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Paul Spella / The Atlantic; Getty The Rotten Core of Our Political System
In their new account of the 2020 election, two New York Times reporters reveal just how broken American democracy has become.
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Nick Polanszky / Alamy What It Would Take to See the World Completely Differently
The marine biologist Rachel Carson saw immense value in helping the public cultivate a sense of wonder.
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Mario De Biasi / Mondadori / Getty; The … The Arrested Development of Geoff Dyer
In The Last Days of Roger Federer, Geoff Dyer writes about what happens when creative geniuses age—but he might need to do some maturing himself.
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Tejumola Butler Adenuga The America That Killed George Floyd
In a new biography of the man whose murder sparked massive protests, two reporters tell a longer story of institutional racism.
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Getty; The Atlantic On Trying to Create Art When the Baby’s Crying
A new book explores several major “mother-artists” of the mid-to-late-20th century, and how they managed to be both.
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Getty; The Atlantic Why We Should Read Hannah Arendt Now
The Origins of Totalitarianism has much to say about a world of rising authoritarianism.
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The Atlantic The Pleasures That Lurk in the Back of the Book
The index has a fascinating history and holds a special place for one obsessive who sees it as a sort of conceptual map.
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Monica Almeida / The New York Times / … ‘I Am a Writer Because of bell hooks’
When the revolutionary intellectual found her voice, she helped a generation of Black Kentucky women writers find theirs too.
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Carlos Bernate / Bloomberg / Getty; The Atlantic The Perils of the Springsteen-Obama Echo Chamber
Can a serious and heartfelt dialogue between two famous friends heal our national wounds?
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Daniel Mihailescu; Siro Rodenas Cortes; Stefanie Keenan; Marvin … We Choose Our Cults Every Day
Cultish, a new book by the linguist Amanda Montell, reveals how insidery language informs the communities of modern life.
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Bettmann / Getty; Tom Kelley Archive / Getty; … The Logic of the Filing Cabinet Is Everywhere
A captivating new history helps us see the humble appliance’s sweeping influence on modern life.
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Gregg Segal Swimming in the Wild Will Change You
One man’s journey through public waterways—whether sparkling or dirty or algae-filled—challenges us to look differently at the commons.
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Alec Soth / Magnum The True Costs and Benefits of Fracking
New York is getting more out of the domestic oil boom than North Dakota ever will.
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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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James Baldwin Was Right All Along
The writer and activist has the painful, powerful words for this political moment. America just needs to heed them.
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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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Princeton University Library The Secret Cruelty of T. S. Eliot
Before she died, Emily Hale donated love letters she had received from the author while his wife was ill. Now public, the writings reveal his quiet duplicity.
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Radio Times A Book That Honors a Complicated Figure
A recent work by the late critic Clive James about his literary idol, Philip Larkin, artfully examines the complex poet’s canon.
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Mario Anzuoni / Reuters Diving Into Pop Music’s Hidden Depths
A new book, from the hosts of the Switched on Pop podcast, approaches the genre with laserlike focus and palpable enthusiasm.
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Jane Bown / Camera Press / Redux The Conundrum of Lucian Freud’s Portraits
How to assess an artist who was ruthless—and revealing—in work and life
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