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Miki Lowe Venus of Willendorf
A poem by Yusef Komunyakaa, published in The Atlantic in 1998
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Bettmann / Getty What to Do About William Faulkner
A white man of the Jim Crow South, he couldn’t escape the burden of race, yet derived creative force from it.
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Simone Noronha Elena Ferrante’s Master Class on Deceit
Her latest novel frames lying as a creative act.
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The Atlantic The Books Briefing: The Writers Who Don’t Work Alone
Writing is sometimes seen as a solitary pursuit, but co-authors, editors, and friends enrich the process: Your weekly guide to the best in books
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Arsh Raziuddin / The Atlantic How to Write an Imperfect Black Woman
In her debut novel, Luster, Raven Leilani tries to liberate her protagonist from any inherent virtuousness or exceptionalism.
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Drawn & Quarterly The Groundbreaking Female Artist Who Shaped Manga History
A new collection introduces English-speaking audiences to an overlooked Japanese cartoonist who smashed both gender and genre norms during her short life.
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The Atlantic One Legacy of the Pandemic May Be Less Judgment of the Child-Free
The coronavirus could change lingering cultural assumptions about what makes for a full and happy life.
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Johnalynn Holland The Best American Novelist Whose Name You May Not Know
When her first novels were published, in the mid-1970s, Gayl Jones’s talent was hailed by writers from James Baldwin to John Updike. Then she disappeared.
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Natasha Trethewey / Katie Martin / The Atlantic How Poetry Can Guide Us Through Trauma
A former U.S. poet laureate’s new memoir reflects on the power of storytelling to help us grieve—and offers lessons for surviving the cataclysms of the present.
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Putnam / Graywolf / Anchor / The Atlantic 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
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H. Armstrong Roberts / Getty / The Atlantic Will White People Forget About George Floyd?
A parable embedded in The Maltese Falcon offers a cautionary tale.
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Illustration by Celina Pereira; BStU; Ulrich Hässler / ... A KGB Man to the End
The origins of Putin’s worldview—and the rise of Russia’s new ruling class
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Miki Lowe Winter’s Tale
A poem by Maxine Kumin, published in The Atlantic in 2009
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Doug Mills / The New York Times / ... The Books Briefing: What Is a Political Memoir For?
What we can learn from books by politicians and their family members: Your weekly guide to the best in books
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Getty / The Atlantic The Literature of the Pandemic Is Already Here
For those engaging in quick-response art, mess and chaos—not polished elegance—are the forms to best mimic a crisis that has no end in sight.
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Bruce Davidson / Magnum All My Mothers
A poem for Sunday
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VCG WILSON / CORBIS / GETTY The Books Briefing: What to Read If You’re Looking for Something to Read
An omnibus reading list, from classic novels to poems to short stories: Your weekly guide to the best in books
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The Atlantic Marisa Silver on the Tangled Nature of Memory
“We are never living just in the present. We’re constantly sourcing back to the past or thinking about what comes next.”
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Oliver Munday / The Atlantic The Memory Wing
A short story
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Shutterstock / The Atlantic How Americans Became Part of the Trump Family
The president’s dark emotional inheritance has become the nation’s.
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