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- Indexed articles, last 90 days
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- Latest publication
- Sep 8, 2026
- Outlet visibility, for The Atlantic
- Top 10K sites
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- Jul 24, 2026
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The Novel That Looks Death in the Eye (opens the original)
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The human brain has a method for dealing with the intrinsic fear of death. Terror-management theory, which builds on the work of the cultural anthropologist Ernest Becker, explains that the psyche handles this fear in a variety of ways. Many people either escape reality or adopt a belief system that promises immortality: so on the one hand, sex, drugs, or entertainment; on the other, religion, fame, or careerism. Or we might immerse ourselves in family, or culture—something that imbues life with
The High Priestess of the Ordinary (opens the original)
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Committed anxious types like me rarely find a poem opening as enticing as this one from the late Mary Oliver: I worried a lot. Will the garden grow, will the rivers flow in the right direction, will the earth turn Why yes, I have worried about that: Will the natural order of things suddenly turn against itself? And what can I, a small, unremarkable being, do to fix it? The poem’s troubles go on to cover aging, illness, regret. And then, with a sigh, it resolves itself. “Finally I saw that worryi
Why So Much Millennial Fiction Is Boring (opens the original)
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Perhaps every generation believes that it is unsuited to its own era. As an elder Millennial, I can’t help but see how perfectly primed my cohort was for feelings of inadequacy and distress. Raised on the standard American diet of promise and progress, many in my micro-generation arrived in high school just in time for the Columbine shootings to undermine our sense of safety. As many of us entered the age of military fitness, the Twin Towers fell and the United States embarked on a forever war.
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