literature

Books

A Novelist Who Looks Into the Dark

Adam Begley

March 2025 Issue

Books

Hanif Kureishi’s Relentlessly Revealing Memoir

Hillary Kelly

March 2025 Issue

Poem

Reflections

Czesław Miłosz

March 2025 Issue

Books Briefing

Why Contemporary Fiction Loves Analog Tech

Emma Sarappo

January 31, 2025

Books

In Search of the Book That Would Save Her Life

Kristen Martin

January 31, 2025

Global

Why Reading Lolita in Tehran Holds Up

Arash Azizi

January 26, 2025

The Atlantic Daily

A Weekend Reading List

Isabel Fattal

January 26, 2025

The Atlantic Daily

A High-Octane Mystery Series

Stephanie Bai

January 24, 2025

Books Briefing

What to Read in the Face of Disaster

Boris Kachka

January 24, 2025

The Atlantic Daily

A True-Crime Reading List

Stephanie Bai

January 19, 2025

Books Briefing

How Does a Real Person Become a Character?

Maya Chung

January 17, 2025

Books

A New Kind of Immigrant Novel

Laila Lalami

January 15, 2025

Dear James

I Have a Huge Crush on a Writer

James Parker

January 14, 2025

Books

Where Han Kang’s Nightmares Come From

Judith Shulevitz

February 2025 Issue

Books

A Holocaust Novel Confronts Fiction’s Limits

Robert Rubsam

January 13, 2025

Books

A Palestinian Story Unlike Any Other

Gal Beckerman

February 2025 Issue

The Wonder Reader

The Choices That Create Isolation

Isabel Fattal

January 11, 2025

The Atlantic Daily

Rock On, Readers

Tom Nichols

January 10, 2025

Books Briefing

Why We Celebrate When Copyright Expires

Boris Kachka

January 10, 2025

Books

The Saint America Needs Now

James Parker

February 2025 Issue

Book Recommendations

What to Read When the Odds Are Against You

Vanessa Armstrong

January 10, 2025

Ideas

You’re Going to Die. That’s a Good Thing.

Arthur C. Brooks

January 9, 2025

Time-Travel Thursdays

When Poets Face Death

Walt Hunter

January 9, 2025

Culture

The Bizarre Brain of Werner Herzog

Gal Beckerman

January 8, 2025

Books

How Sherlock Holmes Broke Copyright Law

Alec Nevala-Lee

January 7, 2025

Poem

Or (For Isaac)

Daniel Borzutzky

February 2025 Issue

The Wonder Reader

The Power of the Mental Workout

Isabel Fattal

January 4, 2025

Fiction

American Realism

Brandon Taylor

February 2025 Issue

Books Briefing

How ‘the End’ Helps Us Find New Beginnings

Emma Sarappo

January 3, 2025

Book Recommendations

Five Books That Offer Readers Intellectual Exercise

Ilana Masad

January 3, 2025

The Atlantic Daily

The Best Movies, TV Shows, and Books of 2024

Isabel Fattal

December 29, 2024

Book Recommendations

Six Books to Read by the Fire

Amanda Parrish Morgan

December 23, 2024

Books

Two Different Ways of Understanding Fatherhood

Lily Meyer

December 23, 2024

Books Briefing

The Art Monster Under the Bed

Maya Chung

December 20, 2024

Ideas

Postpone Your Pleasures

Arthur C. Brooks

December 19, 2024

Books

A Biting Satire of the Art World’s Monstrousness

Sophia Stewart

December 19, 2024

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