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What the U.S. Could Learn From an Irish Theater

December 23, 2025

A historic photo of the Abbey Theater

The Art of Airing Your Dirty Laundry

December 16, 2025

Color-treated image of Lily Allen

The Atlantic Daily

An Absurdist Film About the American Dream

Álex Maroño Porto

December 14, 2025

Julio Torres sits at a desk with a comically large lightbulb and pushpin

Frank Gehry’s Best Work Was Not His Flashiest

Carolina A. Miranda

December 8, 2025

Frank Gehry in front of his home.

The Long History of the Hamnet Myth

December 1, 2025

A black-and-white sketch of two men wrestling at a doorway, with a ghostly knight standing to the right

Make Culture Weird Again

November 25, 2025

a figure trying to run away from dilapidated and tattered symbols of pop culture

The 2025 Atlantic Gift Guide

November 19, 2025

composite illustration of various gifts

A Generational Portrait That Actually Says Something New

November 17, 2025

a diptych featuring a silhoutte in a painting studio and a woman holding a camera

Patti Smith’s Family Secrets

Amy Weiss-Meyer

December 2025 Issue

detail of black-and-white photo of dark-haired woman in room with tapestries hanging on wall

The Atlantic Daily

Seven Heist Movies for Your Weekend

October 26, 2025

A still from Inside Man showing Clive Owen in a bank vault

The Worst Art Thief in America

October 23, 2025

My Life in Ambigrammia

Douglas Hofstadter

October 3, 2025

The word ambigram written in red

A Truly Great Statue of a Sports Hero

August 30, 2025

A photo-illustration of a statue of Arthur Ashe set against a green background

If the University of Chicago Won’t Defend the Humanities, Who Will?

Tyler Austin Harper

August 26, 2025

photo illustration of a bust and a graduation cap

Why So Many MIT Students Are Writing Poetry

August 15, 2025

Abstract illustration featuring swipes of red, blue, pink, and black.

The Woman Who Perfected Flower Painting

September 2025 Issue

detail from still-life oil painting of flowers and grapes with butterfly and stone arch in background

A Love Letter to Music Listings

July 27, 2025

Magazine page folded like a map with a holes cut out in the shape of a movie camera, music note and paintbrush

Time-Travel Thursdays

Who’s Afraid of Being Middlebrow?

July 10, 2025

Nobody Cares If Music Is Real Anymore

July 4, 2025

Distorted image of a rock band in silhouette, seen on a monitor

Book Recommendations

What to Read When You’re Ready to Say No

June 9, 2025

A painting of a woman sitting on a bed looking out the window

How to Look at Paul Gauguin

July 2025 Issue

Painted stylized self-portrait of man's face with dark hair and mustache, surrounded by vines, fruit, and orange and yellow fields of color.

Now I Know What My Mother Was Saying

Elizabeth Bruenig

May 11, 2025

An image of pink carnations tucked in an envelope.

Is This the Worst-Ever Era of American Pop Culture?

Spencer Kornhaber

June 2025 Issue

An image showing guitars melting in a dreamy desert landscape

Joan Didion’s Books Should Have Been Enough

Lynn Steger Strong

April 21, 2025

Illustration of a photograph seen in pieces through circles cut out of a yellow field.

The Dark Weirdness of R. Crumb

Black-and-white excerpts from various comic panels against a red background

The Comic-Book Artist Who Mastered Space and Time

April 9, 2025

series of black squares with Jules Feiffer's face

Who Needs Intimacy?

illustration of woman with dark hair wearing yellow dress falling backwards into the arms of same woman in yellow dress with dark hair, on reddish-brown background

Atlantic Intelligence

Hayao Miyazaki’s AI Nightmare

March 28, 2025

A still from Kiki's Delivery Service with a green tint

The Man Who Owned 181 Renoirs

April 2025 Issue

photo of the backs of two people looking at a wall of symmetrically arranged paintings including Seurat's "Models" and Cézanne's "The Card Players"

The Rise of the Anti-Fan

March 2, 2025

Illustration of Johanne Sacreblu and Karla Sofia Gascon

Let Them Eat Art?

Laura Barrón-López

February 28, 2025

Abstract image of painting frames and a U.S. embassy

America Now Has a Minister of Culture

February 25, 2025

A photo of John F. Kennedy, Jr. and a silhouette of Donald Trump superimposed on a photo of the Kennedy Center.

Trump’s Conquest of the Kennedy Center Is Accelerating

Michael Scherer and Ashley Parker

February 8, 2025

A silhouette of Donald Trump descending stairs

Trump Takes Over the Kennedy Center

Michael Scherer and Ashley Parker

February 7, 2025

Black-and-white photo of the Kennedy Center

What Christopher Hitchens Understood About the Parthenon

February 4, 2025

Collage of photographs of marble sculptures and pieces of the Parthenon building, connected with red lines

A Novelist Who Looks Into the Dark

March 2025 Issue

illustration with sketched portraits of Ali Smith with multicolored marks and scribbles