Folk Culture

This is an edition of The Atlantic Daily, a newsletter that guides you through the biggest stories of the day,...

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...

A lot can change in eight years. In the summer of 2016, J. D. Vance, writing in this magazine, characterized...