Animals-and-Pets
The Atlantic
"Two of Every Race"
A family's impossible quest to erase prejudice through transracial adoption
10 min |
April 2023
The Atlantic
"We Belong Here"
In 1991, the family landed at a refugee camp in Saudi Arabia. There, Al-Badry got his first camera, a Pentax K1000.
1 min |
April 2023
The Atlantic
We're Already in the Metaverse
Reality is blurred. Boredom is intolerable. And everything is entertainment.
10+ min |
March 2023
The Atlantic
A New Way to Read Gatsby
F. Scott Fitzgerald never explicitly states Jay Gatsby's race.
9 min |
March 2023
The Atlantic
Second Life
During Donnie's first week in the mixed unit (drugs and crazy), a girl threw a TV set out the window because she thought it was criticizing her. Donnie walked to the window to look. \"Probably was,\" he mumbled.
10+ min |
April 2023
The Atlantic
Love Annihilated
The Irish writer Sebastian Barry's great subject
9 min |
April 2023
The Atlantic
The Scandalous, Clueless, Irresistible Oscars
How the Academy holds on to its prestige despite a history of embarrassment
10 min |
April 2023
The Atlantic
We're All Invited to the Lighthouse
On the Isle of Skye with Virginia Woolf and my mom
10+ min |
April 2023
The Atlantic
In Their Feelings
The indelible, indomitable voices of Miley Cyrus and Lana Del Rey
5 min |
April 2023
The Atlantic
Judy Blume Goes All the Way
A new generation discovers the poet laureate of puberty.
10+ min |
April 2023
The Atlantic
Arnold's Last Act
What happens when the Terminator turns 75
10+ min |
April 2023
The Atlantic
The French Are in a Panic Over Le Wokisme
The nation's vehement rejection of identity politics made me recalibrate my own views about woke ideology.
10+ min |
March 2023
The Atlantic
The Third Law of Magic
He spent the night making snow. He packed it tightly into balls of different sizes and stored them in the freezer to keep them stable.
10+ min |
March 2023
The Atlantic
The Masterpiece No One Wanted to Save
Censored and then forgotten, Anatoly Kuznetsov's Babi Yar, about the Nazi occupation of Kyiv, is again painfully relevant.
10 min |
March 2023
The Atlantic
Did George Washington Burn New York?
Americans disparaged the British as arsonists. But the rebels fought with fire too.
10 min |
March 2023
The Atlantic
The Miraculous Salman Rushdie
His enchanting new novel is a triumph.
10+ min |
March 2023
The Atlantic
Struck on One Side
Society tells me to celebrate my disability. What if I don't want to?
10+ min |
March 2023
The Atlantic
IS AMERICA READY FOR A NEW AGE OF NUCLEAR POWER?
THERE'S NO WAY TO MITIGATE CLIMATE CHANGE WITHOUT IT.
10+ min |
March 2023
The Atlantic
The Short King's
A maverick group of short sellers uses covert techniques to uncover fraud for profit. Now they're under investigation themselves. Are they the heroes of Wall Street, or the villains?
10+ min |
March 2023
The Atlantic
PARTY OF TROLLS
Republicans need to stop being so obnoxious.
7 min |
March 2023
The Atlantic
Why Read Literary Biography?
What Shirley Hazzard’ life can, and can't, tell us about her fiction
9 min |
January - February 2023
The Atlantic
Cormac McCarthy Has Never Been Better
His two new novels are the pinnacle of a controversial career.
10+ min |
January - February 2023
The Atlantic
White Noise Used to Be Satire
What was once mildly absurd is now funny because its true.
10+ min |
January - February 2023
The Atlantic
Can a Building Be Too Tall?
The rise and rise and rise of the supertall skyscraper
10+ min |
January - February 2023
The Atlantic
The End of Us
Is the reign of human beings on Earth nearing its end? A disparate group of thinkers says yes-and that we should welcome our demise.
10+ min |
January - February 2023
The Atlantic
The Prophecy of The Waste Land
One hundred years after the publication of LT. S. Eliot's masterwork, its vision has never been more terrifying.
10+ min |
January - February 2023
The Atlantic
The Reinvention of the Catholic Church
Scandals have taken a toll, and faith is flagging in Europe and the U.S. But Catholicism isnt on the wane—it’s changing in influential ways.
10 min |
January - February 2023
The Atlantic
THE EUREKA THEORY OF HISTORY IS WRONG
THE REAL REASON AMERICAN PROGRESS HAS STALLED
10+ min |
January - February 2023
The Atlantic
SEEING EARTH FROM SPACE WILL CHANGE YOU
The question is how.
9 min |
January - February 2023
The Atlantic
I WENT TO TAIWAN TO SAY GOODBYE
To my grandmother, and perhaps. the country whose resilience she shares
4 min |