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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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Dave Pickoff / AP / Bettmann / Getty … The Famous Baldwin-Buckley Debate Still Matters Today
In 1965, two American titans faced off on the subject of the country’s racial divides. Nearly 55 years later, the event has lost none of its relevance, as a recent book attests.
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Arsh Raziuddin / The Atlantic Why Everyone Should Sleep Alone
On the virtues of splitting up for the night
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Everett Collection Why Singin’ in the Rain Is an Almost Perfect Musical
The 1952 film exemplifies the key elements of a beloved Hollywood genre.
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Celina Pereira Jefferson’s Doomed Educational Experiment
The University of Virginia was supposed to transform a slave-owning generation, but it failed.
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Photography Tristan Brazier / Getty The Ongoing Horror of #MeToo
She Said, Catch and Kill, and other new books tell stories of monsters brought to account. But their defining mood is not exultation—it’s terror.
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Celeste Sloman / The New York Times / … Debbie Harry Stares Back
The Blondie singer’s memoir, Face It, wryly recounts making the most of being ogled.
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Adam Shemper / skye studios / Unsplash / … How to Write the Book No One Wants You to Write
Sarah M. Broom’s The Yellow House is a feat—a memoir and historical narrative created amid governmental bureaucracy and resistance from some of her subjects.
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AP / Andrew Harnik Nature Writing That Sees Possibility in Climate Change
A pair of authors tries to maintain optimism about the world’s changing landscapes—but at what cost?
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Jonathan Ernst / Reuters How Brett Kavanaugh Got the Last Laugh
Far beyond the news it breaks, The Education of Brett Kavanaugh is a grim reminder: Many Americans still doubt the seriousness of sexual-misconduct allegations.
