Don’t Just Replace Chavez—Rethink Monuments
It’s time for tributes to leave the great-man theory of history behind.
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Justin Sullivan / Getty A Western That Goes Where Cormac McCarthy Wouldn’t
Álvaro Enrigue’s Now I Surrender scraps the simplistic binary of cowboys and Indians in favor of a wild, multifaceted war story.
Illustration by Allison Zaucha Davis / The Atlantic* Frank Gehry’s Best Work Was Not His Flashiest
If you really want to understand the late architect’s transformative genius, look past the titanium showpieces that made him a household name.
Frank O. Gehry / Getty Research Institute, Los Angeles A New History of the Western Hemisphere
A recent book suggests that Latin American democracy may hold lessons for the current U.S. political moment
Illustration by Akshita Chandra / The Atlantic. Source: Smith Collection / Gado / Getty. The ‘Dark Prophet’ of L.A. Wasn’t Dark Enough
As fires have raged, so have citations of the prescient author Mike Davis. But in a changed world, we need new thinkers too.
Illustration by The Atlantic. Sources: Serge Hoeltschi / 13PHOTO / Redux; Ethan Swope / AP The Domestic Thriller That Shatters Chilean Myths
In Alia Trabucco Zerán’s novel Clean, a housekeeper’s testimony exposes social fissures that have endured after Pinochet.
Illustration by Vivian Dehning The Unbearable Awkwardness of Automation
The machine age is changing the nature of work. In the process, it is also transforming buildings, and making them less hospitable for human use.
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