The Atlantic Out Loud

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  • The Not at All Funny Life of Mark Twain

    Ron Chernow’s biography dwells more on the wreck of a man than on his sublimely comic work.

    By Graeme Wood

    From the ⁠June 2025 issue⁠.

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    21 min
  • We’re All Living in a Carl Hiaasen Novel

    In the mangroves with Florida’s poet of excess and grift

    By Amy Weiss-Meyer

    From the ⁠June 2025 issue⁠.

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    27 min
  • Mail by Mule

    Transporting letters and packages to the village of Supai requires a feat of logistics, horsemanship, and carefully placed hooves.

    By Sarah Yager

    From the ⁠June 2025 issue⁠.

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    12 min
  • From Hollywood to Hitler

    In a new novel, Daniel Kehlmann considers why the director G. W. Pabst worked with the Nazis.

    By Gal Beckerman

    From the ⁠June 2025 issue⁠.

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    15 min
  • The Day the Music Died

    Meet the critics who believe the arts are in terminal decline.

    By Spencer Kornhaber

    From the ⁠June 2025 issue⁠.

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    50 min
  • Donald Trump Is Enjoying This

    Donald Trump believes he’s invincible. But the cracks are beginning to show.

    By Ashley Parker and Michael Scherer

    From the ⁠June 2025 issue⁠.

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    1 hr 13 min
  • That ’70s Feeling

    Trump’s tariffs could cause stagflation for the first time in decades. It may go on for a long, long time.

    By David Frum

    From the June 2025 issue.

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    15 min
  • Everything We Once Believed In

    When I joined the conservative movement in the 1980s, there were two types of people: those who cared earnestly about ideas, and those who wanted only to shock the left. The reactionary fringe has won.

    By David Brooks

    From the May 2025 issue.

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    34 min
  • What Is Classical Music?

    The term is applied to radically different compositions across more than 1,000 years of history. We need a better definition.

    By Matthew Aucoin

    From the May 2025 issue.

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    16 min
  • The World Porn Made

    It colored our ambitions, our sense of self, our relationships, our bodies, our work, and our art.

    By Sophie Gilbert

    From the May 2025 issue.

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    44 min

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