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26-05-2025
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Six Memorial Day Reads
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 Memorial Day, catch up on Atlantic stories about an AncestryDNA test that revealed a medical secret, why public pools are in decline, 24 books to get lost in this summer, and more. Your Reading List A Woman's AncestryDNA Test Revealed a Medical Secret As a cancer patient, she had received cord-blood cells from an anonymous donor. The DNA from those cells led her to him. (From 2019) By Sarah Zhang The Decline of America's Public Pools As summers get hotter, public pools help people stay cool. Why are they so neglected? By Eve Andrews 24 Books to Get Lost in This Summer The Atlantic's writers and editors have chosen fiction and nonfiction to match all sorts of moods. The Atlantic Culture Desk My Shipwreck Story On my first time out as a commercial fisherman, my boat sank, my captain died, and I was left adrift and alone in the Pacific. By Alec Frydman $350,000 a Year, and Just Getting By Financial confessionals reveal that income inequality and geographic inequality have normalized absurd spending patterns. (From 2019) By Annie Lowrey The Wrong Way to Motivate Your Kid When children fall short, many parents' instinct is to take away something they love. That's the wrong impulse. By Russell Shaw P.S. Read 'I Remember,' the latest poem by William H. McRaven, a retired Navy admiral and the former commander of U.S. Special Operations Command: 'I remember their faces. / I cannot forget their faces.' When you buy a book using a link in this newsletter, we receive a commission. Thank you for supporting The Atlantic. Article originally published at The Atlantic
Atlantic
26-05-2025
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Six Memorial Day Reads
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 Memorial Day, catch up on Atlantic stories about an AncestryDNA test that revealed a medical secret, why public pools are in decline, 24 books to get lost in this summer, and more. Your Reading List A Woman's AncestryDNA Test Revealed a Medical Secret As a cancer patient, she had received cord-blood cells from an anonymous donor. The DNA from those cells led her to him. (From 2019) By Sarah Zhang The Decline of America's Public Pools As summers get hotter, public pools help people stay cool. Why are they so neglected? By Eve Andrews 24 Books to Get Lost in This Summer The Atlantic 's writers and editors have chosen fiction and nonfiction to match all sorts of moods. The Atlantic Culture Desk My Shipwreck Story On my first time out as a commercial fisherman, my boat sank, my captain died, and I was left adrift and alone in the Pacific. By Alec Frydman $350,000 a Year, and Just Getting By Financial confessionals reveal that income inequality and geographic inequality have normalized absurd spending patterns. (From 2019) By Annie Lowrey The Wrong Way to Motivate Your Kid When children fall short, many parents' instinct is to take away something they love. That's the wrong impulse. By Russell Shaw P.S. 'I remember their faces. / I cannot forget their faces.'
