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Stewart Brand’s Whole Earth Catalog was seen as a countercultural milestone, but his new book reveals his alliances with the powerful.
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Each is animated by the author’s love—for their subject, for language, and for pushing the boundaries of what the genre can do.
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Stories about women living together are proliferating—and offering alternative visions to the nuclear family.
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A new biography brings the late photographer’s relationship with the artist Paul Thek to vivid life.
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The Best Book I Read This Year
The Atlantic’s editors and writers share their favorite titles—new, classic, or somewhere in between—from a year of reading.