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Dennis Stockton / Magnum A Love Letter to the ‘Best Mountain Range on Earth’
In his new book, Kim Stanley Robinson grounds himself firmly on Earth and explores the beauty of the High Sierra mountains.
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Photo by Daily Mirror / Mirrorpix / Getty Do Animals Dream?
A new book argues that dreams are a portal to animal consciousness.
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Ahmad Gharabli/AFP/Getty What We Talk About When We Talk About Israel
In a new book, Walter Russell Mead looks at all the ways Americans’ understanding of Israel has been refracted through their own internal conflicts and aspirations.
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The Atlantic Where to Turn When You Feel ‘at Odds With Being Human’
Two recent books find, in the fluidity and endurance of marine life, respite from a world that expects conformity.
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The Atlantic Our First Encounter With T. Rex
A new book looks at the Gilded Age discovery of the prehistoric monster and the money and egos that have driven the search for dinosaur bones ever since.
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Dennis Hopper / Fahey Klein Gallery, Los Angeles They Were Reckless and in Love, and They Were the New Hollywood
A fresh look at the story of Dennis Hopper and Brooke Hayward, whose turbulent lives laid the groundwork for a golden age of film.
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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.
