If someone had no relationships—no colleagues to appease, no parents to make proud, no lovers to impress—how might they behave? Maya Chung asks in this week’s #TheAtlanticBooksBriefing: theatlantic.com/newsletters/ar…
When asking questions can feel synonymous with making bad-faith arguments, one of the hardest things to hold on to may be an open mind. In #TheAtlanticBooksBriefing, Boris Kachka writes about authors who ask: How do we know when, or whether, to change our mind? theatlantic.com/newsletters/ar…
When asking questions can feel synonymous with making bad-faith arguments, one of the hardest things to hold on to may be an open mind. In #TheAtlanticBooksBriefing, Boris Kachka writes about authors who ask: How do we know when, or whether, to change our mind? theatlantic.com/newsletters/ar…
One of the best things about fiction is that it can convey higher truths than even an author knows, Boris Kachka writes in #TheAtlanticBooksBriefing. But, he asks, should novelists write the world as it is—or as it should be? theatlantic.com/newsletters/ar…
Two authors' new memoirs attempt to communicate intensely isolating experiences to readers. In #TheAtlanticBooksBriefing, Boris Kachka on a new, unbearably honest kind of writing: theatlantic.com/newsletters/ar…
When times feel especially difficult, where can people turn to ward off the threat of paralyzing despair? In #TheAtlanticBooksBriefing, Boris Kachka writes about authors who offer useful wisdom: theatlantic.com/newsletters/ar…
Ella Baxter’s new novel offers a wry twist on a long-standing moral question, Maya Chung writes in #TheAtlanticBooksBriefing: theatlantic.com/newsletters/ar…
Ella Baxter’s new novel offers a wry twist on a long-standing moral question, Maya Chung writes in #TheAtlanticBooksBriefing: theatlantic.com/newsletters/ar…
Ella Baxter’s new novel offers a wry twist on a long-standing moral question, Maya Chung writes in #TheAtlanticBooksBriefing: theatlantic.com/newsletters/ar…
Cher’s memoir is a valuable document of a young girl thrust into the adult world, Emma Sarappo writes in #TheAtlanticBooksBriefing. theatlantic.com/newsletters/ar…
Cher’s memoir is a valuable document of a young girl thrust into the adult world, Emma Sarappo writes in this week's #TheAtlanticBooksBriefing. theatlantic.com/newsletters/ar…
Cher’s memoir is a valuable document of a young girl thrust into the adult world, Emma Sarappo writes in this week's #TheAtlanticBooksBriefing. theatlantic.com/newsletters/ar…
Thomas Mann’s “The Magic Mountain” offers a unique antidote to contempt and despair, Maya Chung writes in #TheAtlanticBooksBriefing. theatlantic.com/newsletters/ar…
Thomas Mann’s “The Magic Mountain” offers a unique antidote to contempt and despair, Maya Chung writes in this week's #TheAtlanticBooksBriefing. theatlantic.com/newsletters/ar…
Thomas Mann’s “The Magic Mountain” offers a unique antidote to contempt and despair, Maya Chung writes in this week's #TheAtlanticBooksBriefing. theatlantic.com/newsletters/ar…
If Boris Kachka were to assign one book to every American voter this week, it would be Alexei Navalny’s “Patriot.” The memoir reminds readers how crucial the freedoms to vote and dissent are, he writes in this week's #TheAtlanticBooksBriefing. theatlantic.com/newsletters/ar…