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Erin Kirkland The Beauty of Age
Scenes from an all-women’s nursing home
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For subscribers: How to Publish a Print Magazine Without an Office
This is The Atlantic’s weekly email to subscribers—a close look at the issues our newsroom is watching, just for you.
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Camille Picquot A View From the Before Times
When riding the subway seemed mundane
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The Visible Exhaustion of Doctors and Nurses Fighting the Coronavirus
Documenting the marks the pandemic is leaving on medical professionals in Italy
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Christopher Payne Fine Motor Skills
Photos from a factory where automation has yet to take hold
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Joshua Dudley Greer Christmas Under the Bypass
A photograph by Joshua Dudley Greer
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Evan Vucci / AP / Pool New / ... The Year in Letters
How Atlantic readers responded to the news in 2018
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Hulton Archive / Getty My Grandfather Was Welcomed to Pittsburgh by the Group the Gunman Hated
He came to this country a refugee, and paid his debt forward.
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Pavel Gospodinov / Getty The Deft Inventions of The Parking Lot Attendant
Nafkote Tamirat’s debut novel is a highly unusual allegory of alienation and hybrid identity.
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Oliver Lang / AFP / Getty The Eerie Horrors of The Perfect Nanny
Leïla Slimani’s novel scrutinizes the paradoxes of parenting in a world where the potential for disaster abounds.
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Carlos Barria / Reuters The Floating World Unearths Trauma Amid Natural Disaster
C. Morgan Babst’s debut novel, which follows a family in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina, tests the limits of selflessness and community.
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Amy Weiss-Meyer / The Atlantic A Freelance Diplomat Takes Scandinavia
Ex-Ambassador Rufus Gifford is still big in Denmark. But can he bring his political appeal back home?
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Nikola Solic / Reuters Swallowing Mercury Explores the Macabre Beauty of Childhood
Wioletta Greg’s novel, longlisted for the 2017 Man Booker International Prize, follows the interior life of a young girl during the waning days of the Polish People’s Republic.
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Shannon Stapleton / Reuters What We Lose: A Striking Novel About Filial Grief
Zinzi Clemmons’s debut tangles with familiar questions, using a propulsive experimentalism in lieu of linear narrative.
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Amr Nabil / AP The Story of a Revolution, Told in Real Time
Omar Robert Hamilton’s debut novel, The City Always Wins, follows members of an activist media collective chronicling the aftermath of the Egyptian uprising.
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Aly Song The Leavers Is a Wrenching Tale of Parenthood
Lisa Ko’s novel, about the disappearance of an undocumented mother, places an imperfect victim within a cruel system.
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Alvaro Dominguez Apps for Refugees
How technology helps in a humanitarian crisis
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Diego Main / Getty The Powerful Pessimism of What It Means When a Man Falls From the Sky
Lesley Nneka Arimah’s debut story collection takes a dystopic look at human life, but pulls back from the brink of total bleakness.
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Ajay Verma / Reuters The Lucky Ones Is No Ordinary Coming-of-Age Novel
Julianne Pachico’s remarkably inventive debut navigates what it means to grow up wealthy amid the reality of conflict in Colombia.
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Gary Hershorn / Getty Hope in the Rubble of the American Dream
Two new novels by Imbolo Mbue and Jade Chang take on the 2008 financial crisis from the perspective of immigrant families.
