The Atlantic - 09.2019

18 SEPTEMBER 2019 THE ATLANTIC SKETCH THE SEX-SCENE COACH Onscreen intimacy is endangered. Can Alicia Rodis save it? BY KATE J ...

THE ATLANTIC SEPTEMBER 2019 19 “nonnegotiable.” Why weren’t sex scenes governed by the same approach? When Rodis heard that a fe ...

20 SEPTEMBER 2019 THE ATLANTIC DISPATCHES • SKETCH that it was.) Rodis was asked to explain exactly what she might bring to the ...

THE ATLANTIC SEPTEMBER 2019 21 Pay cable’s freedom to titillate no longer offers the same competitive advantage it once did, tha ...

22 SEPTEMBER 2019 THE ATLANTIC DISPATCHES T H E R O A R O F the MGM lion. NBC’s iconic chimes. The godlike C-major chord of a bo ...

THE ATLANTIC SEPTEMBER 2019 23 this is useful: The person operating the device can simultaneously observe the surroundings for v ...

24 SEPTEMBER 2019 THE ATLANTIC  H OT OR NOT? The question of whom we’re attracted to and why has long confounded humankind’s gre ...

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26 SEPTEMBER 2019 THE ATLANTIC DISPATCHES TECH GAMES BOYS PLAY How Gears of War helped me come out BY SPENCER A. KLAVAN CAME O ...

THE ATLANTIC SEPTEMBER 2019 27 common objective gives you something to talk about, and not having to face each other means you d ...

28 SEPTEMBER 2019 THE ATLANTIC Illustration by OLIVER MUNDAY MUSEO NACIONAL DE ARTE THE OMNIVORE Sorry, Not Sorry In a new trans ...

“ENGROSSING... A SLICE OF REAL-LIFE ESPIONAGE.” DAVID ROONEY, THE HOLLYWOOD REPORTER “I KNOW OF NO OTHER LEAK AS IMPORTANT AND C ...

30 SEPTEMBER 2019 THE ATLANTIC THE OMNIVORE Here for us in 2019, right on time, is a middle- finger Job. toward the hour of his ...

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32 SEPTEMBER 2019 THE ATLANTIC BOOKS How the Dismal Science Broke America What the rise, and wrong turns, of economists and Wall ...

Illustration by TYLER COMRIE THE ATLANTIC SEPTEMBER 2019 33 the international monetary order, deeming their BOOKS advice useless ...

34 SEPTEMBER 2019 THE ATLANTIC The Trump administration and its foreign analogues have largely dispensed with economic advisers. ...

THE ATLANTIC SEPTEMBER 2019 35 guarantor of employment. Corporations are freed to pursue efficiency as they see fit; individuals ...

36 SEPTEMBER 2019 THE ATLANTIC Illustration by ALEXANDRA BOWMAN BOOKS Edna O’Brien’s Lonely Girls The setting of her new novel i ...

THE ATLANTIC SEPTEMBER 2019 37 BOOKS That scary place, where a girl is alone with herself and a dubious future, has ever been O’ ...