Been thinking a lot lately about the way the attention economy affects our viewing habits, so I called up some TV superfans who turned TV-watching into something resembling work, spreadsheets and all. ICYMI, my dive into the trend, for The Atlantic: theatlantic.com/culture/archiv…

"When she talked about the stories we tell ourselves in order to live, she wasn’t offering a gauzy pronouncement. She was issuing an indictment." - Megan Garber on Didion is one gorgeous sentence after another, each of which her subject would have loved theatlantic.com/culture/archiv…

I’m in love with this feature by Faith Hill about the ultra-introverts who live their lives nocturnally and the questions they raise about how “universal” the need for social connection really is: theatlantic.com/family/archive…

1/ They lost their son on 9/11. A father dove into his grief. A mother pushed hers away. Twenty years later, it’s changed them both. Read Jennifer Senior's Pulitzer Prize-winning story about one family's grief. theatlantic.com/magazine/archi…

PSA: new short story by Ling Ma in ⁦The Atlantic⁩ to start your morning!!! theatlantic.com/books/archive/…

happy monday! please enjoy my profile of the very mordant Alex Garland, who knows MEN prob won't be for anyone but can't help but take the wildest swings theatlantic.com/culture/archiv…

When I was 14 years old - in 1975 - Joan Didion came to my house for dinner. She hadn't even written the White Album yet, A chance encounter, yet here I am all these years later, a writer.

"You’ve never experienced such a catastrophe, and a dose of fatalism is inevitable, even necessary." The Russian writer Maxim Osipov writes about his journey into exile after his country invaded Ukraine. on.theatln.tc/H0xShlS

The Atlantic has always been a destination for great writers and for those who love literature. That’s why we’re making books a much bigger part of what we do, Jane Yong Kim writes: on.theatln.tc/g8yMeFJ

Rachel Carson is best remembered for the moral clarity of her classic book “Silent Spring.” But she also spent her life helping the public cultivate a sense of wonder. Anelise Chen on what we can learn from the marine biologist’s writings about the sea: on.theatln.tc/i3Nb0Ft

I wrote for The Atlantic about how our end-of-life laws continue to define "family" using a dated, 1950s framework. When someone dies without a will, it's unmarried partners, non-adopted children, and other nontraditional families that are left behind: theatlantic.com/family/archive…

Stories about American money tend to have a recognizable villain: the robber baron, the business tycoon, your boss. But writing about the shadowy system behind the hubristic capitalist is much more difficult. Jane Hu on Hernan Diaz’s new novel, “Trust”: on.theatln.tc/YQvMgA5

The public reception of the Heard–Depp trial is evidence of a culture that can’t seem to tell the difference between horror and humor. Megan Garber on the impulse to laugh violent language away: on.theatln.tc/kjZENiV

I also wrote an essay about what the past 3+ years of interviewing friends for The Friendship Files has taught me. It’s extremely sappy, I cried a lot writing it, I hope you like it! theatlantic.com/family/archive…

Two LA women - Jane Yong Kim, a native and me, a transplant - talk about that girl who lived in Hollywood and Malibu, and who changed everything. youtube.com/watch?v=Pewf4j…

The Supreme Court has ruled that the Constitution does not protect the right to an abortion. The main difference between the women who will make it to an abortion provider in a post-Roe world and those who won’t? Money, Melissa Jeltsen wrote in May. on.theatln.tc/G897vfd

If you're feeling down on survival, look to the sea. I wrote about 'Voice of the Fish' by Lars Horn and 'Undrowned' by Alexis Pauline Gumbs, two books that use marine life to reconsider what normality means under oppressive systems. theatlantic.com/books/archive/…

A potent portrait of social alienation, "No Longer Human" still reads with an apt urgency. Jane Yong Kim on Osamu Dazai's cult classic, 75 years after it was first published: theatlantic.com/books/archive/…