The Whimsy and Heartbreak of America’s Garage Sales
For $100, I bought bric-a-brac that explains a nation.
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Photo-illustration by Colin Hunter I Found It: The Best Free Restaurant Bread in America
Thirteen thousand miles. Infinite contenders. One beautiful loaf.
Hugo Yu for The Atlantic Pennies Are Trash Now
The government has no plan for America’s 300 billion pennies.
Illustration by The Atlantic The Louvre Heist Is Terrific
Here was a dreamy little crime in which no one really got hurt.
Illustration by Akshita Chandra / The Atlantic You Have No Idea How Hard It Is to Be a Reenactor
Benedict Arnold’s boot wouldn’t come off, and other hardships from my weekend in the Revolutionary War.
Scott Rossi for The Atlantic An Innocent Abroad in Mark Twain’s Paris
My quest for a true literary experience resulted in choucroute, a surprise organ feast, an epiphany at the Louvre, existential dread, and a rowboat.
Photograph by Benjamin Malapris for The Atlantic
