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July 19, 2021

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The Books Briefing: What the Best Travel Writing Can Do

July 16, 2021

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The Rise of Must-Read TV

Alexander Manshel, Laura B. McGrath, and J. D. Porter

July 16, 2021

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Two Editors Who Showed What Publishing Should Be

July 15, 2021

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The Books Briefing: The Best Books to Get Lost in This Summer

The Atlantic Culture Desk

July 9, 2021

Democracies Don’t Try to Make Everyone Agree

June 28, 2021

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Letter From Prague 1968-1978

Carolyn Forché

June 27, 2021

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The Soft Radicalism of Erotic Fiction

June 26, 2021

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The Books Briefing: What Literary Letters Reveal

Mary Stachyra Lopez

June 25, 2021

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Janet Malcolm the Magician

David A. Graham

June 20, 2021

Edgar Allan Poe’s Other Obsession

July/August 2021 Issue

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The Books Briefing: Works That Chart New Queer Narratives

June 4, 2021

The Conservative Publishing Industry Has a Joe Biden Problem

June 2, 2021

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Homeroom: Why Kids Need Summer-Reading Assignments

Abby Freireich and Brian Platzer

June 1, 2021

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The Atlantic Daily: 8 Buzzy Books to Add to Your Summer Reading List

Caroline Mimbs Nyce

May 28, 2021

The Books Briefing: What to Read This Summer

The Atlantic Culture Desk

May 28, 2021

Dan Frank Was a Gifted and Generous Editor

May 25, 2021

The Books Briefing: The Wellness Dystopia

May 21, 2021

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The Literary-Abuser Trope Is Everywhere

May 20, 2021

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The Books Briefing: Why the Graphic-Novel Format Can Be Perfect for Memoirists

May 7, 2021

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The Bleak Prescience of Richard Wright

June 2021 Issue

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Why the Other Philip Roth Bio Never Took Off

May 5, 2021

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Women Refusing to Be Like Other Women

June 2021 Issue

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On Rape Narratives and the Surprising Value of Plot

May 2, 2021

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I Tried to Be a Communist

August 1944 Issue

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The Books Briefing: How to Be Happy

Mary Stachyra Lopez

April 30, 2021

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If the Author Is a Bad Person, Does That Change Anything?

Judith Shulevitz

April 27, 2021

A collage of Blake Bailey and Philip Roth

The Books Briefing: The New Literature of Burnout

April 23, 2021

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The Commons

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The Books Briefing: The New Legacy of America’s Wilderness

April 16, 2021

The Atlantic Daily: 7 Poems to Read This Spring

Caroline Mimbs Nyce

April 9, 2021

Written in Pencil in the Sealed Railway-Car

April 8, 2021

9 Pieces of Advice to Help You See Relationships More Clearly

Rebecca J. Rosen

April 5, 2021

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The Books Briefing: Beverly Cleary Saw Kids as They Are

April 2, 2021

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‘Eliminate Every Superfluous Word’

April 2, 2021

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The Unending Assaults on Girlhood

March 30, 2021

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