The Atlantic Presents: SHORTER STORIES
Six stories from a thrilling array of voices
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Molly Matalon for The Atlantic An Unlikely Model for Male Friendship
Beneath the hijinks and lewdness, the show Dave charts how real vulnerability is essential to male bonding.
ByronCohen / FX Cynthia Ozick on the Link Between Beauty and Purity
“Feeling, pure feeling, is a willing collaboration between the godlet and the believer who is carried away.”
Photo-illustration by The Atlantic. Source: Fred R. Conrad / The New York Times / Redux Kenan Orhan on Exile and Memory
“Tracing the origin of a story is only slightly more concrete than tracing a dream to its roots.”
Photo-illustration by The Atlantic. Source: Ashton Triplett. Hernan Diaz on Erasing Subjectivity
“Although the scope of ‘The Generation’ may seem, literally, cosmic, it is in fact intimate and highly personal.”
Jason Fulford / The Atlantic The Man Whose Magazine Covers Changed America
The late graphic designer George Lois profoundly influenced generations of artists.
Michael Nagle / The New York Times / Redux Getting Up
A short story
Photo-illustration by Oliver Munday Depicting Injustice
An interview with Fulton Leroy Washington
Photograph by Sean Maung for The Atlantic The Atlantic Presents: Shorter Stories
Fiction is often described as a mirror through which we see the world. What happens when a shard of glass must tell the entire story?
Photograph by Katie Martin / The Atlantic Nick Drnaso on Escaping From Isolation
“In my work there’s a recurring theme of being out of step with the modern world.”
Nick Drnaso
