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Summer Reading List – Must-Read Books for Summer 2024

Summer Reading List – Must-Read Books for Summer 2024

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Summertime and the reading is easy…or at least, it should be! With so many tantalizing new titles hitting bookshelves, choosing your sunny season reads can feel like the literary equivalent of a kid set free in a candy store. Luckily, I’ve curated 14 absolute must-read book list for your summer 2024 reading pleasure. From heartwarming tales of self-discovery to mind-bending speculative fiction, juicy celebrity tell-alls to innovative works challenging gender norms, these unputdownable novels have it all. Get ready to fill your beach tote and binge away those languid summer days with this stellar list of books. A good summer read should be equal parts entertaining and thought-provoking. Garmus’ debut novel “Lessons in Chemistry” qualifies on both fronts, making it a no-brainer for any 2024 must-read list. Set in the socially-turbulent 1960s, this smart, slyly feminist story follows Elizabeth Zott, a trailblazing scientist whose popular cooking show becomes an unlikely platform to impart life lessons on gender equity and female empowerment. Garmus strikes the perfect balance between sharp social commentary, charming humor, and a deliciously …

An insightful and truly fun cooking show

An insightful and truly fun cooking show

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This is an edition of The Atlantic Daily, a newsletter that guides you through the biggest stories of the day, helps you discover new ideas, and recommends the best in culture. Sign up for it here. Welcome back to The Daily’s Sunday culture edition, in which one Atlantic writer or editor reveals what’s keeping them entertained. Today’s special guest is Matteo Wong, an associate editor who has written about the sci-fi legend Neal Stephenson, the perfection of the rice cooker, and America’s AI underclass. Matteo is a regular viewer of Binging With Babish, which offers fun and insightful recipes for famous fictional meals (such as the “Moistmaker” sandwich from Friends). He is also a contemplative museumgoer with a penchant for Monet’s water lilies, a dedicated reader of anything that has a Ted Chiang byline, and a superfan of Birdy, whose albums “denote different phases” of his life. First, here are three Sunday reads from The Atlantic: The Culture Survey: Matteo Wong A musical artist who means a lot to me: I’ve been listening to the …

The year’s best movies, TV shows, and books

The year’s best movies, TV shows, and books

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Spend time with our writers’ picks this weekend. Universal Pictures December 29, 2023, 5 PM ET This is an edition of The Atlantic Daily, a newsletter that guides you through the biggest stories of the day, helps you discover new ideas, and recommends the best in culture. Sign up for it here. This was the year of the sold-out stadium tour, double-feature mania, celebrity memoirs (and documentaries), and superhero fatigue. It was also the year of the Hollywood strike, controversy over book bans, and the rise of AI music. The Atlantic’s Culture team looked back on 2023 and compiled lists of the year’s best movies, TV shows, albums, books, and podcasts. Spend some time with their picks this weekend. First, here are three new stories from The Atlantic: Best of 2023 Dusty Deen for The Atlantic The 10 Best Films of 2023 By David Sims “I opted for a mix of old and new, small and giant … from a modest YouTube documentary to a near-billion-dollar-grossing dramatic extravaganza. The business is still figuring itself out, …

The Books Briefing: The Best Strategy for Late-December Reading

The Books Briefing: The Best Strategy for Late-December Reading

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At this time of the year, I try to resist the pressure to be productive. Found Image Holdings / Corbis / Getty December 8, 2023, 11 AM ET This is an edition of the Books Briefing, our editors’ weekly guide to the best in books. Sign up for it here. When the end of the year comes around, I know that I can count on taking multiple long, cross-country plane rides broken up by days’ worth of loafing on my parents’ or my in-laws’ couches. “Dead week,” as Helena Fitzgerald memorably calls the time from Christmas to New Year’s Day, is the perfect moment for aimless reading. “It is a time against ambition and against striving,” Fitzgerald writes. Lounge about, flip through a book, and let a story wrap itself around your shoulders. First, here are four new stories from The Atlantic’s book section: Unfortunately, there’s still a part of my brain that wants me to be using my time productively. Right now I’m staring at my bookshelf as I prepare to pack for the …

Americans Are Sleepwalking Through a National Emergency

Americans Are Sleepwalking Through a National Emergency

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This is an edition of The Atlantic Daily, a newsletter that guides you through the biggest stories of the day, helps you discover new ideas, and recommends the best in culture. Sign up for it here. The United States of America is facing a threat from a sometimes violent cult while a nuclear armed power wages war on the border of our closest allies. And yet, many Americans sleepwalk as if they are living in normal times instead of in an ongoing crisis. First, here are four new stories from The Atlantic: The Fragility of Freedom Americans have become accustomed to so much in public life that they would have once found shocking. But many of these events are not only shameful; they are a warning, a kind of static energy filling the air just before a lightning strike. America is in a state of emergency, yet few of its citizens seem to realize it. For example, a single senator, Tommy Tuberville of Alabama, has been holding up hundreds of military promotions for months, endangering …