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 • Origin Story

HEADED INTO THE ABYSS • THE STORY OF OUR TIME, AND THE FUTURE WE’LL FACE

READINGS

LITERARY MATRONAGE • By Julian Barnes, from the introduction to The Family Diary, a 2024 planner edited by Julian Rothenstein, which was published last month by Redstone Press.

HOG WILD • By Wang Xiaobo, from “The Maverick Pig,” included in the collection Pleasure of Thinking, which was published this month by Astra House. Translated from the Chinese by Yan Yan.

REPETITION COMPULSION • From articles by Anne Applebaum published in The Atlantic since 2021. Applebaum is a staff writer at The Atlantic and a senior fellow at the SNF Agora Institute, which is “dedicated to strengthening global democracy.”

TRIAL BY MEDIA • From headlines published by the Guardian since 2009.

LABOR PAINS • By Allegra Hyde, from “Dear Employee,” which was published in Issue 80 of Conjunctions.

FAILURE TO LAUNCH • From discontinued products included in the Museum of Failure’s collection, which was on display last month in New York City.

REAL ESTATE SPECULATION • By John McPhee, from Tabula Rasa, Volume 1, a collection of his unrealized reporting projects, which was published this month by Farrar, Straus and Giroux.

WHITE SPRUCE • By Gillian Conoley, from Notes from the Passenger, which was published in May by Nightboat Books.

“America’s most interesting magazine.”

DOING THE WORK • The Protestant ethic and the spirit of wokeness

HARPER’S MAGAZINE PODCAST

THE NEW DESPAIR

IN THE GLIMMER • The good witches of Pennsylvania

CITY IN A FOREST • The fight over Atlanta’s new police academy

BRICK • A LITERARY JOURNAL

BEHIND THE VEIL OF INDIFFERENCE • Lessons from a nuclear life

MOJAVE GHOST

SUBMERSION JOURNALISM • Two thousand feet under the sea in a homemade submarine

THE CASTLE OF ROSE TELLIN

NEW BOOKS

DO CARTELS EXIST? • A revisionist view of the drug wars

PUZZLE • PLUS FOURS

FINDINGS