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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
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The Atlantic The Awkward Intimacy of Therapy
The practice may require vulnerability, but being heard can bring healing: Your weekly guide to the best in books
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The Atlantic Life, Literature, This Moment of June
The allure and the friction of city life are never clearer than they are in the summer: Your weekly guide to the best in books
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The Atlantic; Getty Learning How to Grieve in Public
What happens when private loss is widely shared instead of borne alone? Your weekly guide to the best in books
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Gabriela Pesqueira / The Atlantic What a Book Can Do for a Girl
A story that changes how a child sees can, in no small way, change her life: Your weekly guide to the best in books
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Katie Martin / The Atlantic; Getty Motherhood’s Impossible, All-Consuming Demands
Works that meditate on the struggle to maintain an independent sense of self after having children: Your weekly guide to the best in books
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Adam Maida / The Atlantic; Getty The Allure of the Campus Novel
Why schools provide such fertile ground for fiction: Your weekly guide to the best in books
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Katie Martin / The Atlantic; Getty The Messy Line Between Faith and Reason
When we notice the overlap between the divine and the secular, we can see how nuanced human belief is: Your weekly guide to the best in books
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The Atlantic What a Nanny Knows
A nanny—fully immersed in the most intimate details of a family’s life, yet with an outsider’s point of view—can be the perfect protagonist: Your weekly guide to the best in books
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Bettmann / Getty The Inner Lives of Animals
Writers wonder if animals have minds like ours—and how important that question is: Your weekly guide to the best in books
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Getty; The Atlantic Keeping a Diary at the End of the World
The urge to document our lives during crisis is widely shared among writers: Your weekly guide to the best in books
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Sam Hodgson / The New York Times / … The Books Briefing: The Fight Over What Kids Can Read
Bans and attempted bans of critical race theory and the 1619 Project in classrooms are part of a familiar pattern: Your weekly guide to the best in books
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Getty ; The Atlantic Lying Is Its Own Form of Storytelling
In literature, nothing is as fascinating or destabilizing as deception: Your weekly guide to the best in books
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Getty; The Atlantic The Tricky Task of Writing a Villain
Whether in fiction or in journalism, telling stories about bad guys isn’t clear-cut: Your weekly guide to the best in books
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The Atlantic Literature Isn’t Bound by the Rules of Time
In poetry and in prose, past and present can warp, twist, and buckle: Your weekly guide to the best in books
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Getty; The Atlantic The Fight for Our Attention
We may live in an endlessly distracted world, but where we focus our gaze still matters: Your weekly guide to the best in books
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The Atlantic When the Setting Is the Story
Writers take on the challenge of transporting readers to a place using only words: Your weekly guide to the best in books
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Getty; The Atlantic Can a Self-Help Book Really Change Your Life?
The genre promises easy fixes for intractable problems, but some conflicts can’t be solved by individuals alone: Your weekly guide to the best in books
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Getty; The Atlantic Cookbooks Are About More Than Just Food Now
The new ethos of recipe collections elevates them beyond how-to manuals: Your weekly guide to the best in books
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