Atlantic writer. 2025 New America/Emerson Collective fellow.
Joined January 2009
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Megan Garber retweeted
"These book bans deprive students of a better understanding of themselves and each other. As a writer, I believe in the power of words to cross boundaries at a time of deep division. Now more than ever, literature matters."
Piece by @carmenmmachado
nytimes.com/2021/05/11/opini…
Megan Garber retweeted
Before the pandemic, I traveled to one of the largest Confederate cemeteries in the country & spent the day with the Sons of Confederate Veterans to understand how the Lost Cause lives on.
This excerpt from my new book is the cover story for @TheAtlantic. theatlantic.com/magazine/arc…
Megan Garber retweeted
"It can be equally transformative to stay put for a bit, giving us the chance to know ourselves in the context of stability, rather than just the context of pursuing something."
A great @Rainesford piece adapted from her new book, An Ordinary Age: theatlantic.com/family/archi…
Megan Garber retweeted
I am so disgusted by all of this.
“You know that photo everyone is posting? I’m 12 years old in that photo. I’m not even a teenager in that photo, and they’re sharing it calling me nasty,” Doe said. “But the truth cannot be altered.”
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Megan Garber retweeted
I am very excited to share the cover for my forthcoming book: The Cruelty Is The Point: The Past, Present and Future of Trump's America, which is coming out on June 29. You can preorder here: bit.ly/3psRSrr
I hope you'll buy a copy and encourage others to the same!
Megan Garber retweeted
Just thinking about how many stories there are like this that never get told because the teacher in question doesn’t become a well-known literary figure. slate.com/culture/2021/04/bl…
“He looked over at me, his eyes sad and sort of pleading, and said: ‘You really can’t blame me. I’ve wanted you since the day we met.’”
slate.com/human-interest/202…
ALT Here’s how young I was “the day we met”: I still wore underwear with Minnie Mouse on them. Here’s how young I was “the day we met”: Every time I went to the bathroom, I’d pray to see a spot of blood on those cartoon-patterned panties because I was certain I was the last girl in my grade to still not have started my period. Here’s how young I was “the day we met”: I was still losing my baby teeth.
Megan Garber retweeted
I’m grateful I got a chance to speak with him in 2019, for the 50th anniversary of the first moon landing. He was delightful and gracious. Thinking of his family today. theatlantic.com/science/arch…
Megan Garber retweeted
“The world of 'Tucker Carlson Tonight' is angry but also very easy. If you reject facts as the instruments of a biased media, you can say pretty much anything, as long as you say it interestingly.” Read @megangarber on American cynicism, from February: on.theatln.tc/1EUxMQT
Megan Garber retweeted
"These behaviors that we see and that we sometimes pathologize are not rooted in Blackness or the Black experience," Gaylord-Harden told me. "They’re rooted in traumatic stress.”
My latest: theatlantic.com/politics/arc…
Love this @shirklesxp review of "The 93rd Oscars," the Gonzo dramedy that aired last night on ABC theatlantic.com/culture/arch…
Megan Garber retweeted
I’ve asked my 3rd year illustration students at @sva to come up with a post-pandemic New Yorker magazine cover. Here is what they sent in:
Megan Garber retweeted
I love this @AnnieLowrey jeremiad against the term "low-skill jobs." Those jobs aren't low-skill. They're low-wage, and calling them low-skill is a way of blaming often exploited workers for inequality and unemployment. theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv…
Megan Garber retweeted
Monstrous. A woman who accused Bailey of rape alerted his publisher in 2018, hoping to protect other women. The publisher ignored her but forwarded her email to Bailey. nytimes.com/2021/04/21/books…
Megan Garber retweeted
"If all of this is necessary to convict a former officer, convictions will remain rare—and reform will have to take place outside of the courts." theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv…
Megan Garber retweeted
Thinking of George Floyd’s family. What they deserve is George being alive. I wish them as much peace as they can find.
Megan Garber retweeted
I wrote about far right Republicans trying to rehabilitate "anglo-saxon" for political purposes, a term you use when "whites-only" is simply too inclusive and diverse theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv…
Writing this, I looked at how people of the time made sense of Darwin's insights, Carson's, Galileo's. We're living in the midst, I think, of another world-shaking revolution. And are coming to terms with it all just as they did: Slowly. Warily. Awkwardly.
theatlantic.com/culture/arch…
For @TheAtlantic's new print issue, I wrote about the excruciating horrorcringe of comedies that deal with puberty—and about their surprising grace
theatlantic.com/magazine/arc…
ALT The creators of these shows are compassionate toward the kids because, in a direct sense, they are those kids. The magic here is human, and humane; everyone, on some level, is the child they once were. Everyone can be upended in an addled world. Everyone deserves some tenderness. These cathartic comedies came to life in a moment of deep anxiety about empathy itself—a moment of cruelties and rumors, loneliness and fear, Beccas and Brandts. The shows have instructed, and warned. To watch them is to feel once again the great hope of young adolescence: Please let this just be a phase.