Books

An old newsroom quip has it that every story about the Middle East for the past 50 years could open with, “The region is, as ever, at a critical moment.”...

What should I read next? If only making that decision were simple: Recommendations abound online and off, but when you’re casting about for a new book, especially if you’re coming...

Spoilers ahead for The Summer I Turned Pretty season three. New York City’s Bryant Park is never a quiet place. But anyone walking by on July 16 probably heard even...

The English novelist E. M. Forster believed that people know the characters in the novels they read better than they know one another. In fiction, he argued, a character’s true...

As a kid, one of the highlights of my summer vacation was sitting underneath a tree in my grandmother’s backyard and getting lost in a book. I don’t get a...

The past 10 years have been among the most tumultuous for higher education since the student movements of the 1960s. The 2020s began with a wave of progressive fervor that...

NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! As a Hollywood leading man who made women swoon, it appeared that Clint Eastwood “wasn’t cut out for marriage.” The claim was...

This is an edition of The Atlantic Daily, a newsletter that guides you through the biggest stories of the day, helps you discover new ideas, and recommends the best in...

Gwyneth Paltrow felt “sad” when she learned Brad Pitt had married Jennifer Aniston, according to author Amy Odell’s new book “Gwyneth: The Biography.” During a September 2000 interview at the...

At Foreign Policy, summer isn’t just about beach reads (though we’re fond of those, too). It’s also a time to dig into new nonfiction titles that are critical to our...