Read some of Toby Lester’s articles from The Atlantic.

Map Quest January-Februrary 2007
A journey to Alsace-Lorraine, the birthplace of the name “America”

Notes from Antiquity, November 2002
A profile of a scholar trying to reconstruct ancient Greek music

Oh, Gods!, February 2002 (cover story)
A survey of the sociology of new religious movements

The Reinvention of Privacy," March 2001 (cover story)
New businesses and technologies may help improve privacy, not erode it
   
The Money Artist, July 1999
A review of Boggs: A Comedy of Values, by Lawrence Weschler
 
What is the Koran?, January 1999 (cover story)
A report on the world of revisionist Koranic scholarship
 
New-Alphabet Disease?, July 1997
A dispatch from on Azerbaijan on the country’s efforts to change alphabets
 
Secondhand Music, April 1997
A lighthearted musing on the chance harmonies created by the machines used in daily life; subsequently 
featured on the radio program This American Life (beginning at 12:40)