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The Atlantic One Legacy of the Pandemic May Be Less Judgment of the Child-Free
The coronavirus could change lingering cultural assumptions about what makes for a full and happy life.
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Johnalynn Holland The Best American Novelist Whose Name You May Not Know
When her first novels were published, in the mid-1970s, Gayl Jones’s talent was hailed by writers from James Baldwin to John Updike. Then she disappeared.
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Natasha Trethewey / Katie Martin / The Atlantic How Poetry Can Guide Us Through Trauma
A former U.S. poet laureate’s new memoir reflects on the power of storytelling to help us grieve—and offers lessons for surviving the cataclysms of the present.
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Putnam / Graywolf / Anchor / The Atlantic The Books Briefing: And the Winner Is
On this year’s Booker Prize nominees, and winners from recent years: Your weekly guide to the best in books
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H. Armstrong Roberts / Getty / The Atlantic Will White People Forget About George Floyd?
A parable embedded in The Maltese Falcon offers a cautionary tale.
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Illustration by Celina Pereira; BStU; Ulrich Hässler / ... A KGB Man to the End
The origins of Putin’s worldview—and the rise of Russia’s new ruling class
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Miki Lowe Winter’s Tale
A poem by Maxine Kumin, published in The Atlantic in 2009
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Doug Mills / The New York Times / ... The Books Briefing: What Is a Political Memoir For?
What we can learn from books by politicians and their family members: Your weekly guide to the best in books
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Getty / The Atlantic The Literature of the Pandemic Is Already Here
For those engaging in quick-response art, mess and chaos—not polished elegance—are the forms to best mimic a crisis that has no end in sight.
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Bruce Davidson / Magnum All My Mothers
A poem for Sunday
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VCG WILSON / CORBIS / GETTY The Books Briefing: What to Read If You’re Looking for Something to Read
An omnibus reading list, from classic novels to poems to short stories: Your weekly guide to the best in books
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The Atlantic Marisa Silver on the Tangled Nature of Memory
“We are never living just in the present. We’re constantly sourcing back to the past or thinking about what comes next.”
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Oliver Munday / The Atlantic The Memory Wing
A short story
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Shutterstock / The Atlantic How Americans Became Part of the Trump Family
The president’s dark emotional inheritance has become the nation’s.
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Miki Lowe Love Sonnets
A collection of sonnets by Pablo Neruda, published in The Atlantic in 1986
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Shutterstock; Paul Spella / The Atlantic The Threat to American Democracy That Has Nothing to Do With Trump
The disappearance of local news is a slow-moving disaster.
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Donald Uhrbrock / The LIFE Images Collection / ... The Books Briefing: How to Read a Classic Today
To Kill a Mockingbird’s legacy is far from the only one readers must reckon with: Your weekly guide to the best in books
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Jake Belcher Ottessa Moshfegh’s Riveting Meta-Mysteries
In her third novel, the writer again explores women’s quests for control over their own stories.
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KangHee Kim Americans Are Living in an Alternate History
As the pandemic has raged on, popular culture has found new ways to ask an old question: What could have been instead?
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George Shiras / Katie Martin / The Atlantic Digital Fauna
A poem for Sunday
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