Spend time with our writers’ picks this weekend.
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This was the year of the sold-out stadium tour, double-feature mania, celebrity memoirs (and documentaries), and superhero fatigue. It was also the year of the Hollywood strike, controversy over book bans, and the rise of AI music. The Atlantic’s Culture team looked back on 2023 and compiled lists of the year’s best movies, TV shows, albums, books, and podcasts. Spend some time with their picks this weekend.
First, here are three new stories from The Atlantic:
Best of 2023
The 10 Best Films of 2023
By David Sims
“I opted for a mix of old and new, small and giant … from a modest YouTube documentary to a near-billion-dollar-grossing dramatic extravaganza. The business is still figuring itself out, perhaps, but the medium is as vibrant as ever.”
The 15 Best TV Shows of 2023
By Megan Garber, Sophie Gilbert, Hannah Giorgis, and Shirley Li
“The dual actors’ and writers’ strikes in Hollywood shut down productions while exposing the problems diminishing the quality of the shows being made. Still, the list below exemplifies the small screen’s creative breadth this year.”
The 10 Best Albums of 2023
By Spencer Kornhaber
“The music industry has been beset by concerns about market saturation, caused by an ever-rising flood of new songs onto streaming services … But looking back over a year of great albums offers a reminder that more really can be more: more melodies, more breakthroughs, more art.”
The 10 Best Books of 2023
By The Atlantic Culture Desk
“We were drawn to ambitious projects, and looked for writing that was clear and beautiful. Most important, we searched for books that you won’t be able to put down.”
The 25 Best Podcasts of 2023
By Laura Jane Standley
“These shows premiered fresh frameworks, experimented with sound design, and elevated underrepresented voices and stories … We offer them as a compass for unpredictable times, a pick-me-up for winter blues, and, we hope, a hint of clarity in times to come.”
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Evening Read
The Nocturnals
By Faith Hill
While most people are fast asleep, there’s a whole world of people who are wide awake. They go to work, drive around, run errands at 24-hour stores. In this parallel universe, there are rarely crowds, nor traffic, nor lines; no awkward shuffling around other shoppers in the grocery aisle, no run-ins with neighbors or cacophony of email notifications. As the sun rises, these nocturnal people settle down to sleep.
They don’t all want to live this way. Some of them have to; they have sleep disorders, or night-shift jobs. But some of them want this very much—enough to seek out those night shifts, to train themselves to wake in the dark. They do this because of the isolation, not in spite of it. I talked to people who painted me a magical picture of their nighttime world: of exquisite, profound solitude; of relief; of escape.
Read the full article.
Culture Break
Read. “Valentine,” a new poem by Rachel Coye:
“The deer in the snow turned away / from my flashlight and kettle / to let me fight with the ice alone. / I was thinking of you then, / of your sleeping head, / of your maskless mouth.”
Watch. You’ll want to revisit these 25 feel-good movies, compiled by our critic in 2020, again and again.
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Spend time with our writers’ picks this weekend.
This is an edition of The Atlantic Daily, a newsletter that guides you through the biggest stories of the day, helps you discover new ideas, and recommends the best in culture. Sign up for it here.
This was the year of the sold-out stadium tour, double-feature mania, celebrity memoirs (and documentaries), and superhero fatigue. It was also the year of the Hollywood strike, controversy over book bans, and the rise of AI music. The Atlantic’s Culture team looked back on 2023 and compiled lists of the year’s best movies, TV shows, albums, books, and podcasts. Spend some time with their picks this weekend.
First, here are three new stories from The Atlantic:
Best of 2023
The 10 Best Films of 2023
By David Sims
“I opted for a mix of old and new, small and giant … from a modest YouTube documentary to a........
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