literature

Ideas

The Monster Publishing Merger Is About Amazon

Franklin Foer

November 25, 2020

Newsletters

The Atlantic Daily: 9 Poems for a Tough Winter

Caroline Mimbs Nyce

November 20, 2020

Books

The Books Briefing: How Literature Helps Us Grieve

Mary Stachyra Lopez

November 20, 2020

Ideas

Obama’s Memoir Is an Exercise in Ironic Realism

George Packer

November 17, 2020

Books

The Many Lives of Adrienne Rich

Stephanie Burt

December 2020 Issue

Books

The Books Briefing: Read to Find Focus, Even During a Pandemic

Kate Cray

November 13, 2020

Ideas

I’m Not Yet Ready to Abandon the Possibility of America

Barack Obama

November 12, 2020

Books

A Dystopian Novel That Challenges Taboos and Refuses Judgment

Stephanie Hayes

November 9, 2020

Books

How I Came to Love My Epic Quarantine Reading Project

Oliver Munday

November 1, 2020

Books

The Books Briefing: When Poets Write Novels

Kate Cray

October 30, 2020

Ideas

Melania’s Plastic Camelot

Caitlin Flanagan

October 29, 2020

Poem

Early December in Croton-on-Hudson

Louise Glück

October 25, 2020

Books

The Books Briefing: How Horror Stories Empower Kids

Kate Cray

October 23, 2020

Books

How a Great Crime Writer Came to Imitate Himself

Paul Franz

October 21, 2020

Culture

An Ode to Agony Aunts

James Parker

November 2020 Issue

Books

The Surprising Value of a Wandering Mind

Lily Meyer

October 13, 2020

Ideas

The Hemingway Story That John McCain Read Aloud to Me

Mark Salter

October 12, 2020

Books

The Many Beginnings of Louise Glück

Walt Hunter

October 10, 2020

Books

The Books Briefing: The Writers Whom History Forgot

Kate Cray

October 9, 2020

Ideas

150 Books Show How the Trump Era Has Warped Our Brains

Carlos Lozada

October 6, 2020

Poem

Praying on a 707

Anne Sexton

October 4, 2020

Books

Nicole Krauss on Seeing Manhood Through a Woman’s Eyes

Thomas Gebremedhin

October 2, 2020

Culture

Gillian Flynn Is Obsessed With Conspiracies

Shirley Li

September 29, 2020

Books

The Books Briefing: The Lives Behind the Legal Decisions

Kate Cray

September 25, 2020

Poem

Brain

C. K. Williams

September 20, 2020

The Friendship Files

When Your Job Turns You Into a Brand, You Need a Friend to Be Human With

Julie Beck

September 18, 2020

Books

Who You’re Reading When You Read Haruki Murakami

Rowan Hisayo Buchanan

September 11, 2020

Books

Caleb Crain on Math, Solitude, and the Nature of Time

Amy Weiss-Meyer

September 9, 2020

Ideas

Hate the Sin, Not the Book

Alan Jacobs

September 6, 2020

Books

The Books Briefing: Imagining Black Futures

Kristine Guillaume

September 4, 2020

On Teaching

Teaching Black Teens to Write the Books They Read

Melinda D. Anderson

September 1, 2020

Books

The Books Briefing: Poetry of the Past, in the Present

Tori Latham

August 28, 2020

Books

Life on the Road Is More Than Inspiration for Your Novel

Connor Goodwin

August 27, 2020

Poem

Late Loving

Mona Van Duyn

August 23, 2020

Books

The Books Briefing: The Legacy of a Political Speech

Kate Cray

August 21, 2020

Books

Yaa Gyasi on the Mysteries of Faith and Reason

Oliver Munday

August 14, 2020

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