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Adam Maida / The Atlantic ‘I’ve Seen Several Giants Die on My Land’
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.
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Mark Erickson / Getty The Most American Form of Architecture Isn’t Going Anywhere
A new book challenges the dominant narrative that malls are dying.
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María Jesús Contreras Beware the Luxury Beach Resort
These ostensible paradises have a dark side.
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Katie Martin / The Atlantic; Getty The Book That Captures My Life as a Dad
Abbott Awaits makes the everyday aspects of parenting objects of tender observation.
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Oliver Munday The Book That Never Stops Changing
What I’ve learned about Dublin, and myself, in a lifetime of reading Ulysses
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Jamiel Law White Author, Black Paragons
When writing across cultural divides flattens characters
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Pablo Delcan and Río Delcan La Rocca Why Is Dad So Mad?
A father dares to explore his rage.
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Najeebah Al-Ghadban Trauma Is Everywhere. Write About It Anyway.
Melissa Febos’s recent essay collection shows us not only how to capture the difficult, intimate details of our lives in writing, but why we should.
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The Atlantic; FPG Archive Photos / Bettmann / … The Ideology of the Bicycle
Jody Rosen’s new history of our two-wheeled machines proves that they might be the one thing we all have in common.
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Mathieu Bourel We Tell Ourselves Stories About Money to Live
Hernan Diaz’s new novel audaciously tells a tale of American capital—again, and again, and again.
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Patrick Zachmann / Magnum The Book That Said the Words I Couldn’t Say
As a teen, I didn’t always know how to express myself. A now-forgotten novel helped me find my voice.
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Nadav Kander / Trunk Archive The Defiant Strangeness of Werner Herzog
The director brings his signature theme—adventurers who share his quixotic compulsions—to his debut novel.
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Adam Maida / The Atlantic The Imprisoned Egyptian Activist Who Never Stopped Campaigning for His Country’s Future
Alaa Abd el-Fattah’s writings reveal where the revolution lost steam, and how to rebuild its momentum.
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Getty; The Atlantic The Calamity of Unwanted Motherhood
Penelope Mortimer’s 64-year-old novel is a powerful argument for letting women choose when and whether they become a parent.
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Pamela Guest Tracy Flick vs. Toxic Masculinity
Tom Perrotta reassesses his ’90s antihero.
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Natalya Balnova How Primate Research Was Hijacked by Sexist Ideologues
The shared history of apes and humans has long been put to political use.
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Hulton / Greg White / Fairfax Media / … The Pandemic Reminded Us That Most Women Still Don’t Have a Room of Their Own
The past two years have shown us that we need to open our eyes to the biases built into our homes.
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Photograph by Russ Marshall The Deep Roots of Sexual Policing in America
A new book explores the way anti-loitering laws targeted Black women.
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Dadu Shin Sex for Art’s Sake
Elif Batuman’s curious experiment in fiction
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Richard Vergez The Parasitic Workplace
Two recent novels depict modern labor as a hallucinogenic hall of mirrors.
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