The Atlantic Out Loud
Professionally narrated articles from The Atlantic—just for subscribers.
Latest episodes
Dec 22, 2022 • 4min
An Ode to Mood Swings -- James Parker -- January/February 2023
If you don’t like me now, just give it an hour. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Dec 22, 2022 • 15min
Why Read Literary Biography? -- Lauren Groff -- January/February 2023
What Shirley Hazzard’s life can, and can’t, tell us about her fiction Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Dec 22, 2022 • 27min
The Prophecy of The Waste Land -- James Parker -- January/February 2023
One hundred years after the publication of The Waste Land, its vision has never been more terrifying. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Dec 22, 2022 • 21min
Cormac McCarthy Has Never Been Better -- Graeme Wood -- January/February 2023
His two new novels are the pinnacle of a controversial career. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Dec 22, 2022 • 18min
The Reinvention of the Catholic Church -- Paul Elie -- January/February 2023
Scandals have taken a toll, and faith is flagging in Europe and the U.S. But Catholicism isn’t on the wane—it’s changing in influential ways. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Dec 22, 2022 • 2min
The Anabasis of Godspeed -- Ishion Hutchinson -- January/February 2023
“The Anabasis of Godspeed” is excerpted from a forthcoming book-length poem, School of Instructions. A memorial to the experience of West Indian soldiers serving in British regiments during World War I, the poem is also the narrative of Godspeed, a young boy living in rural Jamaica in the 1990s. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Dec 22, 2022 • 41min
Can a Building Be Too Tall? -- Bianca Bosker -- January/February 2023
The rise and rise and rise of the supertall skyscraper Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Dec 22, 2022 • 25min
The Myth of the Frontier Won’t Die -- Noah Hawley -- January/February 2023
In our popular culture and in our politics, we’re returning to the Old West. The strong survive and the weak surrender, and differences are resolved at the end of a gun. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Dec 22, 2022 • 48min
The Eureka Theory of History Is Wrong -- Derek Thompson -- January/February 2022
The real reason American progress has stalled Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Dec 22, 2022 • 48min
Why Is She Like This? -- Elaina Plott Calabro -- January/February 2023
On the ground in Marjorie Taylor Greene's alternate universe Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
