Tori Latham

Tori Latham is a copy editor at The Atlantic.

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Cookbooks Are About More Than Just Food Now

The new ethos of recipe collections elevates them beyond how-to manuals: Your weekly guide to the best in books
- Tori Latham
- February 18, 2022
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Working It Out on the Page

Writers explore exercise and their relationship to it: Your weekly guide to the best in books
- Tori Latham
- January 21, 2022
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The Books Briefing: The Essential Qualities of a Book

The case for and against e-readers: Your weekly guide to the best in books
- Tori Latham
- October 1, 2021
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The Books Briefing: Cultivate a Love of Reading Early On

Educators and parents alike play important roles in developing kids’ appreciation for literature: Your weekly guide to the best in books
- Tori Latham
- August 27, 2021
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The Books Briefing: Finding Place as a Black American

Carving out room for freedom and self-identification: Your weekly guide to the best in books
- Tori Latham
- June 18, 2021
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The Books Briefing: Why the Graphic-Novel Format Can Be Perfect for Memoirists

Illustrated memoirs offer an expansiveness that prose ones sometimes cannot: Your weekly guide to the best in books
- Tori Latham
- May 7, 2021
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The Books Briefing: Foodie Culture Will Change Again

Cookbooks and food memoirs to take you into post-pandemic life: Your weekly guide to the best in books
- Tori Latham
- March 26, 2021
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The Books Briefing: Murder, They Wrote

Crime fiction is having a moment right now: Your weekly guide to the best in books
- Tori Latham
- February 5, 2021
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The Books Briefing: Reimagining Womanhood

Writers who expanded the definitions of femininity: Your weekly guide to the best in books
- Tori Latham
- December 4, 2020
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The Books Briefing: British Invasion

Sex, drugs, and rock and roll: Your weekly guide to the best in books
- Tori Latham
- October 2, 2020
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The Books Briefing: Poetry of the Past, in the Present

Finding relevance in archival poetry: Your weekly guide to the best in books
- Tori Latham
- August 28, 2020
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The Books Briefing: And the Winner Is

On this year’s Booker Prize nominees, and winners from recent years: Your weekly guide to the best in books
- Tori Latham
- July 31, 2020
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The Books Briefing: The Possibilities and Limits of Freedom

Juneteenth and emancipation in America: Your weekly guide to the best in books
- Tori Latham
- June 18, 2020
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The Books Briefing: Reassessing the Back-to-School Reading List

Required reading, updated: Your weekly guide to the best in books
- Tori Latham
- August 23, 2019
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The Scheduling Woes of Adult Friendship

To avoid the dreaded back-and-forth of coordinating hangouts, some friends are repurposing the shared digital calendar, a workplace staple, to plan their personal lives.
- Tori Latham
- July 23, 2019
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The Books Briefing: There’s No One Right Way to Be a Mother

Your weekly guide to the best in books
- Tori Latham
- May 3, 2019
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What Kate Spade Meant for Women

The designer, who died at 55, built up a female-led lifestyle brand that held an accessible appeal across generations.
- Tori Latham
- June 5, 2018
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The Atlantic Daily: Rex Tillerson’s Ouster, Nazi-Looted Art, Stories of Modern-Day Slavery

And more
- Tori Latham
- March 13, 2018
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The Epistolary Heart of
An American Marriage

Tayari Jones’s latest novel uses intimate methods of storytelling to depict the dissolution of a relationship.
- Tori Latham
- March 7, 2018
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Your 2018 Oscars Crash Course

A roundup of all our best stories to get up to speed for the 90th Academy Awards
- Tori Latham
- March 2, 2018

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