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 • Down South

PEN VS. SWORD • From remarks delivered at the PEN America Emergency World Voices Congress of Writers, which was held in May at the United Nations.

CHERNOBYL PURSUIT • From promotional materials for Atomik Vodka.

ARTISTIC DIFFERENCES

THE YEAR OF THE PURCHASE • By Peter Christopher, from Campfires of the Dead and the Living, a short story collection, which will be published next month by 11:11 Press.

COLD LIGHT OF DAY • From an interview with Sam Kriss conducted by Justin E. H. Smith for The Point’s What Is X? podcast, which was released in May. Flat-earthers are conspiracy theorists who believe the earth is an intelligently designed disk surrounded by an ice wall.

STREETS PAVED WITH GOLDEN ARCHES • By Bela Shayevich, from the essay “Bela’s Pilgrim,” which was published in the Winter/Spring 2022 issue of Jewish Currents. Shayevich left Azerbaijan in the Nineties to seek asylum in the United States.

ORDER, ORDER • From alleged behaviors for which politicians in the United Kingdom have resigned or been reprimanded since 1963.

BICYCLE JENNY • By Kathryn Scanlan, from Kick the Latch, which will be published next month by New Directions.

IF I HAD AS MANY HANDS AS VISHNU • By Stephen Ackerman, from his debut poetry collection, Late Life, which will be published this month by Silverfish Review Press.

THE FIGHT TO CHOOSE • The politics of abortion after Roe v. Wade

PRIVATE MATTERS

ONE MANNER OF LAW • The religious origins of American liberalism

TREE SLEUTHS • How DNA is transforming the fight against illegal logging

GUARDIANS OF MEMORY • The quest to save ancient manuscripts

ALMOST HOME

AMONG THE UNDRESSED

VIOLET SWANS

SOLUTION TO THE JULY PUZZLE

HARPER’S MAGAZINE PODCAST HOSTED BY VIOLET LUCCA

NEW BOOKS

THE ENEMY OF PROMISE • What time did to Christopher Hitchens

MIXED BAG

FINDINGS