The Atlantic Magazine - July - August 2024

In this issue

The First Three Months
What I saw inside the government’s response to COVID-19.
By Anthony Fauci

Too Cute to Fail
Koalas are threatened by climate change, cars, and chlamydia. Can Australia find a way to protect its most beloved animal?
By Katherine J. Wu

The Valley
Searching for the future in the most American city.
By George Packer

THE FIRST THREE MONTHS

What I saw inside the government’s response to COVID-19

10+ mins

THE GLACIER RESCUE PROJECT

Can the mighty Thwaites be stopped from tumbling into the sea?

10+ mins

Too Cute to Fail

Koalas are threatened by climate change, cars, and chlamydia. Can Australia find a way to protect its most beloved animal?

10+ mins

THE VALLEY

Searching for the future in the most American city

10+ mins

Tornado Watch

How Lee Isaac Chung reimagined Twister, one of the biggest climate-disaster thrillers of all time

8 mins

Kafka's Not Supposed to Make Sense - Kafka died a century ago this year at the age of 40, and since then a mighty industry has arisen to deliver all of the messages that Kafka said would never be delivered.

It would be foolish to claim that Kafka learned his metaphysical wordplay from Jewish texts alone. He read widely: Gustave Flaubert, Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe. He admired the understated prose of Anton Chekhov and Heinrich von Kleist. He read literary magazines that published cutting-edge work, too. Still, his regular reading of the Bible—nightly, during some periods of his life—contributed a laconic quality to his classical prose that doesn’t make him anachronistic; it makes him original.

10+ mins

The Industry That Ate America

The long and lurid history of lobbying

10+ mins

A Novel Without Characters

Rachel Cusk's lonely experiment: Parade. Her new book, a novel of elusive vignettes, it can be seen as an allegory about both fiction and the gendered shapes of selfhood.

10 mins

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