CLINT SMITH

Readers respond to our December 2022 cover story and more.

In this episode of Radio Atlantic, staff writer Clint Smith talks about the complicated feelings he has for soccer, and which teams and players shaped his love of the sport.

Reconstructing the life of teenager whose name appears on our December cover

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Honorée Fanonne Jeffers’ “The Love Songs of W.

The nation won its first-ever Africa Cup of Nations, giving Senegalese people the world over something to celebrate.

Colson Whitehead’s “Harlem Shuffle,” Honorée Fanonne Jeffers’ “The Love Songs of W.

The poet Amanda Gorman discusses her new collection, Call Us What We Carry, and how the last year has brought new urgency to her writing.

The number is so enormous that we risk becoming numb to its implications.

Louis Menand’s Cold War cultural history “The Free World” and Hanif Abdurraqib’s meditation on Black artistry “A Little Devil in America” are among the works on the nonfiction longlist for the National Book Awards.

Why are politics so consumed with the past?

Clint Smith separates nostalgia and myth from the real history.

In How the Word is Passed, Clint Smith visits eight places central to the history of slavery in America, including Thomas Jefferson's Monticello plantation and Louisiana's Angola prison.

For The Atlantic’s June issue, Clint Smith asks what it will take to end the myth of the Lost Cause