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Getty; The Atlantic Science Fiction Got Surveillance All Wrong
Government scrutiny isn’t how it appears in 1984. To understand privacy, we’ll need to update our analogies.
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Toronto Star / Getty Why Do We Keep Writing About Life After Death?
The afterlife provides an opportunity to ponder our biggest existential questions: Your weekly guide to the best in books
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The Atlantic How to Get Inside of History
An archive’s collection can reconstruct moments in the past: Your weekly guide to the best in books
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Erik Carter / The Atlantic; Getty One of the Bravest Things a Book Can Do
Writers are uniquely able to uncover—and condemn—a country’s troubles: Your weekly guide to the best in books
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Katie Martin / The Atlantic The Simple Pleasures of Baking
The practice can be a salve for anxiety—or just a cozy way to spend a fall day: Your weekly guide to the best in books
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Katie Martin / The Atlantic All the World’s a Scheme
A juicy ruse can elevate a literary plot: Your weekly guide to the best in books
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Erik Carter / The Atlantic; Getty What Book Bans Take From Kids
Children can prepare for the ups and downs of life by reading about them: Your weekly guide to the best in books
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Erik Carter / The Atlantic; Getty Historical Fiction Turns a Life Into a Story
Our day-to-day doesn’t follow an obvious plot. The arc of the past is visible only in hindsight.
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Johann Heinrich Tischbein dem Älteren; The Atlantic How Writers Revise the World
Why we retell older stories, and what we gain by doing so: Your weekly guide to the best in books
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Katie Martin / The Atlantic; Getty The Boundaries a Romance Novel Can Break
A subversive love story is a great antidote to a stunted imagination: Your weekly guide to the best in books
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The Atlantic What a Biography Really Reveals
Even when a writer and her subject never meet, excavating a life can uncover hidden truths: Your weekly guide to the best in books
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The Atlantic A New Way to Think About Our Filing Systems
How we organize things affects more than just where they are: Your weekly guide to the best in books
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Evening Standard / Hulton Archive / Getty The Incredible Adventures of the Ever-Changing Comic Book
Modern comics and graphic novels have managed to keep our attention by not settling on one format or plot: Your weekly guide to the best in books
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Jean Gaumy/Magnum Modern Men Are Still Figuring Out Fatherhood
What will it take to separate fatherhood from anger and violence? Your weekly guide to the best in books.
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The Atlantic; Getty The Dark Side of Tourism
Vacations usually rest on a fantasy—but there’s a cost to maintaining the illusion: Your weekly guide to the best in books
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Boris Zhitkov / Getty; Joanne Imperio / The … What a Warming Planet Means for Literature
Worrying about climate change is now just part of life on Earth: Your weekly guide to the best in books
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Michael Brennan / Getty; The Atlantic The Ways We Make a Living
Work isn’t everything, but for better or for worse, our lives orbit around it: Your weekly guide to the best in books
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Adam Maida / The Atlantic There’s Nothing Like a Great Takedown
A negative review can be a beautiful thing: Your weekly guide to the best in books
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The Atlantic; Getty Literature for a Post-Roe World
Fiction and poetry can help us grapple with our fears for the future—and remind us what we stand to lose in the present: Your weekly guide to the best in books
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Clarence Gatson / Gado / Getty Empathy Isn’t Enough
The perils and limits of writing with a moral message: Your weekly guide to the best in books
