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O'Neal L. Abel / Courtesy of W. W. ... Beyond the Myth of Malcolm X
Understanding the humanity, and the communities, that shaped the brilliant, troubled, selfish, generous, sincere radical
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Erik Carter How to Get Rich By Losing Lots of Money
Adam Neumann is out of his WeWork job, but entrepreneurs will surely imitate him.
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Illustration by Katie Martin; images from Kean Collection ... Reading Thomas Jefferson’s Bible
The president preferred Jesus’s teachings to his supernatural acts—and edited his copy of the New Testament accordingly.
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Matt Huynh Why We’re Afraid of Bats
On how we know—and how we learn—what to fear
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David Redfern How Jimi Hendrix’s London Years Changed Music
A new book retells the artist’s fairy tale—rising out of deprivation to storm the spires of rock and roll—by considering his influence on the U.K.
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dpa picture alliance / Alamy / The Atlantic Who You’re Reading When You Read Haruki Murakami
His early translated works, the subject of a fascinating new book, shed light on the business of bringing the best-selling novelist to a global audience.
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Cassi Namoda Marilynne Robinson’s Prodigal Son
Her new novel, Jack, explores the loneliest character in her Gilead series and the legacy of race.
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Tim Enthoven A New Theory of Western Civilization
Could a marriage policy first pursued by the Catholic Church a millennium and a half ago explain what made the industrialized world so powerful—and so peculiar?
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Yael Malka Claudia Rankine’s Quest for Racial Dialogue
Is her focus on the personal out of step with the racial politics of our moment?
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The Atlantic Life on the Road Is More Than Inspiration for Your Novel
Héctor Tobar gives fictional travelogues an intervention with the cheeky, self-aware The Last Great Road Bum.
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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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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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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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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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Marta Monteiro The Dark Soul of the Sunshine State
Why Florida is the way it is
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Rodrigo Corral The Man Who Sacked Rome
Alaric the Goth wanted to be part of the empire. Instead he helped bring it down.
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Karolis Strautniekas J. M. Coetzee’s Unsettling Trilogy About a Possibly Divine Boy
The novelist asks how we recognize the truth when it enters the world.
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Sacrée Frangine Why Birds Do What They Do
The more humans understand about their behavior, the more inaccessible their world seems.
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Getty / The Atlantic A Pandemic Novel That’s Oddly Soothing
Lawrence Wright’s The End of October has been heavily touted for its prescience, but the one thing it didn’t anticipate is heartening.
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