The Pandemic Reminded Us That Most Women Still Don’t Have a Room of Their Own
The past two years have shown us that we need to open our eyes to the biases built into our homes.
Why I Left the Garden
A poem for Sunday
And How Do These Books Make You Feel?
These seven books analyze what really happens between therapist and patient.
What a Nanny Knows
A nanny—fully immersed in the most intimate details of a family’s life, yet with an outsider’s point of view—can be the perfect protagonist: Your weekly guide to the best in books
That a Day Begins, Leave It to the Small
A poem for Wednesday
Mussolini Speaks, and Tells Us How Democracy Dies
A new novel about the rise of fascism, written from Il Duce’s perspective, has lessons for our fragile political system.
Father Andrews
A poem by Thomas Lynch, published in The Atlantic in 2008
The Inner Lives of Animals
Writers wonder if animals have minds like ours—and how important that question is: Your weekly guide to the best in books
The Deep Roots of Sexual Policing in America
A new book explores the way anti-loitering laws targeted Black women.
How to Make Change, Slowly
Making a difference is not just about charismatic leaders and huge protests. As these books show, social and political shifts are usually the result of sustained, unseen work.
Sex for Art’s Sake
Elif Batuman’s curious experiment in fiction
The Boy
A short story
First Poem After Parting
Keeping a Diary at the End of the World
The urge to document our lives during crisis is widely shared among writers: Your weekly guide to the best in books
The Parasitic Workplace
Two recent novels depict modern labor as a hallucinogenic hall of mirrors.
Nine Books That Came to Fame Slowly
Translation allowed these works to become popular all over again in English.
The Necklace
A poem for Sunday, published in The Atlantic in 2012
The Books Briefing: The Fight Over What Kids Can Read
Bans and attempted bans of critical race theory and the 1619 Project in classrooms are part of a familiar pattern: Your weekly guide to the best in books
The Price of Privacy
Who gets to keep a secret in a hyperconnected world?
The Emotion Missing From the Workplace
Sadness is a central part of our lives, yet it’s typically ignored at work, hurting employees and managers alike.