What Makes Kate Winslet So Surprising

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Welcome back to The Daily’s Sunday culture edition, in which one Atlantic writer or editor reveals what’s keeping them entertained. Today’s guest is senior editor Matt Seaton, who has written about a happiness expert’s frank advice for Joe Biden and a game of cricket that turned into a diplomatic incident.

Matt enjoys watching Kate Winslet play against what one might call her English-rose type, would bring the audiobook of Charlotte Brontë’s Villette to a desert island, and returns often to a Robert Frost poem that is both nature writing and its complete opposite.

First, here are three Sunday reads from The Atlantic:

• Congress accidentally legalized weed six years ago.
• The fakest populism you ever saw
• Why you