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Illustration by Akshita Chandra / The Atlantic A Novel About the Benefits—And Costs—Of Being a Rebel
Dave Eggers’s career has long balanced two major impulses. In his new book, he lets them wrestle on the page.
Illustration by Anna Resmini When Scarcity Blurs the Line Between Right and Wrong
Megha Majumdar’s second novel imagines how climate disaster might scramble our sense of morality.
Illustration by Akshita Chandra / The Atlantic A Novelist’s Cure for the ‘Loneliness Epidemic’
Eloghosa Osunde’s new book offers a vision of kinship for a world that is steadily growing more disconnected.
Illustration by Diana Ejaita In Search of a Faith Beyond Religion
Scholastique Mukasonga’s Sister Deborah suggests that some people must look outside the traditional bounds of Christianity to find true spiritual freedom.
Chester Higgins / Bruce Silverstein Gallery Entitlement Is Not an Identity. It’s a Trap.
In Rumaan Alam’s latest novel, a Black woman’s quest for status runs up against her blind spots.
Illustration by Ben Kothe / The Atlantic. Source: Getty. A Family Story About Colonialism and Its Aftereffects
Claire Messud tells a complicated and ambivalent tale about her French family’s history in Algeria.
Illustration by Gabriela Pesqueira / The Atlantic. Sources: Georges Melet / Getty; Jean Tesseyre / Getty. Writing About Yourself Isn’t Inherently Selfish
For Édouard Louis, revisiting the past is an act of survival.
Christopher Anderson / Magnum A Redacted Past Slowly Emerges
This year’s winner of the National Book Award for Fiction, Justin Torres’s Blackouts is a complex story about recovering the history of erased and ignored gay lives.
Illustration by The Atlantic. Source: Jupiterimages / Getty. Colson Whitehead Loses the Plot
Crook Manifesto is both powered and limited by its most absorbing characteristic: the author’s voice.
Photo-illustration by Joanne Imperio / The Atlantic. Sources: Allan Tannenbaum / Getty; Anthony Barboza / Getty; Bettmann / Getty; Donaldson Collection / Getty; Walter Leporati / Getty.
