The Atlantic Out Loud
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Oct 19, 2021 • 48min
A Peer-Reviewed Portrait of Suffering - Daniel Engber - November 2021
James and Lindsay Sulzer have spent their careers developing technologies to help people recover from disease or injury. Their daughter’s freak accident changed their work—and lives—forever. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Oct 19, 2021 • 40min
Slackers of the World, Unite! - Ellen Cushing - November 2021
Why employees love the software, and bosses don’t Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Oct 19, 2021 • 30min
W. G. Sebald Ransacked Jewish Lives for His Fictions - Judith Shulevitz - November 2021
Why did he lie about his sources? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Oct 19, 2021 • 53min
‘I Don’t Know That I Would Even Call It Meth Anymore’ - Sam Quinones - November 2021
Different chemically than it was a decade ago, the drug is creating a wave of severe mental illness and worsening America’s homelessness problem. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Oct 19, 2021 • 15min
The Largest Autocracy on Earth - Adrienne LaFrance - November 2021
Facebook is acting like a hostile foreign power; it’s time we treated it that way. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Oct 19, 2021 • 20min
The Nasty Logistics of Returning Your Too-Small Pants - Amanda Mull - November 2021
What happens to the stuff you order online after you send it back? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Oct 19, 2021 • 3min
Climbing the Economic Ladder in Fresno, California - José Vadi - November 2021
One family’s journey into the middle class Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Oct 19, 2021 • 10min
Why Did Dostoyevsky Write Crime and Punishment? - James Parker - November 2021
He had no choice. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Oct 19, 2021 • 15min
Jonathan Franzen’s Best Book Yet - Becca Rothfeld - November 2021
At last he’s put aside the pyrotechnics and gone all in on his great theme: the American family. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Oct 19, 2021 • 17min
Human History Gets a Rewrite - William Deresiewicz - November 2021
A brilliant new account upends bedrock assumptions about 30,000 years of change. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
