Harper's Magazine

HARPER’S MAGAZINE, the oldest general interest monthly in America, explores the issues that drive our national conversation through such celebrated features as Readings, Annotation, and Findings, as well as the iconic Harper’s Index.

Harper’s Magazine

LETTERS

EASY CHAIR • Digging in the Crates

ENTERTAINMENT BLEAKLY • By David Thomson, from Remotely, which will be published this month by Yale University Press.

BUGGING OUT • From comments about the fall 2023 bedbug outbreak in Paris, as recorded in news reports.

WE WERE THE NEWS TODAY • From journal entries by Maram Humaid, an AlJazeera.com journalist in Gaza, written during the first week of the Israel–Hamas war.

FRIENDS LIKE THESE • From resolutions passed by the United Nations General Assembly since 1982 for which the United States and Israel were the only two member states, of more than 150 nations, to vote no.

VEHICULAR MAN’S LAUGHTER • From audio captured by the body camera of Seattle police officer Daniel Auderer in January 2023. Auderer is recorded talking to Mike Solan, the president of the Seattle Police Officers Guild, about the death of Jaahnavi Kandula, a woman who was struck and killed by officer Kevin Dave. Investigators later concluded that Dave was traveling at sixty-three miles per hour at the time of the collision, which threw Kandula a distance of one hundred and thirty-eight feet.

MAJOR ISSUE • From emails exchanged by Secret Service agents between March 2021 and November 2022 regarding president Joe Biden’s dogs, Major and Commander.

WHEN THEY WERE PRETTY • By Henry Van Dyke, from Ladies of the Rachmaninoff Eyes, which was republished this month by McNally Editions.

CHANNELED RAGE • From tweets posted by the Iowa senator Chuck Grassley since February 2012.

FLOWERS • By Noelle Kocot, from Ascent of the Mothers, which was published in November by Wave Books.

BEHIND THE NEW IRON CURTAIN • Caviar, counterculture, and the cult of Stalin reborn

IN THE ATRIUM OF KINGS

THE MUSEUM OF BROKEN G.I. JOES • When soldiers come home

SATURN RETURN • Scenes from the life of a psychedelic pioneer

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IF ONE PART SUFFERS • The enigma of body integrity dysphoria

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