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The Atlantic

Is Maggie O’Farrell’s New Novel ‘Land’ Just Grief Porn?

July 19, 2026July 20, 2026 Katie Smith 0 Comments anti-colonialism, Book Review, British colonialism, British Empire, Canada, Catholic Church, colonialism, family saga, Great Irish Famine, grief, grief literature, Hamnet, Hillary Kelly, historical fiction, Ireland, Irish history, Irish literature, Jessie Buckley, Joan Didion, Knopf, Land, literary fiction, Maggie OFarrell, mapmaking, resilience, The Atlantic, The Year of Magical Thinking

The ‘Hamnet’ author’s charts Ireland’s history

PEN President Resigns To Protest the Uncovering of Antisemitism

July 12, 2026July 12, 2026 Rebecca Kurson 0 Comments Achille Lauro, Anne Boyer, anti-Zionism, Antisemitism, authors, BDS, Beirut Fragments, book publishing, cancel culture, Censorship, Dinaw Mengestu, Doubleday, editorial standards, free speech, freedom of expression, Gabriella Karefa-Johnson, Gaza, George Packer, Hamas, identity politics, Israel, Leon Klinghoffer, literary culture, Marjane Satrapi, New York Times Magazine, October 7, Park Slope Food Coop, PEN America, performative activism, performative quitting, Publishing, publishing industry, self-censorship, SodaStream, Suzanne Nossel, The Atlantic, The Believer, Thomas Gebremedhin, Vogue, writers

How did an organization designed to protect writers end up abandoning Jews to persecution?

BOOKS Featured Stories

The Cruelty of Nice Minnesota Folks

June 26, 2026July 1, 2026 William Schwartz 0 Comments African American history, American history, American politics, autoethnography, Black Lives Matter, book criticism, Book Review, civil rights, contemporary nonfiction, George Floyd, George Floyd protests, Harper, health care inequality, housing discrimination, Hubert Humphrey, Justin Ellis, Ku Klux Klan, memoir, Minneapolis, Minnesota, Minnesota Nice, nonfiction books, police brutality, political history, public policy, race relations, redlining, segregation, social commentary, social justice, structural racism, systemic racism, The Atlantic, The Cruelty of Nice Folks, The Great Migration, Tim Walz, U.S. history, urban history

Justin Ellis explains why Minneapolis was America’s raw racial nerve

BOOKS Featured Stories Politics

R.I.P. Morality in Publishing

August 6, 2025August 18, 2025 Rebecca Kurson 0 Comments Alia Habib, Benjamin Moser, Doubleday, Iowa Writers Workshop, Jean Said Makdisi, Maya Sulkin, Outsider Editions, PLO, Sally Rooney, The Atlantic, The Wall Street Journal, Thomas Gebremedhin

Thomas Gebremedhin, head of Doubleday imprint, tells murdered woman to ‘rest in piss’

Z100

DOCUMENTARY FILM

When Radio was Dumb and Fun

February 23, 2022February 23, 2022 William Schwartz 0 Comments Joe Rogan, Madonna, Scott Shannon, The Atlantic, Worst to First, Z100

‘Worst to First’ documentary chronicles the legend of NYC’s Z100

Good place finale

The Good Place’s Suicide Solution

February 4, 2020February 4, 2020 G.L. Ford 6 Comments David Lynch, Eraserhead, The Atlantic, The Good Place, The Pixies, Vulture

In Heaven, Apparently, Everything is Fine

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Comedy Featured Stories FILM

‘The Invite’ Prompt Was — Bergman, But Make It Funny!

July 11, 2026July 14, 2026 Laura Pruden 1

Olivia Wilde directs and acts in a comedy about love and marriage in middle-age

Featured Stories FILM

Traumatized Young Woman?

July 10, 2026July 14, 2026 Neal Pollack 1

Featured Stories FILM

‘Reading Lolita in Tehran’ With the Revolutionary Guard

July 8, 2026July 10, 2026 William Schwartz 0

BOOKS Featured Stories

The Long, Poisonous Roots of Conspiracy Theories

July 8, 2026July 10, 2026 Gordon Haber 0

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