In 1999 a young American dumped his bicycle and walked out into the Great Sandy Desert. Why was he willing to risk his life, and why do some people need to get lost in order to feel found?

What if Bible characters had smartphones? And what if they used them to record themselves talking directly to camera? Before you dismiss the idea as stupid, consider that these videos on TikTok are ...

When we think of suffering we (at least I) don’t usually attach the words ‘beauty’ and ‘joy’ to describe it. In our world we perceive suffering as being terrible, inconvenient, painful and maybe ...

Conor Friedersdorf is a staff writer at The Atlantic. Before joining The Atlantic in 2010, he was the features editor at Culture11 and a reporter for the Los Angeles News Group. He is the founding ...

Stanley Kauffman was a film critic with The New Republic, beginning in 1958 and continuing until 2013. He was also a professor of English, Drama, and Film at City University of New York from 1973 ...