Six Questions — May 24, 2013, 8:00 am
The World Is a Carpet: Four Seasons in an Afghan Village
Anna Badkhen on life in rural Afghanistan and the friction between violence and beauty
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Years of consideration preceding the inclusion of the word “phat” in Random House’s 1996 Compact Unabridged Dictionary:
Scientists created crash helmets that stink when cracked and fruit flies to whom blue light smells delicious.
Six Questions — May 24, 2013, 8:00 am
Anna Badkhen on life in rural Afghanistan and the friction between violence and beauty
Browsings — May 23, 2013, 9:00 am
Tracing the Holocaust-Symbol Theory of The Shining
Harper's Finest — May 21, 2013, 3:09 pm
The looming collapse of agriculture on the Great Plains
Weekly Review — May 21, 2013, 8:30 am
Government power-drunkenness, space oddities, and anti-lesbian prejudice on the Isle of Man
Précis — May 20, 2013, 9:00 am
“The smart question is not ‘How we can ban more guns?’ but ‘How can we live more safely among the millions of guns already floating around?’ ”
Harper's Finest — May 20, 2013, 9:00 am
“This is the heart of the magic factory, the place where medicine is infused with the miracles of science.”
Perspective — May 17, 2013, 9:00 am
The firearm as emblem of personal sovereignty
Editor's Note — May 16, 2013, 1:43 pm
Why the AR-15 rifle is here to stay, the conspiracy theories of Room 237, and more
Publisher's Note — May 16, 2013, 11:55 am
In the aftermath of the Boston Marathon bombing, why did so few people protest the decision to lock down parts of the city?
Weekly Review — May 14, 2013, 8:00 am
Pakistan’s first democratic transfer of power, the IRS and DOJ overstep their bounds, and the Pope comes out against spinsters
Official Business — May 10, 2013, 3:00 pm
New York–area readers, please join Readings editor Emily Stokes and author Lydia Davis on Saturday at 4 p.m. at the Frieze New York art fair on Randall’s Island.
Art — May 10, 2013, 9:00 am
“Vermilion Flycatcher, Arizona, May 1941.” Eliot Porter’s work will be on view through July as part of Artist’s Choice: Trisha Donnelly at the Museum of Modern Art in New York City. © Amon Carter Museum of American Art, Fort Worth, Texas
Six Questions — May 9, 2013, 9:00 am
Lucas Mann on hope and change in a minor-league-baseball city
Weekly Review — May 7, 2013, 8:00 am
One World Trade Center gets its spire, the Gitmo hunger strike continues, and the OED explores revirginize
Heart of Empire — May 6, 2013, 4:44 pm
How bank-friendly legislators are gutting the Lincoln Amendment to the Dodd–Frank Act
Postcard — May 3, 2013, 1:20 pm
Watching the red carpet at the 2013 White House Correspondents’ Dinner
Honors — May 3, 2013, 11:27 am
Last night, Harper’s won the National Magazine Award for fiction, for Stephen King’s story “Batman and Robin Have an Altercation” (September 2012).
Art — May 2, 2013, 9:00 am
Wait and watch awhile (high) was featured in the May 2013 Readings section. Paul Wackers‘s work will be on view in June at Narwhal gallery in Toronto. Courtesy the artist and A.L.I.C.E. Gallery, Brussels
Weekly Review — April 30, 2013, 8:00 am
A Bangladeshi building collapses, George W. Bush’s presidential library opens, and koala chlamydia ravages Australia
Mentions — April 29, 2013, 7:06 pm
A recent New York Times Magazine feature recalls Barbara Ehrenreich’s November 2001 story, “Welcome to Cancerland”
“This is the heart of the magic factory, the place where medicine is infused with the miracles of science, and I’ve come to see how it’s done.”
