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  • Quote of the Day

    How John Updike formed his idea of what the great American novel should be.

    Conor FriedersdorfJune 24, 2010
  • An Unworked Field of Romance
    August 1896 Issue
  • A Brief List of Notable Atlantic Contributions
    November 1932 Issue
  • Paul Robeson and Peggy Ashcroft
    Nancy Caldwell SorelMay 1992 Issue
  • Italy's Anti-Berlusconi Opposition Gets Organized
    Miriam KruleMarch 4, 2011
  • 'Beam Us Up, Mr. Scott!': Why Misquotations Catch On
    Maria KonnikovaAugust 15, 2012
  • Play and Replay

    Ontario’s Stratford Festival offers total immersion in theater

    Gene BurnsJune 1994 Issue
  • Our Genius Problem

    Why this obsession with the word, with the idea, and with the people on whom we've bestowed the designation?

    Marjorie GarberDecember 2002 Issue
  • The Custom of Burial With the Head Towards the East
    Nathaniel Langdon FrothinghamMay 1867 Issue
  • They Shall Have Music
    John M. ConlyJanuary 1961 Issue
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