The Film Historian Who’s Sick of Movies
admin After a lifetime spent reviewing them, David Thomson makes a provocative but unconvincing case.
Books
The Incredible Freedom of Not Trying to Look Good
A new book explores the benefits of accepting ugliness instead of trying to change it.
The Slave Ship and the Mayflower
Can the story of America be told by two vessels?
Atlantic Reads: The Housewives Underground With Kaitlyn Tiffany
The <em>Atlantic </em>staff writer Kaitlyn Tiffany and Jeffrey Goldberg, <em>The Atlantic</em>’s editor in chief, discuss Tiffany’s new book, <em>The Housewives…
A Close-Up Look at the Waste of Modern Life
A new memoir by a Montreal garbageman shows the actual work of cleaning up the world’s junk.
A Night of Dominance and Submission
By staging a mixed-martial-arts melee on the White House lawn, the president expressed the essence of his worldview.
Nathaniel Hawthorne’s American Horror Story
The author wrote a tale that challenged the nation’s founding myths. Then it disappeared.
The Encounter
A short story
The Work That Goes Into ‘Effortless’ Style
Andrew Sean Greer’s new novel is deeper than it looks.
Marjane Satrapi’s Rebellious Life
The author of the best-selling graphic memoir <em>Persepolis</em>, who died last week, made defiance into a lifelong project.