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 • The Spirit of the Age

CHEKHOV’S GUN • By Vasily Grossman, from From the Front Line, which was published last month by New York Review Books. Translated from the Russian by Robert Chandler and Elizabeth Chandler.

BUNKER BUSTER • From a speech delivered by Percival Everett at the Authors Guild Foundation Gala in April.

THE EPISTLES OF PAUL • From emails sent by L. Paul Bremer to his wife between August 2003 and June 2004, a period during which he oversaw the Coalition Provisional Authority, the governing body installed by the United States following its 2003 invasion of Iraq. This selection was arranged by Nick Davis.

THREE-BODY SOLUTION • From a cache of images released by NASA this spring that were taken by Artemis II astronauts during a lunar flyby in April. This photograph was shot on a Nikon D5 camera whose discontinued, decade-old technology proved suitable for capturing Earth and the moon in the conditions of space.

PASSION OF THE TENANT • An illustration by Eneko, from issue 2,420 of El Jueves, which was published in February. The captions read st. tenant martyr and the price of housing. The lodger being burned at the stake evokes the recent Spanish housing crisis.

GROSS INTERNATIONAL PRODUCT • From an interview with the economist Branko Milanovic that was conducted by Alice Liu and published in April on Global Inequality and More 3.0, Milanovic’s Substack newsletter.

YEAR OF THE HORSE • From official necropsy reports of racehorse fatalities in Kentucky that were compiled in March by the advocacy group Horseracing Wrongs.

CORRIDORS OF MADNESS • From Satisfied Sarcophagi: Collected Short Stories, by Joyce Mansour, which will be published next month by City Lights. Translated from the French by C. Francis Fisher.

EARLY 1984 • By Joshua Beckman, from A Guide for Making Fragments from Diaries, which was published in April by Wave Books.

HAPPY FUCKING BIRTHDAY • An exhausted America turns two hundred and fifty

LOVE OF COUNTRY

AMERICAN EPHEMERA • A primer on a free people’s government

REPUBLICAN MACHINES • Can the GOP save the humanities?

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BACKSLIDING • On the paradox of willpower

DEBUTANTES

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ADVENTURES

NEW BOOKS

WHERE THE LIGHT FALLS • Who was Johannes Vermeer?

DREAMS AND NIGHTMARES • John Berryman’s fresh idiom

FINDINGS