The AtlanticStephen King The Books Briefing: How Horror Stories Empower Kids verified_publisherThe Atlantic - Kate CrayWhen he was just 4 years old, the author and illustrator Maurice Sendak caught a glance of a horrifying photo depicting the remains of Charles Lindbergh’s murdered son. A mutated version of the image decades...
The AtlanticMystery Novel How a Great Crime Writer Came to Imitate Himself verified_publisherThe Atlantic - Paul Franz“The appeal of the conventional crime novel,” the Irish writer John Banville once suggested, “is the sense of completion it offers.” Unlike life, bounded by the unremembered and—strictly speaking—unlived...
The AtlanticBrian Stelter The Books Briefing: Can Democracy Survive Without Journalism? verified_publisherThe Atlantic - Mary Stachyra LopezThroughout the summer of 1916, “tired of being kicked and cursed,” tens of thousands of African Americans migrated from the South to the North in hopes of a better life—inspired in no small part by the...
The AtlanticPoetry Blursday Blues verified_publisherThe Atlantic - Marcus WickerA poem for Sunday The virus has created its own clock, and in coronatime, there is less demarcation between a day and a week, a weekday and a weekend, the morning and night, the present and the recent...
The AtlanticBooks The Books Briefing: The Writers Whom History Forgot verified_publisherThe Atlantic - Kate CrayIn 1928, Gay Neck, which depicts the adventures of a young boy and his carrier pigeon, became the first novel written by a person of color to win the prestigious Newbury Medal. Yet nearly a century later,...
