The Super Bowl That Felt Like Destiny
The 51st NFL championship game saw an incredible win for the New England Patriots, who overcame a huge lead by the Atlanta Falcons in the final stretch.
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Projects
The Best of 2016
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Zak Bickel / Katie Martin / Paul Spella ... The Best Writing Advice of 2016
Highlights from 12 months of interviews with writers about their craft and the authors they love
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Doug McLean The Key to Writing a Mystery Is Asking the Perfect Question
The veteran author John Rechy discusses the powerful enigma of William Faulkner and the beauty of the unsolved narrative.
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Random House A Writer’s Turmoil in The Rules Do Not Apply
The journalist Ariel Levy has the rare gift of seeing herself with fierce, unforgiving clarity, and deploys prose to match in her memoir.
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Graham Roumieu What Was the Most Influential Film in History?
A big question
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Pencil
A poem
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Joe McKendry How Many Exclamation Points Do Great Writers Use?!
A very short book excerpt
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Renaud Vigourt The Sentimental Sadist
Ghosts and schmaltz haunt George Saunders’s first novel.
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Jack Hudson It’s Getting Harder to Believe in Silicon Valley
Awestruck visions of the tech industry have become less convincing than ever.
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YouTube / 84 Lumber The Super Bowl LI Ads Sold an Escape to the Future
This year, the overarching tone of the commercials was a desire to move forward.
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Adrees Latif / Reuters Lady Gaga Made America Spectacular Again
Her dazzling halftime show didn’t explicitly address politics but still delivered big messages.
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Marc Burckhardt Before Straight and Gay
The discreet, disorienting passions of the Victorian era
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Is It Patronizing to Say Football Players Are Exploited?
Daniel, a reader who describes himself as “a current football fan and an ex football player,” offers…
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Struggling to Be a Football Fan on Super Bowl Sunday
The following reader, Stephen, sent us a note a few days ago to revive the rich discussion we had back…
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NBC The Genius of Melissa McCarthy as Sean Spicer on Saturday Night Live
The actress made a surprise appearance as the White House press secretary.
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Michael Marsicano Can Megyn Kelly Escape Her Past?
Fox News’s former star has downplayed her full role in an ugly election.
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Sandy Huffaker / Reuters The Political Saga of Avocados
How does such a nutritious fruit have such a contentious record?
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Bettmann / Getty The Mary Tyler Moore Show and How Sitcoms Moved to the City
The 1970s comedy series was one of the first to recognize a new economic and social reality, in which white-collar residents increasingly supplanted the urban working class.
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AP James Baldwin and the Raised Fist: The Week in Pop-Culture Writing
Highlights from seven days of reading about arts and entertainment
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Bettmann / Getty A Saint for Difficult People
From bohemian to radical to Catholic activist, Dorothy Day devoted her life to the poor, however unlovable.
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UC San Diego Library The Atlantic's Week in Culture
A roundup of our recent writing on arts and entertainment
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Paramount Pictures Rings Would Be Better Off at the Bottom of a Well
This strange sequel comes 15 years after the terrifying American remake of a Japanese horror classic.
