J. B. MacKinnon on Canadian paranoia, the science behind ostrich culling, and Trump’s collapsing reputation north of the ...
When I was diagnosed with secondary myelofibrosis three and a half years ago, like many others in similar situations, I took serious stock. The past few years had been difficult: I had experienced a ...
On a hot day last June, near the shores of Lake Suwa, in the mountains of central Japan, hundreds of spectators gathered around an earthen stage roughly two feet high and two dozen feet wide. The ...
[Speech] John R. MacArthur’s Remarks at the Harper’s Gala At the Harper’s Magazine 175th Anniversary Gala on November 13, president and publisher John R. MacArthur, welcomed 350 guests who gathered to ...
EXT. 8TH STREET—LATE AFTERNOON (C. 1959). CAMERA IN NONSTOP MOTION is on the shoulder of a young man, late teens, intently walking west on a busy Greenwich Village thoroughfare. Under one arm, he’s ...
The Knight First Amendment Institute and the Simon and June Li Center for Global Journalism at Columbia University hosted a symposium on September 9 and 10 called “The Forever War and the First ...
In June, Rachel Cusk and Ben Lerner joined Harper’s Magazine editor Christopher Carroll for a conversation and Q&A in front of a live audience at the NYU Skirball Center in downtown Manhattan. Listen ...
When the crow whisperer appeared at the side gate to Adam Florin and Dani Fisher’s house, in Oakland, California, she was dressed head to toe in black, wearing a hoodie, gloves, and a mask. This was a ...
Age of Cage: Four Decades of Hollywood Through One Singular Career, by Keith Phipps. Henry Holt. 288 pages. $27.99. Last fall, hoping to draw weary crowds back to the multiplex, AMC Theatres enlisted ...
We will never know how many died during the Butlerian Jihad. Was it millions? Billions? Trillions, perhaps? It was a fantastic rage, a great revolt that spread like wildfire, consuming everything in ...
The Recognitions, by William Gaddis. NYRB Classics. 976 pages. $27.95. J R, by William Gaddis. NYRB Classics. 784 pages. $24.95. Readers with more than passing interest in the twentieth-century novel ...