Spend time with our writers’ picks this weekend.
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This was the 12 months of the sold-out stadium tour, double-feature mania, movie star memoirs (and documentaries), and superhero fatigue. It was additionally the 12 months of the Hollywood strike, controversy over guide bans, and the rise of AI music. The Atlantic’s Tradition group appeared again on 2023 and compiled lists of the 12 months’s greatest motion pictures, TV reveals, albums, books, and podcasts. Spend a while with their picks this weekend.
First, listed here are three new tales from The Atlantic:
Better of 2023
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The ten Greatest Movies of 2023
By David Sims
“I opted for a mixture of previous and new, small and big … from a modest YouTube documentary to a near-billion-dollar-grossing dramatic extravaganza. The enterprise continues to be figuring itself out, maybe, however the medium is as vibrant as ever.”
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The 15 Greatest TV Reveals of 2023
By Megan Garber, Sophie Gilbert, Hannah Giorgis, and Shirley Li
“The twin actors’ and writers’ strikes in Hollywood shut down productions whereas exposing the issues diminishing the standard of the reveals being made. Nonetheless, the record under exemplifies the small display screen’s artistic breadth this 12 months.”
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The ten Greatest Albums of 2023
By Spencer Kornhaber
“The music business has been beset by issues about market saturation, brought on by an ever-rising flood of recent songs onto streaming providers … However wanting again over a 12 months of nice albums gives a reminder that extra actually may be extra: extra melodies, extra breakthroughs, extra artwork.”
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The ten Greatest Books of 2023
By The Atlantic Tradition Desk
“We had been drawn to formidable initiatives, and appeared for writing that was clear and delightful. Most essential, we looked for books that you just received’t be capable to put down.”
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The 25 Greatest Podcasts of 2023
By Laura Jane Standley
“These reveals premiered contemporary frameworks, experimented with sound design, and elevated underrepresented voices and tales … We provide them as a compass for unpredictable occasions, a pick-me-up for winter blues, and, we hope, a touch of readability in occasions to return.”
Dispatches
- The Weekly Planet: A very powerful know-how of 2023 wasn’t AI, Saahil Desai writes.
- The Books Briefing: Authors have discovered themselves blindsided by the belief that their very own books have been used to coach AI, Gal Beckerman wrote in a September version we’re revisiting in the present day.
- Atlantic Intelligence: What is going to subsequent 12 months maintain for AI? Damon Beres explores our writers’ evaluation of the know-how’s trajectory from right here.
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Night Learn
Max Mikulecky The Nocturnals
By Religion Hill
Whereas most individuals are quick asleep, there’s a complete world of people who find themselves unsleeping. They go to work, drive round, run errands at 24-hour shops. On this parallel universe, there are not often crowds, nor visitors, nor strains; no awkward shuffling round different customers within the grocery aisle, no run-ins with neighbors or cacophony of electronic mail notifications. Because the solar rises, these nocturnal individuals settle right down to sleep.
They don’t all wish to stay this manner. A few of them should; they’ve sleep issues, or night-shift jobs. However a few of them need this very a lot—sufficient to hunt out these evening shifts, to coach themselves to wake at nighttime. They do that as a result of of the isolation, not despite it. I talked to individuals who painted me a magical image of their nighttime world: of beautiful, profound solitude; of reduction; of escape.
Tradition Break
Jonathan Wenk / Columbia Photos / Everett Assortment Learn. “Valentine,” a brand new poem by Rachel Coye:
“The deer within the snow turned away / from my flashlight and kettle / to let me struggle with the ice alone. / I used to be considering of you then, / of your sleeping head, / of your maskless mouth.”
Watch. You’ll wish to revisit these 25 feel-good motion pictures, compiled by our critic in 2020, time and again.
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