The Atlantic is an American magazine founded as The Atlantic Monthly in Boston in 1857. The magazine's founders were a group of writers that included Harriet Beecher Stowe, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr., John Greenleaf Whittier and James Russell Lowell (who would become its first editor).

Originally created as a literary and cultural commentary magazine, its current format is of a general editorial magazine. In 2001 the July and August issues were combined into a single issue. The same thing happened in 2003 with the January and February issues. As a result, the magazine dropped the word 'monthly' from its name in 2004. In April, 2005, the editors of The Atlantic decided to cease publishing fiction in regular issues in favor of a newsstand-only annual fiction issue.

Online archive of the Atlantic. Making of America Collection, Cornell University Library (from the earliest issues up to December 1901)

The following articles about Richard Brautigan have appeared in The Atlantic Monthly:

Adams, Phoebe-Lou. "Sombrero Fallout by Richard Brautigan." November 1976: 118.

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