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Illustration by Joanne Joo The Female-Midlife-Crisis Novel
Miranda July’s new book is full of estrangement, eroticism, and whimsy.
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Lila Barth for The Atlantic How Daniel Radcliffe Outran Harry Potter
He was the world’s most famous child star. Then he had to figure out what came next.
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© 2024 LaToya Ruby Frazier, courtesy of the … Family Ties
LaToya Ruby Frazier’s intimate, intergenerational portraits
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Photo-illustration by The Atlantic. Source: ZUMA Press / … Christine Blasey Ford Testifies Again
Her new memoir doubles as a modern-day horror story.
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Courtesy of “The Lavender Scare” The U.S. Should Apologize to Gay People
For decades, the government led a campaign to erase them from public life. A reckoning is long past due.
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Matt Dunbar / World Surf League / Getty How Men Muscled Women Out of Surfing
Why is the sport still stuck in the 1960s?
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Jamie Hodgson / Getty Is Defying Parents the Only Ethical Alternative?
Instead of rigid rules, educators need the freedom to finesse delicate questions about young students’ gender identity.
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Roy Rochlin / Getty Why the Far Right Is Fixated on Drag Queens
The ACLU’s Chase Strangio draws the connection between the global antidemocratic movement and rising anti-LGBTQ rhetoric and violence in the U.S.
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Netflix A Film That Makes Sex Scenes Look Like Works of Art
Netflix’s Lady Chatterley’s Lover updates the book’s treatment of sex, presenting the act as not just an erotic force, but a miraculous one.
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Getty / The Atlantic The Most Consequential First Amendment Case This Term
303 Creative v. Elenis isn’t about LGBTQ rights, as many people believe it to be, but about what constitutes speech.
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Illustration by Alex Cochran The Pandemic Exposed the Inequality of American Motherhood
Rich and poor women had completely different experiences.
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The Atlantic Harassment in Economics Doesn’t Stay in Economics
When women in the profession face mistreatment, everyone suffers.
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Chicago Daily News / Getty; Schlesinger Library, Harvard … Why Did Gay Rights Take So Long?
A quiet movement that began in the 1920s didn’t disappear—it just went underground.
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Hirz/Archive Photos/Getty; The Atlantic 21 Reader Views on the Masculinity Crisis
“There’s no reason to feel guilty about falling short of an ideal masculinity that has been repeatedly revealed to be less than ideal,” one reader writes.
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Everett Collection; The Atlantic The Unexpected Power of Seeing Yourself as a Villain
If horror-film monsters mirror society’s deepest anxieties, embracing them draws attention to who or what is deemed worthy of fear.
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Hirz / Archive Photos / Getty The Trouble With Boys and Men
Plus: Was post-Soviet optimism for Russia misguided?
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Stringer / Anadolu Agency / Getty ‘I Think the Women Are Winning’
Are protests over Mahsa Amini’s death heralding a new Iranian revolution?
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Amanda Voisard / Reuters What to Teach Young Kids About Gender
Schools should tell children to be themselves. But some districts say too much—and mistake progressive dogma for established fact.
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Danielle Del Plato Redshirt the Boys
Why boys should start school a year later than girls
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Getty; The Atlantic The Last Truly Great Day for Women in American Law
I remember thinking it was exceptional. In retrospect, it’s heartbreaking.
