Science
The Atlantic
Songs of Herself
How did Taylor Swift convince the world that she's relatable?
10+ min |
October 2025
The Atlantic
Culture Critics
On July 5, a couple of days after I saw Spinal Tap II: The End Continues, Black Sabbath played its final show, at Villa Park, in Birmingham, England.
5 min |
October 2025
The Atlantic
THE NEIGHBOR FROM HELL
Israel and the United States delivered a blow to Iran. But it could come back stronger.
10+ min |
October 2025
The Atlantic
Whither the Dictionary?
These are parlous times for lexicographers.
8 min |
October 2025
The Atlantic
THE GREATEST FIGHT OF ALL TIME
It was oven-hot inside the arena, and that was before the fight began.
10+ min |
October 2025
The Atlantic
John Cheever's Secrets
In a new memoir, Susan Cheever searches for the wellspring of her father's genius.
10 min |
October 2025
The Atlantic
The Ghost of Lady Murasaki
A thousand years ago, she wrote The Tale of Genji, a story of sex and intrigue in Japan's imperial court. I went to Kyoto to find her.
10+ min |
October 2025
The Atlantic
The Invention of Judd Apatow
How a kid from Long Island willed his way to the top of American comedy
10+ min |
October 2025
The Atlantic
How Originalism Killed the Constitution
A radical legal philosophy has undermined the process of constitutional evolution.
10+ min |
October 2025
The Atlantic
YOU DESERVED BETTER
A letter to America's discarded public servants
8 min |
October 2025
The Atlantic
Eighty Years on the Edge
Thank you for your series of articles on nuclear warfare.
4 min |
October 2025
The Atlantic
CANADA IS KILLING ITSELF
THE COUNTRY GAVE ITS CITIZENS THE RIGHT TO DIE...DOCTORS ARE STRUGGLING TO KEEP UP WITH DEMAND.
10+ min |
September 2025
The Atlantic
WHY MARRIAGE SURVIVES
The institution has adapted, and is showing new signs of resilience.
9 min |
September 2025
The Atlantic
The Forgotten Still-Life Prodigy
The 17th-century painter Rachel Ruysch was once more famous than Vermeer.
9 min |
September 2025
The Atlantic
THIS IS WHAT THE END OF THE LIBERAL WORLD ORDER LOOKS LIKE
In a post-American world, greed and nihilism are destroying Sudan.
10+ min |
September 2025
The Atlantic
The Judgments of Muriel Spark
The novelist Muriel Spark died almost 20 years ago, but she still regularly appears on lists of top comic novelists to read on this subject or that. Crave more White Lotus-level skewering of the ridiculous rich? Try Memento Mori, The New York Times suggests. An acerbic take on boring dinner parties? Symposium. Interested in “the fun and funny aspects of being a teacher”? Read The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie— also good for learning how to be a highly inappropriate teacher, if you want to know that too.
10+ min |
September 2025
The Atlantic
Playing Mailman
A new memoir considers what public service is, and what it isn't.
8 min |
September 2025
The Atlantic
Chasing le Carré in Corfu
If you're trying to find someone who doesn't want to be found, you don't go to the obvious places.
10+ min |
September 2025
The Atlantic
THE MAN WHO ATE NASA
The agency once projected America's loftiest ideals. Then it ceded its ambitions to Elon Musk.
10+ min |
September 2025
The Atlantic
CAPTAIN RON'S GUIDE TO FEARLESS FLYING
The pilot who calms the nerves of anxious fliers
7 min |
September 2025
The Atlantic
GOING BACK
What home meant before, and after, Hurricane Katrina
10 min |
September 2025
The Atlantic
Mrs. Dalloway's Midlife Crisis
Virginia Woolf's wild run of creativity in her 40s included writing her masterpiece on the terrors and triumphs of middle age.
6 min |
September 2025
The Atlantic
MY FATHER'S WORK
In August 2000, when I was 2 years old, my mother put me in a maroon velvet dress and stuck foam earplugs in my ears.
10+ min |
September 2025
The Atlantic
The Light of a Man-Made Star
In 2003, the photographer Michael Light published 100 Suns, a collection of government photographs of nuclear-weapons tests conducted from 1945 to 1962.
1 min |
August 2025
The Atlantic
It Has Pockets!
How Claire McCardell changed women's fashion
10 min |
August 2025
The Atlantic
Lamentations-A short story
It was March when I received the news that Harold had died in one of his caves.
10+ min |
August 2025
The Atlantic
MY PERSONAL WAR ON PLASTIC
What happened when I tried to eliminate it from my family's life
10 min |
August 2025
The Atlantic
American Insomnia
Tossing and turning through our national sleep crisis
10+ min |
August 2025
The Atlantic
THE WARRIOR MYTH
THE WARRIOR MYTH What Pete Hegseth doesn't understand about soldiers
8 min |
August 2025
The Atlantic
The High Art of Pro Wrestling
Yes, it's fiction. So is Moby Dick.
9 min |