The Atlantic 10: The Best Books of 2024
Briefly

Each of our 10 resulting selections is a triumph of alchemy, deriving insight from fresh combinations of dismay and delight, tragedy and comedy, mourning and hope.
Sometimes a bracing perspective emerges through formal play, as in a tight epic of a poem about an atrocity. It can come through an adventure story that reimagines an American classic.
Cyrus has realized that without substances, he struggles to find meaning... he decides that if living has no point, perhaps he could imbue his death with meaning.
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