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We're All Invited to the Lighthouse
The Atlantic

We're All Invited to the Lighthouse

On the Isle of Skye with Virginia Woolf and my mom

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April 2023
In Their Feelings
The Atlantic

In Their Feelings

The indelible, indomitable voices of Miley Cyrus and Lana Del Rey

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April 2023
Judy Blume Goes All the Way
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Judy Blume Goes All the Way

A new generation discovers the poet laureate of puberty.

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April 2023
Arnold's Last Act
The Atlantic

Arnold's Last Act

What happens when the Terminator turns 75

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April 2023
The French Are in a Panic Over Le Wokisme
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.

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March 2023
The Third Law of Magic
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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.

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March 2023
The Masterpiece No One Wanted to Save
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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.

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March 2023
Did George Washington Burn New York?
The Atlantic

Did George Washington Burn New York?

Americans disparaged the British as arsonists. But the rebels fought with fire too.

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March 2023
The Miraculous Salman Rushdie
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The Miraculous Salman Rushdie

His enchanting new novel is a triumph.

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March 2023
Struck on One Side
The Atlantic

Struck on One Side

Society tells me to celebrate my disability. What if I don't want to?

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March 2023
IS AMERICA READY FOR A NEW AGE OF NUCLEAR POWER?
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IS AMERICA READY FOR A NEW AGE OF NUCLEAR POWER?

THERE'S NO WAY TO MITIGATE CLIMATE CHANGE WITHOUT IT.

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March 2023
The Short King's
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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?

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March 2023
PARTY OF TROLLS
The Atlantic

PARTY OF TROLLS

Republicans need to stop being so obnoxious.

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March 2023
Why Read Literary Biography?
The Atlantic

Why Read Literary Biography?

What Shirley Hazzard’ life can, and can't, tell us about her fiction

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January - February 2023
Cormac McCarthy Has Never Been Better
The Atlantic

Cormac McCarthy Has Never Been Better

His two new novels are the pinnacle of a controversial career.

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January - February 2023
White Noise Used to Be Satire
The Atlantic

White Noise Used to Be Satire

What was once mildly absurd is now funny because its true.

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January - February 2023
Can a Building Be Too Tall?
The Atlantic

Can a Building Be Too Tall?

The rise and rise and rise of the supertall skyscraper

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January - February 2023
The End of Us
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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.

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January - February 2023
The Prophecy of The Waste Land
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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.

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January - February 2023
The Reinvention of the Catholic Church
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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.

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January - February 2023
THE EUREKA THEORY OF HISTORY IS WRONG
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THE EUREKA THEORY OF HISTORY IS WRONG

THE REAL REASON AMERICAN PROGRESS HAS STALLED

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January - February 2023
SEEING EARTH FROM SPACE WILL CHANGE YOU
The Atlantic

SEEING EARTH FROM SPACE WILL CHANGE YOU

The question is how.

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January - February 2023
I WENT TO TAIWAN TO SAY GOODBYE
The Atlantic

I WENT TO TAIWAN TO SAY GOODBYE

To my grandmother, and perhaps. the country whose resilience she shares

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January - February 2023
THE LOOMING REVOLT OVER HOMELESSNESS
The Atlantic

THE LOOMING REVOLT OVER HOMELESSNESS

Liberals know how to solve the problem. Why dont they?

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January - February 2023
Siegfried & Roy – The Original Tiger Kings
The Atlantic

Siegfried & Roy – The Original Tiger Kings

The improbable rise and savage fall of Siegfried & Roy

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November 2022
Good Luck, Mr. Rice
The Atlantic

Good Luck, Mr. Rice

A Philadelphia teenager and the empty promise of the Sixth Amendment

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November 2022
The Literature of Paranoia
The Atlantic

The Literature of Paranoia

Living in Turkey has made Orhan Pamuk a master of the genre.

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November 2022
The Long History of Russian Brutality
The Atlantic

The Long History of Russian Brutality

What the fratricidal fury of the country's civil war a century ago can teach us about the invasion of Ukraine

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November 2022
The Trap
The Atlantic

The Trap

What it takes to make it in hip-hops new capital

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November 2022
Take a Chance on Them
The Atlantic

Take a Chance on Them

ABBA makes a triumphant return.

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November 2022