~best-of-the-atlanti | Bookmarks (1104)
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Hollywood’s Most Pessimistic Blockbuster Franchise
The Planet of the Apes movies keep evolving—for the better.
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The New Sound of Sexual Frustration
Billie Eilish’s new album sustains a mood of longing that is very now.
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The Voters Who Don’t Really Know Donald Trump
Many of this year’s first-time voters were too young to remember what Trump was like in...
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A Powerful Indictment of the Art World
Hari Kunzru’s new novel deflates the idea of an artistic life as a noble pursuit.
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Higher Education Isn’t the Enemy
Those who threaten academic freedom, from outside or inside campus, are threatening higher education itself—to America’s...
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The MAGA Memory Hole
Many Republicans continue their collective amnesia about Trump.
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The Lynching That Sent My Family North
How we rediscovered the tragedy in Mississippi that ushered us into the Great Migration
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The Bird-Flu Host We Should Worry About
Pigs have a track record of hosting flu viruses that jump to us.
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A French Reproach to Our Big, Baggy American Memoirs
In her slim books, the French writer Colombe Schneck stares honestly at her own life, without...
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Can a ’90s Cult Classic Save the Comic-Book Movie?
The engrossing darkness of The Crow
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How to Live in a Digital City
What we can learn from real-life urbanization to improve online living
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New 9/11 Evidence Points to Deep Saudi Complicity
Two decades of U.S. policy appear to be rooted in a mistaken understanding of what happened...