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How Greed Got Good Again
The Atlantic

How Greed Got Good Again

In HBO's Industry, Gen Z reveals itself to be just as moneyobsessed as the corporate raiders of Wall Street.

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September 2024
My Mother the Revolutionary
The Atlantic

My Mother the Revolutionary

She cared about saving the world more than she cared about me.

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10+ mins  |
September 2024
HOW M. NIGHT SHYAMALAN CAME BACK FROM THE DEAD
The Atlantic

HOW M. NIGHT SHYAMALAN CAME BACK FROM THE DEAD

The filmmaker weathered some of the wildest hype and harshest backlash that Hollywood has to offer. Then he found a different path.

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10+ mins  |
September 2024
AMERICAN FURY
The Atlantic

AMERICAN FURY

For years, experts have warned of a wave of political violence. We should prepare for things to get worse before they get better.

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September 2024
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.
The Atlantic

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.

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July - August 2024
A Novel Without Characters
The Atlantic

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.

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July - August 2024
THE GLACIER RESCUE PROJECT
The Atlantic

THE GLACIER RESCUE PROJECT

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

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July - August 2024
The Industry That Ate America
The Atlantic

The Industry That Ate America

The long and lurid history of lobbying

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10+ mins  |
July - August 2024
Tornado Watch
The Atlantic

Tornado Watch

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

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8 mins  |
July - August 2024
Too Cute to Fail
The Atlantic

Too Cute to Fail

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

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July - August 2024
THE FIRST THREE MONTHS
The Atlantic

THE FIRST THREE MONTHS

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

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July - August 2024
THE VALLEY
The Atlantic

THE VALLEY

Searching for the future in the most American city

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July - August 2024
THE AIRPORT-LOUNGE ARMS RACE
The Atlantic

THE AIRPORT-LOUNGE ARMS RACE

Inside the ever more extravagant competition to lure affluent travelers

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8 mins  |
June 2024
Hypochondria Never Dies
The Atlantic

Hypochondria Never Dies

The diagnosis is officially gone, but health anxiety is everywhere.

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9 mins  |
June 2024
Miranda July's Weird Road Trip
The Atlantic

Miranda July's Weird Road Trip

The author's midlife-crisis novel is full of estrangement, eroticism, and whimsy.

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9 mins  |
June 2024
The Wild Blood Dynasty
The Atlantic

The Wild Blood Dynasty

What a little-known family reveals about the nation's untamed spirit

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9 mins  |
June 2024
The Engrossing Darkness of The Crow
The Atlantic

The Engrossing Darkness of The Crow

Can a cult hit point the way forward for the beleaguered comic-book movie?

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5 mins  |
June 2024
The Godfather of American Comedy
The Atlantic

The Godfather of American Comedy

The funniest people on the planet think there's no funnier person than Albert Brooks.

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June 2024
The History My Family Left Behind
The Atlantic

The History My Family Left Behind

A gun, a lynching, and an exodus from Mississippi

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10+ mins  |
June 2024
Ozempic or Bust
The Atlantic

Ozempic or Bust

America has been trying to address the obesity epidemic for four decades now. So far, each new \"solution\" has failed to live up to its early promise.

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June 2024
THE ART OF SURVIVAL
The Atlantic

THE ART OF SURVIVAL

In living with cancer, Suleika Jaouad has learned to wrench meaning from our short time on Earth.

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9 mins  |
June 2024
DEMOCRACY IS LOSING THE PROPAGANDA WAR
The Atlantic

DEMOCRACY IS LOSING THE PROPAGANDA WAR

AUTOCRATS IN CHINA, RUSSIA, AND ELSEWHERE ARE NOW MAKING COMMON CAUSE WITH MAGA REPUBLICANS TO DISCREDIT LIBERALISM AND FREEDOM AROUND THE WORLD.

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June 2024
Before Facebook, There Was BlackPlanet
The Atlantic

Before Facebook, There Was BlackPlanet

An alternative history of the social web

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May 2024
After the Miracle
The Atlantic

After the Miracle

Cystic fibrosis once guaranteed an early deathbut a medical breakthrough has given many patients a chance to live decades longer than expected. What do they do now?

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April 2024
WILLIAM WHITWORTH 1937-2024
The Atlantic

WILLIAM WHITWORTH 1937-2024

WILLIAM WHITWORTH, the editor of The Atlantic from 1980 to 1999, had a soft voice and an Arkansas accent that decades of living in New York and New England never much eroded.

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May 2024
Christine Blasey Ford Testifies Again
The Atlantic

Christine Blasey Ford Testifies Again

Her new memoir doubles as a modern-day horror story.

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9 mins  |
May 2024
Is Theo Von the Next Joe Rogan?
The Atlantic

Is Theo Von the Next Joe Rogan?

Or is he something else entirely?

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5 mins  |
May 2024
Orwell's Escape
The Atlantic

Orwell's Escape

Why the author repaired to the remote Isle of Jura to write his masterpiece, 1984

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10+ mins  |
May 2024
What's So Bad About Asking Where Humans Came From?
The Atlantic

What's So Bad About Asking Where Humans Came From?

Human origin stories have often been used for nefarious purposes. That doesn't mean they are worthless.

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10 mins  |
May 2024
Miranda's Last Gift
The Atlantic

Miranda's Last Gift

When our daughter died suddenly, she left us with grief, memories and Ringo.

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10+ mins  |
May 2024