The AtlanticShort Stories What Novelists Can Learn From Playwrights verified_publisherThe Atlantic - Amy Weiss-MeyerEditor’s Note: Read Brontez Purnell’s new short story, “Early Retirement.” “Early Retirement” is taken from Brontez Purnell’s forthcoming novel-in-stories, 100 Boyfriends (available on February 2). To...
The AtlanticNorthern California Early Retirement verified_publisherThe Atlantic - Brontez PurnellEditor’s Note: Read an interview with Brontez Purnell about his writing process. He had adopted this insane new beauty practice of rubbing Preparation H on the bags under his eyes. He was trying to scrub...
The AtlanticLatin America My Sister Was Disappeared 43 Years Ago verified_publisherThe Atlantic - Daniel LoedelA casualty of Argentina’s so-called Dirty War, Isabel haunted my childhood like a ghost. Then I started searching for her. The report from the Argentine Forensic Anthropology Team included 20 photos of...
The AtlanticLiterature A Word on Statistics verified_publisherThe Atlantic - Wisława SzymborskaA poem by Wisława Szymborska, published in The Atlantic in 1997 In “On Statistics,” Wisława Szymborska takes the language of data, with its air of easy certainty, and uses it to measure some of the messiest,...
The AtlanticPlaywrights The Books Briefing: Humor, Mined From the Absurd verified_publisherThe Atlantic - Kate CrayThe world sometimes seems dark. Humor, mined from the absurd, can help us see another side of the pain. That sensibility animates the author Paul Auster’s memoir Hand to Mouth, which follows his early...
