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The Gradual Disappearance of Jane Ashland Casts an Unlikely Spell
Nicolai Houm’s third novel unspools the mystery of a writer who abandons fiction and winds up alone on the top of a mountain in Norway.
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Scisetti Alfio / Shutterstock / The Atlantic Learning From Laura Ingalls Wilder
The author’s popular Little House books sought to challenge the way many Americans saw their country’s history, with deeply mixed results.
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Drawn & Quarterly Coyote Doggirl Gives the Western a Whimsical, Watercolor Spin
A new graphic novel from the artist Lisa Hanawalt (BoJack Horseman) gives an old genre the kind of heroine it’s never seen before.
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Greg Preston / Dark Horse Comics Remembering the Woman Who Changed Marvel Comics
Marie Severin, the trailblazing comic-book artist who drew some of pop culture’s most iconic characters, died Thursday at the age of 89.
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Moolkum / schankz / Shutterstock / Arsh Raziuddin ... Suicide Club Takes On the Tyranny of Wellness
Rachel Heng’s debut novel turns the cultural imperatives of health into commands of a totalitarian state.
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Lucas Jackson / Reuters The Complicated Female Genius of Lauryn Hill
Twenty years after the release of The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill, the artist has been granted something rarely afforded to women: the space to make mistakes—and still be considered great.
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Kristian Buus / Getty Viv Albertine’s Got Something to Say
For her second memoir, the irreverent punk icon mixes a bit of vulnerability with a lot of grit.
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Zolotarevs / Shutterstock Poetry Is Everywhere
Far from “going extinct,” as it was once predicted, poems are viral, vital—and invincible.
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Calle Hesslefors / ullstein bild via Getty Images The Writer Who Makes Perfect Sense of Classical Music
Alfred Brendel’s essays about Beethoven, Schubert, and many others are deeply relevant to performers and amateur listeners alike.
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Courtesy of DC Comics Batman, Catwoman, and the Marriage Plot in Comics
A year-long story arc saw the writer Tom King upending tradition by trying to pursue something novel for two iconic characters: personal growth.
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Jeremy Hudson / Getty Images Americans Have Some Pretty Vanilla Sexual Fantasies
A new book on the science of sexual desire finds Americans are surprisingly romantic and loyal to their partners when they fantasize about sex.
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Marvel Comics / Steve Ditko Steve Ditko’s Ordinary People
The legendary comic-book illustrator and writer, who died in June at the age of 90, infused characters like Spider-Man and Doctor Strange with a revolutionary sort of humanity.
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Ricky Carioti / The Washington Post / Getty Remembering Donald Hall, a Poet of Love and Loss
The writer, who died at 89, invested common words with the power of a constructive, shaping force.
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Jim Cole / AP What Donald Hall Understood About Death
In the pieces he wrote for The Atlantic, the late poet embraced the inevitability of aging and decline.
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Zilu8 / Photo Melon / Shutterstock / Arsh ... The Anguished Comedy of Helen DeWitt
The stories in Some Trick, just the writer’s third book in almost 20 years, spin out weird, unlikely conceits with rigor and glee.
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Doug McLean What J.D. Salinger Understood About Chance Encounters
A.M. Homes on the short-story writer’s “For Esmé—With Love and Squalor,” and the lifelong effects of fleeting interactions
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AP The Glorious, Bizarre History of Soccer and Fashion
Simon Doonan’s new book, Soccer Style, summarizes the long and complicated relationship between athletes and outlandish style.
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Kevin Lamarque / Retuers / The Atlantic Bill Clinton’s Novel Isn't a Thriller—It's a Fantasy
The President Is Missing, co-written with James Patterson, indulges in a familiar trope: the country's top executive as action hero.
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Andres Stapff / Reuters A World Cup Without Eduardo Galeano, Soccer’s Poet Laureate
As the 2018 tournament kicks off, it’s worth revisiting the late Uruguayan writer’s classic book on a sport he approached as both a fan and a social critic.
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Studi8Neosiam / SvetMedvedeva / Shutterstock / Arsh Raziuddin ... Florida, Full of Dread
Lauren Groff’s new collection of short stories is an ecosystem teeming with life, decay, beauty, and fear.
