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Montserrat Roig’s classic novel captures Barcelona on the cusp of unimaginable change.

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Panelists on Washington Week With The Atlantic joined to discuss rising oil price, potential shortages, and more.

The Oscar-nominated Sirāt explores the mixed experience of looking for transcendence on the dance floor.

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We would be entering a completely different world,” Meghan O’Sullivan, the director of the Geopolitics of Energy Project at ...

Speaking with George Packer at the New Orleans Book Festival, the author was eager to return to the subject of fiction.

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Barnes & Noble was once the avatar for sinister big-box stores on the march against independent businesses. In 1998’s You’ve Got Mail, Tom Hanks plays an executive at Foxbooks, a thinly disguised ...

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