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This is an edition of the Books Briefing, our editors’ weekly guide to the best in books. Sign up for it here. The wives in Mavis Gallant’s stories aren’t happy. In “The Flowers of Spring,” from 1950, a woman named […]

This is an edition of the Books Briefing, our editors’ weekly guide to the best in books. Sign up for it here. Not long after COVID lockdowns began in the U.S. five years ago this week, many readers and writers

This is an edition of the Books Briefing, our editors’ weekly guide to the best in books. Sign up for it here. A Florida retirement community might be an unexpected setting for a novel written by a Finnish Swedish children’s

Ella Baxter’s new novel reminds us that mediocrity is far more common than genius. Illustration by The Atlantic. Source: Getty. December 20, 2024, 2 PM ET This is an edition of the Books Briefing, our editors’ weekly guide to the

As of Tuesday afternoon, a California wildfire, labeled the Franklin Fire, has spread across more than 2,500 acres along California’s Pacific coastline, including Malibu, prompting evacuations and sending more than 800 firefighters to the scene.  The fire began around 11

This is an edition of the Books Briefing, our editors’ weekly guide to the best in books. Sign up for it here. “We live in an age of human self-contempt,” George Packer wrote this week. In an essay about Thomas

This is an edition of the Books Briefing, our editors’ weekly guide to the best in books. Sign up for it here. Over the past few months, I’ve found myself thinking a lot about old age. Earlier this year, most

This is an edition of Time-Travel Thursdays, a journey through The Atlantic’s archives to contextualize the present and surface delightful treasures. Sign up here. Over the past week or so, my X feed has been overtaken by Moo Deng, the

This is an edition of the Books Briefing, our editors’ weekly guide to the best in books. Sign up for it here. One of journalists’ tasks is to write something of “a first draft of history,” tracking and analyzing significant

This is an edition of the Books Briefing, our editors’ weekly guide to the best in books. Sign up for it here. This week, Sophie Vershbow asked English teachers, librarians, writers, and readers when it’s okay not to finish a