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Illustration by The Atlantic. Source: Getty. Why the Latest Nobel Prize Winner Makes Perfect Sense
László Krasznahorkai is unusually experimental for a Nobel Prize winner, but in an unstable world, his selection feels perfectly timely.
Wenn / Alamy An Analog Solution for Mindful Living
Poetry tracks our most important data—but not with the intention of creating an optimized version of a human.
Illustration by The Atlantic. Source: csa-images / Getty. A Novel About Motherhood, Childhood, and Secrets
Atlantic editor Honor Jones discusses her debut novel, Sleep, and what fiction does that journalism cannot.
Illustration by The Atlantic; Source: Dianne Avery Photography / Getty; photo-lime / Getty When Poets Face Death
Their later works have a peculiar power.
Illustration by The Atlantic. Source: Sylvia Salmi / Bettmann / Getty. When a Friendship Changes Forever
Lauren Groff captures the precise moment when someone realizes their memories are theirs alone.
Illustration by The Atlantic. Source: Emile Ducke. The Nearly Impossible Task of Describing Pain
Garth Greenwell’s latest novel finds the language to capture the ineffable human experience of serious illness.
Illustration by Vivian Dehning The Electric Feeling of Summer Romance
Ruby Opalka’s “Spit,” a new short story in The Atlantic, captures the intensity of young love.
Illustration by The Atlantic. Source: Keerthana Kunnath. How Poetry Can Map Defiance
A conversation with the Diné poet Kinsale Drake about “Making a Monument Valley”
Illustration by The Atlantic. Source: Victor Decolongon / Getty The Two Women Who Wrote as ‘Michael Field’
Their poems about the experience of beauty help explain the choice to write as one person.
Illustration by Matteo Giuseppe Pani. Source: Getty.
