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Harper’s Magazine
LETTERS
HEADED INTO THE ABYSS • THE STORY OF OUR TIME, AND THE FUTURE WE’LL FACE
EASY CHAIR • Street Life
READINGS
COFFEE AND DO-NOTS
OH, BOTHER
FIDELIA CÓRDOBA
POEM
LONG DAY’S JOURNAL INTO NIGHT
SEDAN OF THE CRIME
HAPPINESS
THE BARD OF ARMAGH
DOCTOR’S ORDERS • COVID-19 and the new science wars
THE MOURNFUL OBSERVER
WHO WALKS ALWAYS BESIDE YOU? • A disappearance in Arkansas
LOVE IN THE TIME OF SICKLE CELL DISEASE • What’s the cost of rolling the genetic dice?
TO THE CUCKOO PAPER WASP
THE RETURN
SOLUTION TO THE JULY PUZZLE • NOTES FOR “PLUS FOURS”: Note: * indicates an anagram.
NEW BOOKS
FROM CHURN TO BURN • Colson Whitehead’s half-true Harlem
PUZZLE
FINDINGS
Science, with style. • Nautilus is a magazine of cutting-edge science, unraveled by the very brightest living thinkers.