Happy Shakespeare Day to all who celebrate

'1984' was about 1948. Laila Lalami explains why her new dystopia, 'The Dream Hotel,' is about the past decade of advancing surveillance and eroding privacy: theatlantic.com/books/archive/…

Late April, when LA weather pays New York a brief visit, shortly followed by LA people.

Where are the CHICAGO POPE memes? What happened to this site?

One of the things that most excited me about joining The Atlantic nine months ago was their exemplary summer-reading guide: Beautiful, smart, brilliantly curated, life-enhancing. This year, I even played a small part. Let's get reading: theatlantic.com/books/archive/…

Yeah I figured Miranda July drove a Focus.

🚨🚨🚨@CaityWeaver in The Atlantic! Caity Weaver in The Atlantic! theatlantic.com/books/archive/…

Elon Musk and Trump are feuding to distract you from Caity Weaver's first story in The Atlantic. Don't let them win! Read the story!! theatlantic.com/books/archive/…

Decent ranking, but number two is the winner. From now on my regular order will be known as “the Adrienne Adams”

I wrote about France's smoking ban...and me. theatlantic.com/culture/archiv…

Proud to have helped work on Emma Sarappo's defining The Atlantic essay about a generation that grew up with the "entitlement" of basic rights: theatlantic.com/culture/archiv…

Thirteen years after interviewing Toni Morrison (a lifetime highlight), I shared some quick thoughts in our @theatlantic newsletter about Clint Smith's essay on "Toni at Ranom": theatlantic.com/newsletters/ar…

Adventures in "predictive" AI: A friend texted to suggest meeting at the Grand Central Oyster Bar and Apple recommended replying: "how about that crab cakes place?"

The fracas over deportations to El Salvador and the Trump-Bukele bromance that fueled it have their roots in what Carolina Miranda calls a "brutish two-step" between the two countries. Her piece on Greg Grandin's new book, 'America, América': theatlantic.com/books/archive/…

Sensing that long subtitles are back in vogue.

Our The Atlantic literary travel series, The Writer's Way, continues today with another beautifully written piece: Honor Jones finds the heart of le Carré's nearly perfect novel, "A Perfect Spy," where you'd least expect to find it—Corfu: theatlantic.com/magazine/archi…

Actually I think LA could use a trashy tabloid (esp one not wholly run by Hollywood).

Guess the bar from the conversation: Man in shorts and flip flops pleading aggressively with expensively dressed woman, Slavic accents. “I would give you my kidney right now.” And “This country runs on corruption. This is not Switzerland or Luxembourg, this is the Wild West!”

I love how varied the pieces in our The Atlantic series "The Writer's Way" have turned out to be. The third entry: this beautiful meditation on Kyoto and "The Tale of Genji" by the peerless Lauren Groff: theatlantic.com/magazine/archi…

Hosted friends for Labor Day brunch and we talked about AI. Took an afternoon hike with another friend and we talked about AI.