The Atlantic Out Loud
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Sep 18, 2018 • 4min
Big In … Seoul: Stress Cafés - Uri Friedman - October 2018
New places of respite in one of the world’s most overworked, underslept cities. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Sep 18, 2018 • 4min
The Killer in the Cubicle - Rene Chun - October 2018
Office workers murder each other more than you might think. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Sep 18, 2018 • 11min
Why Comcast Sent Me Pizza - Ian Bogost - October 2018
The logic of friendly #brands Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Sep 18, 2018 • 11min
The Cartoon That Captures the Damaged American Male - James Parker - October 2018
Rick and Morty is a dialectic of masculinity unmoored. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Sep 18, 2018 • 18min
The Most Honest Book About Climate Change Yet - Nathaniel Rich - October 2018
William T. Vollmann’s latest opus is one of the most honest—and fatalistic—books about global warming yet written. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Sep 18, 2018 • 16min
The Brilliant, Playful, Bloodthirsty Raven - Helen Macdonald - October 2018
The birds at the Tower of London lend themselves to symbolic reading, but their reality is more fascinating. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Sep 18, 2018 • 14min
Nietzsche’s Guide to Better Living - Becca Rothfeld - October 2018
If philosophy can serve as therapy, it’s not by offering solace but by jolting the soul. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Sep 18, 2018 • 3min
The Gradual Disappearance of Jane Ashland Casts an Unlikely Spell -- Ann Hulbert -- October 2018
Nicolai Houm’s third novel unspools the mystery of a writer who abandons fiction and winds up alone on the top of a mountain in Norway. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Aug 14, 2018 • 1h 9min
How ICE Went Rogue - The Atlantic - Franklin Foer
A long-running inferiority complex, vast statutory power, a chilling new directive from the top—inside America’s unfolding immigration tragedy. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Aug 14, 2018 • 60min
What Really Killed the Dinosaurs? - The Atlantic - Bianca Bosker
A Princeton geologist has endured decades of ridicule for arguing that the fifth extinction was caused not by an asteroid but by a series of colossal volcanic eruptions. But she’s reopened that debate. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
