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The Atlantic Why literary novels about wrenching events are taking more and more cues from crime writing Vanessa Saba / Mondadori Portfolio / Getty At the bookstore where I used to work, we shelved fiction in four separate categories. Crime novels shared a wall with speculative fiction; romance had a set of freestanding shelves. The rest of the fiction room was devoted to literary fiction, which, unlike the others, we never identified by genre name. The publishing industry tends to treat literary as a descriptor, a nod to a work’s artistic quality or aspirations. But literary fiction is a ...

The Atlantic My son does an average of five or six hours of homework every night. Is this normal? Elena Xausa Editor’s Note: Every Tuesday, Abby Freireich and Brian Platzer take questions from readers about their kids’ education. Have one? Email them at homeroom@theatlantic.com. Dear Abby and Brian, My son, who is in ninth grade, is a really good student, but I’m worried he’s working far too much. He does an average of five or six hours of homework every weeknight, and that’s on top of spending most of the weekend writing essays or studying for tests. His school says that each of hi...

Work-Life Balance Has to Include Friendship “We’re able to be our fully human, vulnerable, type-A selves with a group of people who get us in a way that your partner or your kids may not.” ’s Julie Beck and two or more friends, exploring the history and significance of their relationship. This week she talks with friends who created a “Working Moms With Big Jobs” support group to help navigate the challenges of parenting while maintaining a demanding career. They use the tools of corporate life—agendas, surveys, Google Docs—to help themselves map out their lives and make time ...

The Atlantic ‘It Seems That I Know How the Universe Originated’ The theoretical physicist Andrei Linde may have the world’s most expansive conception of what infinity looks like. Updated at 3:27 p.m. ET on February 9, 2021. In Jorge Luis Borges’s story “The Book of Sand,” a mysterious Bible peddler knocks on the narrator’s door and offers to sell him a sacred book he came by in a small village in India. The book shows the wear of many hands. The stranger says that the illiterate peasant who gave it to him called it The Book of Sand, “because neither sand nor this book has a b...