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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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Star Tribune / Getty Margaret Atwood Bears Witness
Over the course of her writing career, she has explored the power and limits of personal testimony in times of crisis.
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Illustration: Arsh Raziuddin; LIbrary of Congress / Getty Thomas Edison’s Greatest Invention
It wasn’t the light bulb or the phonograph or the moving picture—or anything tangible. It was a way of thinking about technology.
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Chloe Cushman Ways of Being
Three new books explore the variety of transgender experiences.
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Alexei Vella Boy, Uninterrupted
Ben Lerner, portraitist of talkative men, explores the roots of white male rage.
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Illustration by Paul Spella; Agence Opale / Alamy; ... The Loser-Spy Novelist for Our Times
Mick Herron writes about the broken spies sworn to protect today’s broken England.
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Eleni Kalorkoti The Secret Power of Menopause
Why the end of fertility doesn’t mark the start of decline—and may even help explain our success as a species.
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Riverhead Where Goodness Thrives
A small area in France has a long history of extraordinary kindness to strangers.
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Alexandra Bowman Edna O’Brien’s Lonely Girls
The setting of her new novel is terror-ridden Nigeria, a world away from her native Ireland, but the psychic territory is familiar.
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Oliver Munday; Museo Nacional de Arte And Then Job Said Unto the Lord: You Can’t Be Serious
In a new translation of the Book of Job, the famously repentant hero gives God a piece of his mind.
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Tyler Comrie How Economists’ Faith in Markets Broke America
And what it means for our future
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Illustration: Paul Spella; Diana Walker / The Life ... Deconstructing Clarence Thomas
The justice’s reactionary legal philosophy rests on faith in the power of adversity to fuel black progress.
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Graywolf Girl, Haunted
A drowning haunts Susan Steinberg’s dark first novel about teenagers’ summer adventures.
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Illustration: Emily Haasch; Library of Congress The Students of Sex and Culture
Margaret Mead, Ruth Benedict, and Zora Neale Hurston—spurred on by Franz Boas—revolutionized the way we think about humanity.
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Oliver Munday The Unbearable Smugness of Walking
Glorified for its creative benefits, the pastime has become yet another goal-driven pursuit.
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Katie Martin ‘A Work of Art Designed by the Devil’
Dispatched by Life magazine to cover the Apollo 11 mission, Norman Mailer saw the lunar landing not as a triumph for mankind but as evidence of our hubris.
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Golden Cosmos The New Science of Building Baseball Superstars
“Sabermetrics” changed the national pastime. Now another technological revolution is transforming the game, for good or ill.
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Hokyoung Kim What Lies Beneath
Burrow far below the planet’s surface, and even there, humanity has left its imprint.
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Oliver Munday Doublethink Is Stronger Than Orwell Imagined
What 1984 means today
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Owen Freeman Female Spies and Their Secrets
An old-boy operation was transformed by women during World War II, and at last the unsung upstarts are getting their due.
