Political autobiographies are usually dreck, but some rise above their genre. This is an edition of the Books Briefing, our ...
Hackish campaign memoirs shouldn’t indict the entire genre—there are truly excellent books written about power from the ...
The Republican nominee’s preoccupation with dictators, and his disdain for the American military, is deepening.
To read a book in college, it helps to have read a book in high school. Terence Tao, the world’s greatest living ...
Hypothetically, introducing friends from different social circles shouldn’t be that hard. Two people you like—and who like ...
The Russian dissident died under mysterious circumstances in a prison camp above the Arctic Circle last February, alone, ...
The story of Lefty Leflar, who died earlier this month, epitomizes the experience of countless young Americans for whom the ...
Milley went on to describe the grave degree to which former President Donald Trump, under whom Milley had served, was a ...
It is a radical gesture to treat the sick body, a body threatened by its own demise, as one that is also capable of ...
First, here are four stories from The Atlantic ’s Books section: ...
Oguz Atay stretched the possibilities of fiction and critiqued his changing nation with playful, surreal stories.
Cases of loose inspiration or coincidental convergences in art can be fascinating, because they force us to rethink what ...