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Hulton Archive / Getty; Imagno / Getty; Lambert … For Women, Is Exercise Power?
In Let’s Get Physical, Danielle Friedman traces the fascinating, loaded history of female fitness.
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Illustration by Soomyeong Kim Fiction Meets Chaos Theory
Hanya Yanagihara’s new novel tweaks American history and traces the disorienting consequences.
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Illustration by Paul Spella. Sources: Chris Hellier / … Rewriting the Book of Genesis
Cast into political exile, and into darkness by his failing eyesight, John Milton was determined to accomplish “things unattempted yet in prose or rhyme.”
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John R. Hamilton / Trunk Archive The Impossible Politics of Johnny Cash
He was beloved by Americans who could agree on little else. Was he too eager to please?
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T. L. Litt Let the Record Show Is an Essential Story of the AIDS Movement
Sarah Schulman’s outstanding book is an exemplary model for creating a more complete history of a political movement.
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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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Vedran Štimac Emerson Didn’t Practice the Self-Reliance He Preached
How Transcendentalism, the American philosophy that championed the individual, caught on in tight-knit Concord, Massachusetts
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Dani Choi Animals of the Future
Lizards’ feet are morphing, squid are shrinking, rats’ teeth are getting shorter. What’s in store for us?
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Illustration by Gabriela Pesqueira. Source: Universal History Archive … Why Did Dostoyevsky Write Crime and Punishment?
He had no choice.
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Illustration by Rodrigo Corral. Sources: Hugh Sitton / … Human History Gets a Rewrite
A brilliant new account upends bedrock assumptions about 30,000 years of change.
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Kelsey Dake Spotify Has Made All Music Into Background Music
Is the collapse of genre boundaries and the erosion of fervent musical loyalties a good thing?
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Illustration by Marisa Maestre. Sources: Jillian Edelstein / … W. G. Sebald Ransacked Jewish Lives for His Fictions
Why did he lie about his sources?
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Illustration by Paul Spella; source images: Roman Nerud … Jonathan Franzen’s Best Book Yet
At last he’s put aside the pyrotechnics and gone all in on his great theme: the American family.
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Illustration by Alex Merto; source: John Lamparski / … Peter Thiel Hates a Copycat
The billionaire’s extreme contrarianism is the secret to his success.
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Matt Williams What Is Crime in a Country Built on It?
How Colson Whitehead subverts genre conventions in his new book
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Illustration by Vartika Sharma; Source: Alberto Rizzo / … The Problem With Being Cool About Sex
Half a century after the sexual revolution, a new generation of feminists understands that we still haven’t reconciled what we should want with what we do want.
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Martin Parr / Magnum The Political Novel Gets Very, Very Specific
A sprawling new book set in the Obama era inquires into the value of public life.
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Laura Peretti Sally Rooney Addresses Her Critics
The Irish writer has been accused of being overly sentimental and insufficiently political. In her new novel, she makes the case for her approach to fiction.
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Illustration by Katie Martin; image by Heritage Images … Joseph Campbell’s Woman Problem
In the writer’s classic study of world myths, women were in the background. A new book aims to change that.
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Getty; The Atlantic Welcome to the Afterparty of the American Dream
Anthony Veasna So’s electric story collection sketches a world where the lights are dimmer, the truths blurrier, the hangover incoming.
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