The Atlantic Out Loud

The logic of friendly #brands

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Rick and Morty is a dialectic of masculinity unmoored.

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William T. Vollmann’s latest opus is one of the most honest—and fatalistic—books about global warming yet written.

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The birds at the Tower of London lend themselves to symbolic reading, but their reality is more fascinating.

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If philosophy can serve as therapy, it’s not by offering solace but by jolting the soul.

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Nicolai Houm’s third novel unspools the mystery of a writer who abandons fiction and winds up alone on the top of a mountain in Norway.

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A long-running inferiority complex, vast statutory power, a chilling new directive from the top—inside America’s unfolding immigration tragedy.

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A Princeton geologist has endured decades of ridicule for arguing that the fifth extinction was caused not by an asteroid but by a series of colossal volcanic eruptions. But she’s reopened that debate.

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Science suggests we’re hardwired to delude ourselves. Can we do anything about it?

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In more than a decade of arguing cases in court, I’ve witnessed the stubborn cultural biases female attorneys must navigate to simply do their jobs.

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