literature

Books Briefing

Turning a Hobby Into a Habit

Maya Chung

August 1, 2025

Books

Memoir of a Mailman

Tyler Austin Harper

September 2025 Issue

Time-Travel Thursdays

The Birth of the Attention Economy

Jake Lundberg

July 31, 2025

Ideas

How to Know You’re Not a Phony

Arthur C. Brooks

July 31, 2025

Ideas

The Big Story: The Happiness Files

July 31, 2025

Dear James

Dear James: Am I Wrong Not to Dwell on the Past?

James Parker

July 29, 2025

Poem

Preamble to the West

Iris Jamahl Dunkle

July 27, 2025

The Atlantic Daily

A Gritty and Genuinely Readable Book

Stephanie Bai

July 27, 2025

The Wonder Reader

The Pleasures of Reading Outside

Isabel Fattal

July 26, 2025

Books Briefing

What John le Carré Learned in Corfu

Boris Kachka

July 25, 2025

Book Recommendations

The One Book Everyone Should Read

The Atlantic Culture Desk

July 23, 2025

The Writer’s Way

Chasing le Carré in Corfu

Honor Jones

September 2025 Issue

Books

The Most Dangerous Kind of Friendship

Bekah Waalkes

July 22, 2025

Poem

Your Horses

Jodie Hollander

July 20, 2025

Books Briefing

What Andrea Gibson Understood About Very Simple Poetry

Emma Sarappo

July 18, 2025

Books

What to Do With the Most Dangerous Book in America

James Shapiro

July 18, 2025

Books

Andrea Gibson Refused to ‘Battle’ Cancer

Faith Hill

July 16, 2025

Books

What We Gain by Forgetting

Rachel Vorona Cote

July 15, 2025

Poem

Buying Shrimp at Bennetts Point

Roey Leonardi

July 13, 2025

The Atlantic Daily

Six Weekend Stories

Stephanie Bai

July 13, 2025

Books Briefing

Is America Really Exceptional?

Boris Kachka

July 11, 2025

Time-Travel Thursdays

Who’s Afraid of Being Middlebrow?

Shan Wang

July 10, 2025

Fiction

Lamentations

Nicole Krauss

August 2025 Issue

Poem

Seven Summers

Jana Prikryl

August 2025 Issue

The Atlantic Daily

A Writer Who Slows Down the Speed-Reader

Stephanie Bai

July 6, 2025

Books Briefing

A Philosophy That Sees ‘Women as Doers’

Maya Chung

July 4, 2025

Ideas

Lunch With Virginia Woolf

Xochitl Gonzalez

July 4, 2025

Time-Travel Thursdays

The Worst Kind of Writing About Young Adulthood

Faith Hill

July 3, 2025

Books

The Feminine Pursuit of Swoleness

Julie Beck

July 3, 2025

Books

The Mainstreaming of Literary Kink

Lily Burana

July 1, 2025

Poem

For Now

Christopher Kondrich

June 29, 2025

The Atlantic Daily

Five Sunday Reads

Stephanie Bai

June 29, 2025

Books Briefing

Toni Morrison’s Definition of a Legacy

Boris Kachka

June 27, 2025

Books

The Cure for Guilty Memories

Lily Meyer

June 27, 2025

Fiction

Fools for Love

Helen Schulman

June 26, 2025

Books

How Toni Morrison Changed Publishing

Clint Smith

August 2025 Issue

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