Frederick Douglass in The Atlantic
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Marco Goran A Strategic Guide to Swearing
The professional benefits of using curse words
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Jenny Westerhoff Man Booker Shortlist 2015: Hanya Yanagihara's A Little Life
Reviewing the first of the six books on the literary prize’s shortlist.
