Early December in Croton-on-Hudson
A poem by Louise Glück, published in The Atlantic in 1967
The Books Briefing: How Horror Stories Empower Kids
Gruesome novels and chilling tales about ghoulish monsters and other dangers: Your weekly guide to the best in books
How a Great Crime Writer Came to Imitate Himself
Over the past decade, John Banville has frankly apprenticed himself to the masters, including Henry James and Raymond Chandler. With his new novel, he’s come full circle.
Blursday Blues
A poem for Sunday
The Books Briefing: Can Democracy Survive Without Journalism?
Journalism faces existential challenges in a polarized society and the digital age: Your weekly guide to the best in books
Beyond the Myth of Malcolm X
Understanding the humanity, and the communities, that shaped the brilliant, troubled, selfish, generous, sincere radical
How to Get Rich By Losing Lots of Money
Adam Neumann is out of his WeWork job, but entrepreneurs will surely imitate him.
The Surprising Value of a Wandering Mind
In a time of Zoom lectures and distracted students, a new book champions an underappreciated state of being.
Reading Thomas Jefferson’s Bible
The president preferred Jesus’s teachings to his supernatural acts—and edited his copy of the New Testament accordingly.
The Many Beginnings of Louise Glück
The American poet, who was awarded this year’s Nobel Prize in Literature, examines our compulsion to tell the same stories, again and again.
The Books Briefing: The Writers Whom History Forgot
Beloved but overlooked works from the past provide a rich source of reading material: Your weekly guide to the best in books
Why We’re Afraid of Bats
On how we know—and how we learn—what to fear
Praying on a 707
A poem by Anne Sexton, published in The Atlantic in 1972
The Books Briefing: British Invasion
Sex, drugs, and rock and roll: Your weekly guide to the best in books
Nicole Krauss on Seeing Manhood Through a Woman’s Eyes
“A resistance to reduction has guided me in the kind of characters I’m drawn to inhabit.”
To Be a Man
A short story
Distance
A poem for Sunday
The Books Briefing: The Lives Behind the Legal Decisions
What Ruth Bader Ginsburg’s fandom knew: Your weekly guide to the best in books
The Inside Story of the Mueller Probe’s Mistakes
In a new book, Andrew Weissmann, one of Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s top deputies, lays out the limits and letdowns of the years-long Russia investigation.
Brain
A poem by C. K. Williams, published in The Atlantic in 2010