James Hamblin, author portrait

James Hamblin

JAMES HAMBLIN is a writer and senior editor at The Atlantic magazine. He hosts the video series "If Our Bodies Could Talk," for which he was a finalist in the 2015 Webby Awards for Best Web Personality. He is the recipient of a 2015 Yale University Poynter Fellowship in Journalism. His work has been featured in/on The New York Times, Politico magazine, NPR, BBC, MSNBC, New York, The Awl, and The Colbert ReportTime named him among the 140 people to follow on Twitter in 2014. He's based in Brooklyn, NY.
If Our Bodies Could Talk

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If Our Bodies Could Talk

Register for the 2025 Penguin Random House First-Year Experience® Conference Author Events!

Penguin Random House Author Events at the 44th Annual First-Year Experience® Conference February 16-19, 2025 New Orleans, Louisiana Hyatt Regency New Orleans Click Here to RSVP A complimentary meal and a limited number of books will be available to attendees. Each event will also be followed by an author signing. Interested in hosting one of these

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What Students Will Be Reading: Campus Common Reading Roundup, 2024-25

With the fall semester in full swing, colleges and universities around the country have announced their Common Reading books for the upcoming 2024-25 academic year. We’ve compiled a list of over 336 programs and their title selections, which you can download here: First-Year Reading 2024-25. We will continue to update this listing to provide the

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2025 Catalog for First-Year & Common Reading

We are delighted to present our new First-Year & Common Reading Catalog for 2025! From award-winning fiction, poetry, memoir, and biography to new books about science, technology, history, student success, the environment, public health, and current events, the titles presented in our common reading catalog will have students not only eagerly flipping through the pages,

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