Visibility is one thing. Actually mustering the power to fundamentally rearrange society — that is something else.

Stephen King, Zadie Smith, and Michael Pollan are among thousands of writers whose copyrighted works are being used to train large language models.

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As the Ukrainian president captivates the world with his bravery, he offers a reminder of the inroads Eastern and Central European Jews have made in overcoming their status as perpetual outsiders.

Whether you want to dip into a novel that evokes Midge Maisel’s New York City or pick up a sparkling history of 1950s comedy, we’ve got some recommendations for you.

In quarantine, people are inadvertently exposing their reading habits — embarrassing, surprising and impressive.

After the brutal violence committed by Hamas against Israeli civilians, I looked around for my friends on the left and felt alone.

A new generation discovers the poet laureate of puberty.

The wildly popular series was marketed to girls. But its nuanced depiction of friendship provided a 9-year-old boy with an education that “boy books” did not.

He was so damaged, and yet he showed us so much of the world.

The biographer Robert Caro and his editor, Robert Gottlieb, have been arguing with each other for 50 years.

Despite the hopelessness after Uvalde, we’re closer to understanding the kind of social movement that might actually affect gun reform.

Just as the mind recoils at the sight of a single book burned, the spilled blood of an author inspires revulsion.

In his new memoir, the former vice president selectively edits his four years with Trump to avoid a necessary reckoning.

The southern travelogue is a genre with a long history. These examples helped me write my own.

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The personal papers of one of World War II’s earliest historians reveal an obsession with how Nazis distorted the German language.

The biographer Robert Caro and his editor, Robert Gottlieb, have been arguing with each other for 50 years.

And he’s now sitting in a prison camp.

A new report suggests what some have long suspected: One of the world’s most famous poets may have been murdered.

The Atlantic’s writers have chosen books to help you understand the stakes of the midterms.

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The Harvard scholar Maria Tatar has made a career of studying fairy tales and folklore. Now she is taking aim at Joseph Campbell and showing us the women he left out of the story.

I saw rage and grief in Israel, but little that could lead to political change.

Seven agonizing nights aboard the Icon of the Seas

An open letter signed by famous writers decrying Israel’s response to the Hamas attack shows a startling moral obtuseness.

Michelle Burford has carved out a niche helping famous Black women like Cicely Tyson, Alicia Keys and Gabby Douglas write their memoirs. But she can tell many kinds of stories, including her own.

A reading list of works by perennial favorites, including this year's awardee, Annie Ernaux

The German writer Jenny Erpenbeck cuts through dogma, fractures time, and preserves rubble.

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The decision by Elizabeth Gilbert to indefinitely delay the publication of her novel is a wrongheaded attempt to help the Ukrainian cause.

Svetlana Alexievich’s newly translated oral history, “Last Witnesses,” presents the recollections of Russians who experienced World War II as children.

I don’t choose them; they choose me.

In the 1940s, a series of books tried to use the conventions of detective fiction to expose the degree of prejudice in postwar America.

In her new memoir, Streisand describes the risks involved in making "Yentl."

The Atlantic’s books editor prescribes these titles as antidotes to the quick and dirty ways people are communicating on social media.

Two new books, “How to Disappear,” by Akiko Busch, and “Silence,” by Jane Brox, explore the benefits of tuning out.

Focusing on anything, let alone a book, has been hard lately. These are the titles that reignited our love for literature.

In Walter Isaacson’s new biography, the focus on psychology diverts us from the questions we should be asking about the world’s richest man.

PEN America has now canceled its annual World Voices festival, after calling off its literary-awards ceremony last week. Can it survive?

Does the patron saint of political violence have anything to teach us today?

Atlantic Editions will publish a series of books by Atlantic writers.

“It seemed to be extremely unlikely that I would ever have this particular event to deal with in my life.”

A new book recounts the first year of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine from the ground up.

Even behind bars, the dissident leader was a threat to the corrupt Russian dictator.

Focusing on anything, let alone a book, has been hard lately. These are the titles that reignited our love for literature.

Israeli demonstrators have worn the mantle of patriotism, and it’s worked.

With the death this week of David McCullough, we lost an author who understood how to find the stories that made history feel relevant and real.

The Atlantic’s writers and editors have picked books to transport you, surprise you, and inspire you.

In lockdown and through our screens, we’re reminded of all that’s special and strange about group reading: a solitary, private act made public.

A landmark novel from the island of Guam is both a brutal story of war and a beautiful act of resurrection.

What happens when free-speech absolutists flinch

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In “A World on the Wing,” Scott Weidensaul describes the splendor of birds that can span continents in their flight, and also all the ways they are threatened.

In her new book about facial recognition, Kashmir Hill shows how our expectations of privacy have been rewritten over the past few years.