In exchange for vivid portraits of female characters’ lives, readers of Alcott’s novel had to endure a lot of harmful moralizing—which Greta Gerwig’s new movie version strips away.

The president of the United States reflects on what Abraham Lincoln means to him, and to America.

This author-themed tour of our history commemorates these writers and the magazine’s 160th anniversary.

The school's Houghton Library is seeking someone to help make its collections as accessible as possible.

Atlantic writers have long meditated on these two fates of all living things.