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Illustration by The Atlantic. Sources: Getty. What Children Remember About Their Fathers
A reading list on fatherhood and the memories that stick
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Illustration by The Atlantic. Source: Getty. Do Students Need Facts or Stories?
“I am not wise enough to say where the young can find what they need,” Neil Postman wrote in 1989. But he had an idea about where to start.
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Illustration by Matteo Giuseppe Pani. Source: Getty. The Two Women Who Wrote as ‘Michael Field’
Their poems about the experience of beauty help explain the choice to write as one person.
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Illustration by Matteo Giuseppe Pani. Source: Getty. The Limits of Utopia
Fifty years ago, the architect Peter Blake questioned everything he thought he knew about modern design.
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Illustration by The Atlantic. Source: Getty. A Critic’s Case Against Cinema
Sixty years ago, Pauline Kael said that the movies were going to pieces. In a sense, she was right.
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Illustration by The Atlantic. Source: Getty. The Passover Plot
The dark legacy and ongoing body count of an ancient anti-Semitic myth
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Illustration by The Atlantic. Sources: Getty. The Golden Age of Dating Doesn’t Exist
Romance in America has never been easy.
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Illustration by Matteo Giuseppe Pani. Sources: Getty. Solar Eclipses Are Always With Us
“In celestial spaces shadows cannot fail to fall, and the solid earth must now and then intercept them,” Mabel Loomis Todd wrote in 1897.
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Illustration by Matteo Giuseppe Pani. Sources: Getty. Solving a Century-Old Byline Mystery
Who was “Atlanticus,” the writer who foreshadowed the Titanic disaster?
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Illustration by Matteo Giuseppe Pani. Sources: Getty. The Art of Communing With Trees
What are we to make of a life that can age and grow young again at the turn of the seasons?
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Illustration by Matteo Giuseppe Pani. Sources: Getty. The Persistent Mystery of Protein Intake
Scientists still aren’t sure how much we actually need.
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Illustration by The Atlantic. Sources: Getty. Do the Oscars Still Mean Anything?
Showy distraction is a key part of the awards’ DNA, but they’re also a motivator for those who make movies.
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Matteo Giuseppe Pani; Source: Getty When Soccer Was an American Afterthought
In a 1979 Atlantic article titled “Sportspeak,” soccer warranted only one sentence.
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Illustration by The Atlantic. Source: Associated Press. The Legacy of Charles V. Hamilton and Black Power
A tribute to a true theorist of democracy
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Illustration by Matteo Giuseppe Pani. Source: Getty. The Twin Drives of Love and Death
Atlantic writers have long meditated on these two fates of all living things.
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Illustration by The Atlantic. Source: PhotoQuest / Getty How The Atlantic First Made Sense of Jazz
In 1922, a musicologist imagined how future historians might judge the day’s jazz cynics.
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Illustration by The Atlantic. Source: Getty. Revisiting America’s Most Radical Experiment
The Reconstruction era is not just a distant, bygone time. It’s also a living history.
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Illustration by Matteo Giuseppe Pani A Counterintuitive Effect of Global Warming
For decades, scientists have debated the possibility that a vital ocean-current system could plunge Europe into an abrupt cooldown.
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Illustration by Matteo Giuseppe Pani; Source: Getty. Why Britain Can’t Quit the Monarchy
The Crown is dead, long live the Crown.
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Illustration by Matteo Giuseppe Pani; Source: Getty America Before Pizza
The beginning of the country’s love affair with bread, cheese, and sauce
