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Na Kim Kazuo Ishiguro’s Radiant Robot
His new novel tells an unsettling story of love between a machine and the girl she belongs to.
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Vanessa Saba; Rene Johnston; Chris Williamson; Getty What Happened to Jordan Peterson?
Adored guru and reviled provocateur, he dropped out of sight. Now the irresistible ordeal of modern cultural celebrity has brought him back.
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Scott Gelber Extremely Online and Wildly Out of Control
Patricia Lockwood’s debut novel explores the mind, and heart, of an internet-addled protagonist.
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Illustration by Ryan Haskins; images from GraphicaArtis / ... Amazon Has Transformed the Geography of Wealth and Power
Understanding America in the giant company’s shadow
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Ian Berry / Magnum Tom Stoppard’s Double Life
For Britain’s leading postwar playwright, virtuosity and uncertainty go hand in hand.
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MICHELLE MISHINA KUNZ / New York Times / ... A Novel That Captures the Allure of the Scam
Chang-rae Lee’s My Year Abroad is a sprawling study of consumption—and how far people are willing to go to satisfy their hunger.
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Illustration by Valerie Chiang; images from Hulton Archive ... The Real Legacy of the Suffrage Movement
The cause produced undaunted trailblazers, Black and white, who continued to pursue social reform.
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Li Zhensheng / Contact Press Images Uncovering the Cultural Revolution’s Awful Truths
Rebel historians chronicle a past that the Chinese Communist Party grows ever more intent on erasing.
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Seb Agresti How Civilization Broke Our Brains
What can hunter-gatherer societies teach us about work, time, and happiness?
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Illustration by Paul Spella; Images from Basso Cannarsa ... Martin Amis Goes Out With a Bang
In Inside Story, his final novel, the comic master delights, infuriates, and secures his legacy.
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Dorothea Lange Whitewashing the Great Depression
How the preeminent photographic record of the period excluded people of color from the nation’s self-image
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Illustration by Celina Pereira; photographs by Bettmann; Richard ... The Many Lives of Adrienne Rich
Praised by W. H. Auden as neat and modest, she vowed to be passionate and radical instead.
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Vahram Muradyan Teaching Should Be Political
How to talk about race in the classroom
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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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