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Kari Ferrell’s memoir is a zippy, intimate account of low-level trickery before the era of scams fully erupted.

Aria Aber’s debut about an Afghan German party girl in Berlin shows that there are plenty of ways to tell an outsider’s story.

America’s allies and enemies watched as Trump’s pick for defense secretary failed to quell concerns about his character and qualifications.

At his confirmation hearing, the defense-secretary nominee looked like a man who understood that the fix was in.

“Almost everything you can do to avoid the worst outcomes must take place long before that first spark.”

Kathy Ryan for New York Times Magazine | Courtesy of MSNBCJanuary 14, 2025, 9:17 AM ET Today The Atlantic is announcing the hire of Caity Weaver as a staff writer, who joins from The New York Times Magazine, and two new contributing writers: Jonathan Lemire, a co-host of the fourth hour of MSNBC’s Morning Joe, and A...

In her novels, the South Korean Nobel laureate returns again and again to her country’s bloody past.

Lily Tuck’s attempt to bring to life a victim of the Holocaust turns her into a prosecutor, not a novelist.

The theory that populist economic policies can win back the working class for Democrats has been tried, and it has failed.