The Atlantic – September 2019

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8 SEPTEMBER 2019 THE ATLANTIC

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28 Sorry, Not Sorry
BY JAMES PARKER
In a new translation of the
Book of Job, the famously
repentant hero gives God
a piece of his mind.

BOOKS

39 Deconstructing

Clarence Thomas

BY MICHAEL O’DONNELL

The justice’s reactionary

legal philosophy

rests on faith in the

power of adversity to

fuel black progress.

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36 Edna O’Brien’s

Lonely Girls

BY TERRENCE RAFFERTY

The setting of her new novel

is terror-ridden Nigeria,

a world away from her native

Ireland, but the psychic

territory is familiar.

86 The

Quickening

BY LESLIE JAMISON

A story of two births

41 Memory Song

BY MARK JARMAN

CONTENTS VOL. 324–NO. 3

32 BOOKS

How the Dismal Science

Broke America
BY SEBASTIAN MALLABY
What the rise, and wrong turns, of economists and
Wall Street dealmakers reveals about our future

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