The Pulitzer Prize–winning playwright Annie Baker has long been a master of silence; her work delights in long, sometimes torturous...
Rene Solomon
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In July 2020, Lisa Lucas was hired as the publisher of Pantheon and Schocken Books, prestigious imprints of Penguin Random...
Professional athletes are now playing sports in a gamblers’ world, and it isn’t going well for them. In April, the...
Recently, an old friend of mine from elementary school ran a hand over my bookshelf, stopped, and said, “You stole...
I stepped out of the darkness of a weeknight movie into spring dusk to a curb’s edge under rose-gray light....
This is an edition of The Atlantic Daily, a newsletter that guides you through the biggest stories of the day,...
In 1957, Ladies’ Home Journal printed a letter from a reader, identified solely as “Registered Nurse,” imploring the publication to...
Many teens and adults use the word addictive when describing social-media sites, as if the apps themselves are laced with...
Why have theBritish come for America’s media? Not only is Emma Tucker shaking things up, to howls of indignation, at...