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Blaming Our Inner Ape
The Atlantic

Blaming Our Inner Ape

Humans love to pin retrograde gender dynamics on our primate cousins. Is that fair?

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June 2022
Chasing Joan Didion
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Chasing Joan Didion

I visited the writer's California homes, from Berkeley to Malibu. What was looking for?

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June 2022
The End Of Mom Guilt
The Atlantic

The End Of Mom Guilt

Why a mother's ambition is good for her family

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May 2022
The Shadow Royals
The Atlantic

The Shadow Royals

Across Europe, the descendants of dethroned monarchs believe they have something to offer in the 21st Century

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May 2022
Change the Map, Change the Moral
The Atlantic

Change the Map, Change the Moral

A global view of World War II turns a battle for freedom into a battle for empire.

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May 2022
Fox News Does Late Night
The Atlantic

Fox News Does Late Night

Greg Gutfeld has owned the libs all the way to the top of the ratings

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June 2022
The Defiant Strangeness of Werner Herzog
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The Defiant Strangeness of Werner Herzog

The director brings his signature theme adventurers who share his quixotic compulsions—to his debut novel.

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June 2022
There Is No Liberal World Order
The Atlantic

There Is No Liberal World Order

Unless democracies defend themselves the forces of autocracy will destroy them.

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May 2022
Tour Guides to a Tragedy
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Tour Guides to a Tragedy

The killing of three civil-rights workers in Neshoba County, Mississippi, in 1964 changed America. But today, if you want to know what happened here, you need to know who to ask.

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May 2022
Better Call Saul Dared to Bore Us
The Atlantic

Better Call Saul Dared to Bore Us

Do we still have time for slow TV?

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May 2022
After Babel
The Atlantic

After Babel

How social media dissolved the mortar of society and made America stupid

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May 2022
What's Bugging You?
The Atlantic

What's Bugging You?

Viewfinder

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May 2022
Winslow Homer's America
The Atlantic

Winslow Homer's America

What the painter saw, and why it still speaks to us

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May 2022
Stiff Neck
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Stiff Neck

I'd run out of sympathy for COVID skeptics. Then I remembered my father.

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April 2022
Privacy Isn't Dead
The Atlantic

Privacy Isn't Dead

But who gets to keep a secret in hyperconnected world!

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May 2022
Sex for Art's Sake
The Atlantic

Sex for Art's Sake

Elif Batuman's curious experiment in fiction

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May 2022
The Abortion Underground
The Atlantic

The Abortion Underground

Inside the covert network of activists preparing for a post-Roe future

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May 2022
The Goon Squad Gets Old
The Atlantic

The Goon Squad Gets Old

Do Jennifer Egan's tricks still work?

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April 2022
The Man Who Told All
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The Man Who Told All

How the naked grief of John Gunther's Death Be Not Proud inaugurated an American genre

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April 2022
The Patron Saint of Stuck Presidencies
The Atlantic

The Patron Saint of Stuck Presidencies

What Joe Biden can learn from Harry Truman

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April 2022
A Good Man, at One Time
The Atlantic

A Good Man, at One Time

How a Mississippi inmate became an advocate for his own execution

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April 2022
The Story of Jack and Neal
The Atlantic

The Story of Jack and Neal

The friendship that made On the Road—and the Beat Generation possible

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April 2022
My Personality Transplant
The Atlantic

My Personality Transplant

How to find happiness, how I made myself less unpleasant

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March 2022
The Madness of the Method
The Atlantic

The Madness of the Method

Does acting need to be grueling to be good?

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March 2022
It's Your Friends Who Break Your Heart
The Atlantic

It's Your Friends Who Break Your Heart

The older we get, the more we need our friends-and the harder it is to keep them.

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March 2022
Cromer
The Atlantic

Cromer

In New Malden, they owned a corner shop together. It was the place where you could get the gossip magazines and newspapers from Seoul.

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April 2022
SCHOOL SHOULDN'T BE A BATTLEFIELD
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SCHOOL SHOULDN'T BE A BATTLEFIELD

There's a better way to educate our kids.

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April 2022
How Ireland Blundered Into the Modern World
The Atlantic

How Ireland Blundered Into the Modern World

The same forces that stalled a national transformation ended up fueling it.

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April 2022
The Smutty Mystic
The Atlantic

The Smutty Mystic

What everyone gets wrong about Sheila Heti’s fiction

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March 2022
There's No Such Thing as “the Latino Vote”
The Atlantic

There's No Such Thing as “the Latino Vote”

Why can't America see that?

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March 2022