The Atlantic Magazine in Audio

Apr 16 2025 851 ep. 24 mins 6k
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Listen to professionally narrated audio from each issue—just for subscribers, from The Atlantic.

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What Is Classical Music?

Apr 16 2025 15 mins  
The term is applied to radically different compositions across more than 1,000 years of history. We need a better definition. By Matthew Aucoin From the May 2025 issue. Get more from your favorite Atlantic voices when you subscribe. You’ll enjoy unlimited access to Pulitzer-winning journalism, from clear-eyed analysis and insight on breaking news. Learn more about your ad cho

The World Porn Made

Apr 15 2025 43 mins  
It colored our ambitions, our sense of self, our relationships, our bodies, our work, and our art. By Sophie Gilbert From the May 2025 issue. Get more from your favorite Atlantic voices when you subscribe. You’ll enjoy unlimited access to Pulitzer-winning journalism, from clear-eyed analysis and insight on breaking news. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/ad

The Anti-Rockwell

Apr 15 2025 9 mins  
The illustrator dredged the depths of his own subconscious—and tapped into something collectively screwy in America. By Gal Beckerman From the May 2025 issue. Get more from your favorite Atlantic voices when you subscribe. You’ll enjoy unlimited access to Pulitzer-winning journalism, from clear-eyed analysis and insight on breaking news. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit

The Making of Dwyane Wade

Apr 11 2025 32 mins  
The Hall of Famer reached the highest heights of the basketball world. Now he’s figuring out the type of man and father he wants to be. By D. Watkins From the May 2025 issue. Get more from your favorite Atlantic voices when you subscribe. You’ll enjoy unlimited access to Pulitzer-winning journalism, from clear-eyed analysis and insight on breaking news. Learn more about your a

The New King of Tech

Apr 09 2025 15 mins  
How Jensen Huang built Nvidia into a nearly $3 trillion business By James Surowiecki From the May 2025 issue. Get more from your favorite Atlantic voices when you subscribe. You’ll enjoy unlimited access to Pulitzer-winning journalism, from clear-eyed analysis and insight on breaking news. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Everything We Once Believed In

Apr 08 2025 33 mins  
When I joined the conservative movement in the 1980s, there were two types of people: those who cared earnestly about ideas, and those who wanted only to shock the left. The reactionary fringe has won. By David Brooks From the May 2025 issue. Get more from your favorite Atlantic voices when you subscribe. You’ll enjoy unlimited access to Pulitzer-winning journalism, from clear-e

Who Needs Intimacy?

Apr 04 2025 17 mins  
Influential novelists are imagining what women’s lives might look like without the demands of partners and children. By Jordan Kisner From the May 2025 issue. Get more from your favorite Atlantic voices when you subscribe. You’ll enjoy unlimited access to Pulitzer-winning journalism, from clear-eyed analysis and insight on breaking news. Learn more about your ad choices. Vi

A New Force of Indian Country

Apr 03 2025 4 mins  
In 1969, my father gave voice to an activist generation of Native Americans. By Philip J. Deloria From the May 2025 issue. Get more from your favorite Atlantic voices when you subscribe. You’ll enjoy unlimited access to Pulitzer-winning journalism, from clear-eyed analysis and insight on breaking news. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

What to Make of Miracles

Apr 02 2025 18 mins  
In a new book, Elaine Pagels searches for the narrative origins of Jesus’s most wondrous acts. By Judith Shulevitz From the May 2025 issue. Get more from your favorite Atlantic voices when you subscribe. You’ll enjoy unlimited access to Pulitzer-winning journalism, from clear-eyed analysis and insight on breaking news. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/ad

When I’m 84

Apr 01 2025 34 mins  
The world still needs Ringo Starr. By Mark Leibovich From the May 2025 issue. Get more from your favorite Atlantic voices when you subscribe. You’ll enjoy unlimited access to Pulitzer-winning journalism, from clear-eyed analysis and insight on breaking news. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices