
Summer Reading Guide
The Atlantic’s writers and editors have picked books to transport you, surprise you, and inspire you.
The Atlantic’s writers and editors have picked books to transport you, surprise you, and inspire you.
Two recent books find, in the fluidity and endurance of marine life, respite from a world that expects conformity.
A good group biography details with curiosity the ways, trivial and tremendous, that humans influence one another.
A poem for Saturday
A poem consisting of many voices
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And what the AMC black comedy about a British obstetrician illuminates about women’s health
A new anthology about climate change acknowledges that we are both willing participants in and at the mercy of the systems that are destroying us.
A poem for Wednesday
A new book challenges the dominant narrative that malls are dying.
A short story
“There’s no one the fiction writer can hide behind.”
These ostensible paradises have a dark side.
The complexity of the human heart can be expressed in the arrangement of one’s books.
To appreciate the special power of the Ukrainian president, we need to listen closely to his words, and remember the inspiring poets who came before him.
An ex-Soviet state’s national myths—as well as the forces of nationalism, economics, culture, and religion—all pull it away from Moscow. Can Russia really compete?
Abbott Awaits makes the everyday aspects of parenting objects of tender observation.
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A new feminist utopian novel imagines a world without men. The problem is they’re never really gone.
What I’ve learned about Dublin, and myself, in a lifetime of reading Ulysses
Some spectacular titles had the terrible luck of being released in early 2020. They still deserve our attention.