The Atavist Magazine

“That’s Somebody’s Son”

When their sons began to suffer from profound mental illness, these Colorado women learned to lean on each other.

“There Will Be No Mercy”

When Ethiopia’s government launched a brutal two-year war in Tigray, the region’s largest hospital was overrun with victims. The medical staff risked everything to treat the wounded—and believe the world ignored a genocide.

The Girl in the Picture

A sketch artist and a grieving mother set out to solve a cold case. The more they dug, the more terrifying the truth became.

Love and Ruin

An exhilarating and heartbreaking tale of lives lived to the fullest in one of the world’s most fascinating and forbidding places.

American Hippopotamus

A bracing and eccentric epic of espionage and hippos.