Black American artists inherit a literary past that is prickly at best.
JOHN AVERY SNYDER is a junior at the Episcopal Academy, Overbrook, Pennsylvania. This is his first appearance in the ATLANTIC.
What is the function of poetry? One of America’s highly regarded younger poets here evokes ways in which the poem, like a fish playing the fiddle, transcends temporality.
When the greatest novel of the decade appears every six months . . . when major literary events happen every other week . . . when critics sound like publicists . . . what’s going on here, anyway?
A noirish novel set in the world of strip clubs and BDSM dungeons ventures beyond titillation and into the daily grind.
“Cherish it while you can” is hard advice to follow for many new parents.
Influential novelists are imagining what women’s lives might look like without the demands of partners and children.
My quest for a true literary experience resulted in choucroute, a surprise organ feast, an epiphany at the Louvre, existential dread, and a rowboat.
The nearly 375-year-old religion’s principles line up surprisingly well with modern parenting research.