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Culture

The Most Important Thing Dave Chappelle Ever Did Was Walk Away

Geoff Bennett

April 13, 2026

A photo-illustration featuring Richard Pryor and Dave Chappelle

Books Briefing

The Writers Who Can’t Let Go of the South

Emma Sarappo

April 10, 2026

Books

A Writer of ‘Hypnotic Repetition’

Kaitlyn Tiffany

April 9, 2026

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Books

The Literary Job AI Can’t Replace

Rebecca Ackermann

April 8, 2026

Books

The Feeling of Becoming Less and Less of a Person

Nicholas Dames

May 2026 Issue

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Books Briefing

Unconventional Novels About Conventional People

Boris Kachka

April 3, 2026

Culture

What Tracy Kidder Stood For

Cullen Murphy

April 1, 2026

The author Tracy Kidder at his summer home in Maine, 1993

Books

How Long Can You Live Your Ideals?

Lily Meyer

March 30, 2026

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Ideas

Marc Andreessen’s Mistake

David Brooks

March 29, 2026

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Books Briefing

Let a Book Annoy You

Emma Sarappo

March 27, 2026

Time-Travel Thursdays

A Life of Paying Attention

Rafaela Jinich

March 26, 2026

Trivia

Atlantic Trivia for March 25, 2026: A Little Dickens

Drew Goins

March 25, 2026

Ideas

The Death of Millennial Feminism

Helen Lewis

March 22, 2026

The Atlantic Daily

The Provocation of The Pitt

Josh Tyrangiel

March 22, 2026

A photo of Patrick Ball and Noah Wyle standing in the elevator with medical gloves on

Books Briefing

What Very Different Places Have in Common

Boris Kachka

March 20, 2026

Books

The Seinfeld Theory of Fiction

Lily Meyer

March 19, 2026

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The Writer’s Way

The City Where Coetzee Is God

Gary Shteyngart

April 2026 Issue

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Books

A New Direction for the Trans Novel

Isle McElroy

March 16, 2026

Books

The Last Days of Franco

Colm Tóibín

April 2026 Issue

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Books

Salman Rushdie Doesn’t Want to Be Your ‘Free Speech Barbie’

Andrea Valdez

March 14, 2026

A black and white photo of an two older men with beards talking on a stage.

Books Briefing

How Not to Recommend a Book

Emma Sarappo

March 13, 2026

Books

A Deft Portraitist of Class in America

Lily Meyer

March 13, 2026

Time-Travel Thursdays

Raymond Chandler and the Case of the Split Infinitive

Jake Lundberg

March 12, 2026

Technology

What Was Grammarly Thinking?

Kaitlyn Tiffany

March 12, 2026

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Family

What Atheism Could Not Explain

Luis Parrales

March 12, 2026

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Book Recommendations

Six Books That Simply Must Be Talked About

Rhian Sasseen

March 10, 2026

Two people holding books to their ears like phones

Trivia

Atlantic Trivia for March 9, 2026: Movie Stars and the Middle Ages

Drew Goins

March 9, 2026

Ideas

Andrew Tate Doesn’t Get the Point of Books

Joel Halldorf

March 9, 2026

Poem

Misrule Music

Robert Pinsky

April 2026 Issue

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The Wonder Reader

An Uncomfortable Emotion That’s Worth Feeling

Isabel Fattal

March 7, 2026

Ideas

The Fugitive Slave Who Wrote to the President

Regina E. Mason

March 7, 2026

A collage of William Grimes's book title, alongside illustrations depicting enslaved persons on the underground railroad and a portrait of John Quincy Adams.

Books Briefing

Pushing the Limits of Historical Fiction

Boris Kachka

March 6, 2026

Press Room

The Atlantic Announces Sarah A. Topol and Jenisha Watts as Staff Writers

March 5, 2026

Ideas

Don’t Call It ‘Intelligence’

Charles Yu

March 5, 2026

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Books

A Novel About a Secret No One Wants to Know

Honor Jones

April 2026 Issue

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Sections

The Print Edition

Critics Love It. But Who Wrote It?

The Most Important Thing Dave Chappelle Ever Did Was Walk Away

The Writers Who Can’t Let Go of the South

A Writer of ‘Hypnotic Repetition’

The Literary Job AI Can’t Replace

The Feeling of Becoming Less and Less of a Person

Unconventional Novels About Conventional People

What Tracy Kidder Stood For

How Long Can You Live Your Ideals?

Marc Andreessen’s Mistake

Let a Book Annoy You

A Life of Paying Attention

Atlantic Trivia for March 25, 2026: A Little Dickens

The Death of Millennial Feminism

The Provocation of The Pitt

What Very Different Places Have in Common

The Seinfeld Theory of Fiction

The City Where Coetzee Is God

A New Direction for the Trans Novel

The Last Days of Franco

Salman Rushdie Doesn’t Want to Be Your ‘Free Speech Barbie’

How Not to Recommend a Book

A Deft Portraitist of Class in America

Raymond Chandler and the Case of the Split Infinitive

What Was Grammarly Thinking?

What Atheism Could Not Explain

Six Books That Simply Must Be Talked About

Atlantic Trivia for March 9, 2026: Movie Stars and the Middle Ages

Andrew Tate Doesn’t Get the Point of Books

Misrule Music

An Uncomfortable Emotion That’s Worth Feeling

The Fugitive Slave Who Wrote to the President

Pushing the Limits of Historical Fiction

The Atlantic Announces Sarah A. Topol and Jenisha Watts as Staff Writers

Don’t Call It ‘Intelligence’

A Novel About a Secret No One Wants to Know