The complete online text of The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 09, No. 51, January, 1862.

Despite its low circulation and budget, the Atlantic Monthly magazine has maintained a strong influence in American culture by publishing many of the most prominent authors and cultural authorities and maintaining its status as one of the...

The Atlantic Monthly (also known as The Atlantic) is a American magazine founded in Boston in 1857. Originally created as a literary and cultural commentary magazine, its current format is of a general editorial magazine which claims that its content...

Last year, after roughly a century and a half in Boston, The Atlantic Monthly moved its headquarters to Washington, D.C. But despite the southern decampment, the Atlantic movers and shakers have recently been maneuvering to reclaim at least one perk of life in New England:...

Ornette Coleman, who earlier this year became only the second jazz musician to win the Pulitzer Prize for music, swept the top honors at the Jazz Awards 2007 on Thursday, winning in four categories, including musician of the year.Coleman's "Sound Grammar," the first purely improvised...

At different times in New York on June 1, Christopher Hitchens and Ian McEwan, literary giants whose close friendship has been much remarked upon in the press, were discussing each other in separate venues. Mr. McEwan was appearing that night on Charlie Rose’s PBS interview...

Commentary on the new Philip Roth novel (see page C18) has ranged from the ecstatic (in Newsweek, David Gates declared Exit Ghost “an ideal farewell” to Nathan Zuckerman—“at this point, Roth is everybody’s daddy”) to the lethal (Christopher Hitchens, in The Atlantic Monthly, airs the...

In the following essay, Price examines the attitude of The Atlantic Monthly to African Americans in the nineteenth century and traces the periodical's relationship with the prominent African American author, Charles Chesnutt.