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<em>The Atlantic Daily</em>: What Our Newsroom Is Watching This Summer

Writers and editors share the works that impressed them the most.
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Heading into another socially distant weekend spent largely in front of the television? Consider one of these: Today, writers and editors from around our newsroom share the works that impressed them the most so far this summer. (Specifically missing summer blockbusters? Try something unexpected from our critic David Sims’s latest watchlist.)

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