<em>The Atlantic</em>’s Favorite Images of the Year

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<em>The Atlantic</em>’s Favorite Images of the Year

Illustration by Kimberly Elliott
Want to Change Your Personality? Have a Baby.

Illustration by Kimberly Elliott
Want to Change Your Personality? Have a Baby.

Illustration by Armando Veve
Why Americans Can’t Sleep

Photograph by Sela Shiloni
The Director Who Fell in Love With Losers

Photograph by Sela Shiloni
The Director Who Fell in Love With Losers

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The Tech Novel’s Warning for a Screen-Addled Age

Illustration by Akshita Chandra
Merle Oberon Was Way, Way Ahead of Her Time

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Merle Oberon Was Way, Way Ahead of Her Time

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You Have No Idea How Hard It Is to Be a Reenactor

Illustration by Nicolás Ortega
The Army of God Comes out of the Shadow

Photograph by Lelanie Foster
Chimamanda Adichie Is a Hopeless Romantic

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Chimamanda Adichie Is a Hopeless Romantic

Illustration by Hannah Robinson
The Publishing Industry’s Most Swoon-Worthy Genre

Mailman 1 edit.png — Illustration by Hannah Robinson
The Publishing Industry’s Most Swoon-Worthy Genre

Illustrations by Andy Rementer

2025 Summer Reading Guide

Photograph by Evan Jenkins
RFK Jr.’s Worst Nightmare

Illustration by Chris W. Kim
How One Animal Divided Europe

Illustration by Chris W. Kim
How One Animal Divided Europe

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The Place Where I Grew Up Is Gone

Illustration by Max Guther
The Anti-Social Century Cover

Illustration by Max Guther
The Anti-Social Century Cover

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The Invention of Judd Apatow

Photograph by Maggie Shannon
The Invention of Judd Apatow

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Inside the Exclusive, Obsessive, Surprisingly Litigious World of Luxury Fitness

Photograph by Caroline Tompkins
Inside the Exclusive, Obsessive, Surprisingly Litigious World of Luxury Fitness

Painting by Joe McKendry
The Unfinished Revolution

Illustration by Dale Stephanos
‘I Run the Country and the World’

Illustration by Dale Stephanos
‘I Run the Country and the World’

Illustration by Matteo Giuseppe Pani
AI Is Coming for YouTube Creators

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How Progressives Froze the American Dream

Illustration by Javier Jaén
How Progressives Froze the American Dream

Illustration by Kristina Tzekova
The Myth of a Loneliness Epidemic

Photograph by Moises Saman
Can One Man Hold Syria Together?

Photograph by Alice Zoo
Chasing le Carré in Corfu

Photograph by Alice Zoo
Chasing le Carré in Corfu

2025-10-21-Beckert-everyday nudity.jpg — Illustration by Tim Enthoven
The End of Naked Locker Rooms

Illustration by Tim Enthoven
The End of Naked Locker Rooms

Illustration by Mike McQuade
How To Disappear

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How To Disappear

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Hanif Kureishi’s Relentlessly Revealing Memoir

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Fast times and Mean Girls

Photo-Illustration by Colin Hunter
Fast times and Mean Girls

Photograph by Daniel Dorsa
My Favorite Trails Are Destroyed

Illustration by Marine Buffard
What We Gain by Forgetting

Illustration by Matt Rota
A PTSD Therapy ‘Seemed Too Good to Be True’

Illustration by Lucy Jones
Did You Get Your Cooties Shot?

Illustration by Lucy Jones
Did You Get Your Cooties Shot?

Video by Arjun Srivatsa

TikTok’s Near-Death Experience

Illustration by Ben Kothe

My Car Is Becoming A Brick

Illustration by Lucy Murray Willis
Faith

Illustration by Lucy Murray Willis
Faith

Illustration by Dadu Shin
My Shipwreck Story

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Zamboni

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Zamboni

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The Talented Mr. Vance

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Who Needs Intimacy?

Illustration by Isabella Cotier
Who Needs Intimacy?

Photograph by Julia Sellmann
Why Do Collaborators Do It?

Photograph by Julia Sellmann
Why Do Collaborators Do It?

Illustration by Matteo Giuseppe Pani
The Coming Democratic Civil War

Illustration by Matteo Giuseppe Pani
The Coming Democratic Civil War

Illustration by Stephan Dybus
The Agony of Texting With Men

Illustration by Stephan Dybus
The Agony of Texting With Men

Illustration by Daniele Castellano
Philip Pullman’s Anti-Escapist Fantasy

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Philip Pullman’s Anti-Escapist Fantasy

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The One Book Everyone Should Read

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Inside the Very Expensive, Extremely Overwhelming, Engineered Fun of Theme Parks

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