September 2022

In This Issue
Explore the September 2022 print edition below. Or to discover more writing from the pages of The Atlantic, browse the full archive.
Articles
An American Catastrophe
The secret history of the U.S. government’s family-separation policy
I Smuggled My Laptop Past the Taliban So I Could Write This Story
My escape from Afghanistan
Rez Life
Sterlin Harjo’s genre-mixing, cliché-exploding series captures coming of age as a Native kid like no TV show before it.
The Wedding Present
As a young woman, I had a friendly correspondence with a German soldier right after World War II. I’ve been thinking about the silence at the core of our exchange ever since.
That’s It. You’re Dead to Me.
Suddenly everyone is “toxic.”
Why Do Rich People Love Quiet?
The sound of gentrification is silence.
Is She a Fluke? A Token? A Trailblazer?
When women enter the frame
A World Without White People
Mohsin Hamid’s empty parable of race transformation
‘The Greatest Talker of His Time’
Felix Frankfurter was an eloquent liberal champion of judicial restraint. Is it time for a reappraisal?
Don’t Call Them Trash
Romance novels celebrate female pleasure and aspiration.
An Ode to Being in a Band
I can’t believe how good we sound.
Hotel Earth
