The Atlantic is announcing two new editorial roles: the hire of Adam Kirsch as senior editor, coming from The Wall Street Journal, and Luis Parrales, who is moving from the role of fact checker to staff writer at The Atlantic, focusing on coverage of religion.

Below is the staff announcement from editor in chief Jeffrey Goldberg and executive editor Adrienne LaFrance:

We’re writing with excellent news: Adam Kirsch is joining The Atlantic as a senior editor, and Luis Parrales is stepping into the role of staff writer.

First, Adam. Many of you already know Adam from his brilliant and wide-ranging writing—we ran excerpts of his last two books (which you can read here and here), and he has written incisively for us about apocalypse narratives, Benjamín Labatut, and many other subjects. Adam

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