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Updated Sep 20, 2026 · 15 entries
Everything · Sep 20, 2026

“Garden,” by Melissa Broder

“I was in Eden. God’s light / Tongued the leaves.”

Magazine / Poems
Everything · Sep 20, 2026

Sarah Anderson Reads “Dark Horse”

The author reads her story from the September 28, 2026, issue of the magazine.

Podcast / The Writer’s Voice
Everything · Sep 20, 2026

Sharon Horgan, Autofiction Auteur

The TV writer-actor on the sandwich generation, finding love onscreen, and growing older with her shows.

Culture / The New Yorker Interview
Everything · Sep 20, 2026

Sarah Anderson on Relief from Intrusive Thoughts

The author discusses her story “Dark Horse.”

Books / This Week in Fiction
Everything · Sep 20, 2026

“Dark Horse,” by Sarah Anderson

At least once a day I press the Thought like a bruise, and if I don’t it eventually starts to play anyway.

Magazine / Fiction
Everything · Sep 20, 2026

“Debt,” by Daniel Poppick

“What debt is this whose currency is sleep?”

Magazine / Poems
Everything · Sep 20, 2026

Restaurant Review: Ugly Baby

The beloved Brooklyn restaurant is back to serve a city in the thrall of Thai spiciness.

Culture / The Food Scene
Everything · Sep 20, 2026

Our A.I. Problem

Why can’t the people who produced the technology, which has already shown that a different world is possible, just do the things that would prevent extinction?

Magazine / CommentNews / The Lede
The Atlantic · Sep 19, 2026

Kara Swisher: AI Isn’t Going to Destroy Humanity—But the People Building It Might

The longtime tech journalist says she’s seen Silicon Valley make the same mistakes again and again.

Everything · Sep 19, 2026

The Thomas and Kavanaugh Hearings Restaged as a Theatre of Fact

“The Ford/Hill Project,” a documentary play, may capture recent events, but it’s a product of the present: activist theatre in a moment when the idea of civic urgency is losing purchase.

Culture / Critic’s Notebook
The Atlantic · Sep 19, 2026

What AI Anxiety Looks Like in China

A top-down tech revolution is harder to manage than a bottom-up one.

The Atlantic · Sep 19, 2026

Emily Wilson Can’t Let The Odyssey Go

The translator spoke about her desire to retranslate the epic—and her harsh review of the recent film.

The Atlantic · Sep 19, 2026

Treat AI Like a Normal Crisis

What if the doomers and skeptics are both a little bit right?

The Marginalian · Sep 19, 2026

Edward Abbey on How to Live and How to Die

The summer after graduating high school, knowing he would face conscription into the military as soon as his eighteenth birthday arrived, Edward Abbey (January 29, 1927–March 14, 1989) set out to get to know the land he was being asked to die for. He hitchhiked and hopped freight trains, rode in ramshackle busses and walked sweltering miles across the American Southwest. Upon returning home to Pennsylvania, he was promptly drafted and spent two reluctant years as a military police officer in occupied Italy. Defiant of authority and opposed to the war, he was demoted twice and finally honorably discharged “by… read article

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The Atlantic · Sep 19, 2026

The Republicans Distancing Themselves From Trump

Panelists joined to discuss how some Republicans are responding to the president ahead of the midterms.