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Stories about women living together are proliferating—and offering alternative visions to the nuclear family.
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Peter Hujar’s Photos Are All the Rage. He’d Be Shocked.
A new biography brings the late photographer’s relationship with the artist Paul Thek to vivid life.
If You Want a Better World, Act Like You Live in It
We’ve had Henry David Thoreau the environmentalist, the libertarian, the life coach. To understand his influence, think of him first as a dissident.
The Publishing Mystery That No One Wants to Talk About
A minimally speaking autistic man just wrote a best-selling book. Or did he?
The Paradox of Modern Medicine
Testing has become so advanced that doctors now miss important elements of diagnosis.
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Eight of the Most Fascinating Biographies to Read
Each is animated by the author’s love—for their subject, for language, and for pushing the boundaries of what the genre can do.
Six Books That Simply Must Be Talked About
These six books demand discussion—with a pal, a date, or a book club.
Nine Books to Reset Your View of the World
Each of these titles will widen your perspective, offering you original insight and vision.
Seven Books to Read When You Have No Time to Read
These titles are worth picking up, even if you have only a moment to spare.
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Scars
A short story
Fortunes
A short story
The Honor of the Layward Brothers
A short story
We Are Not One
A short story
Six Books to Read When You Want to Feel Closer to Others
The following six titles are correctives to isolation.
A Country Shaped by Love and Fear
Two new books explore the emotions that affect the political life of the Jewish state.
The Joyful, Punk World of Plant-Based Eating
Alicia Kennedy’s new book is a paean to a life without meat. But she’s driven more by curiosity than a desire to convert her readers.
The Atlantic Presents: SHORTER STORIES
Six stories from a thrilling array of voices
Bertrande de Rols
A poem for Sunday
Murdered by My Replica?
Margaret Atwood responds to the revelation that pirated copies of her books are being used to train AI.
This Week in Books: I Want to Know What Love Is
A new book argues that love has been “stolen away from the poets.”
The Women Writers Who Destroyed Their Own Work
The act can be the result of a fevered impulse—or a display of ferocious will.
Stephen King: My Books Were Used to Train AI
One prominent author responds to the revelation that his writing is being used to coach artificial intelligence.
A Better Story
A poem for Wednesday