= Subscribers only. Sign in here. Subscribe here.

= Subscribers only.
Sign in here.
Subscribe here.

1955 / January | View All Issues |

January 1955

illustration

Front cover PDF

Untitled

= Subscribers only.
Sign in here.
Subscribe here.


Letters

4, 6, 8, 10 PDF

Letters

= Subscribers only.
Sign in here.
Subscribe here.

The easy chair

12-15, 17 PDF

One-way partnership derailed

= Subscribers only.
Sign in here.
Subscribe here.

Personal and otherwise

20-21 PDF

The ghost that won’t lie down

= Subscribers only.
Sign in here.
Subscribe here.

Personal and otherwise

21-22 PDF

[various]

= Subscribers only.
Sign in here.
Subscribe here.

Personal and otherwise

22 PDF

Prescription for congressmen

= Subscribers only.
Sign in here.
Subscribe here.

Article

25-32 PDF

The future of Mendès-France

= Subscribers only.
Sign in here.
Subscribe here.

Article

32 PDF

But would he fit into the team?

= Subscribers only.
Sign in here.
Subscribe here.

Article

Front cover, 33-40 PDF

The California culture

= Subscribers only.
Sign in here.
Subscribe here.

Article

41-46 PDF

The trouble with engineers

= Subscribers only.
Sign in here.
Subscribe here.

Poetry

46 PDF

Of Mrs. Bird Bishop and the beyond

= Subscribers only.
Sign in here.
Subscribe here.

Article

47-51 PDF

A slight case of adjustment

= Subscribers only.
Sign in here.
Subscribe here.

Article

52-58 PDF

The faults of American diplomacy

= Subscribers only.
Sign in here.
Subscribe here.

Article

66-67 PDF

Tell me, Mr. Attorney . . .

= Subscribers only.
Sign in here.
Subscribe here.

Fiction

68-75 PDF

The destructors

= Subscribers only.
Sign in here.
Subscribe here.

A story

Poetry

75 PDF

Speakable bâcle

= Subscribers only.
Sign in here.
Subscribe here.

After hours

85-87 PDF

To the barricades

= Subscribers only.
Sign in here.
Subscribe here.

After hours

87 PDF

Opera season, to taste

= Subscribers only.
Sign in here.
Subscribe here.

After hours

87 PDF

Small jars and bottles

= Subscribers only.
Sign in here.
Subscribe here.

The new books

90, 92, 94, 96, 98 PDF

Particle and pattern

= Subscribers only.
Sign in here.
Subscribe here.

Books in brief

98-101 PDF

Books in brief

= Subscribers only.
Sign in here.
Subscribe here.

Books in brief

101 PDF

Forecast

= Subscribers only.
Sign in here.
Subscribe here.

[Coming in Harper's]

101 PDF

[Coming in Harper's]

= Subscribers only.
Sign in here.
Subscribe here.

The new recordings

102-104 PDF

The new recordings

= Subscribers only.
Sign in here.
Subscribe here.

The new recordings

102-104 PDF

Sound-spaces

= Subscribers only.
Sign in here.
Subscribe here.

I. The listening window

Get access to 163 years of
Harper’s for only $19.97

United States Canada

THE CURRENT ISSUE

July 2013

Glaciers for Sale

= Subscribers only.
Sign in here.
Subscribe here.

Blood Spore

= Subscribers only.
Sign in here.
Subscribe here.

Other Types of Poison

= Subscribers only.
Sign in here.
Subscribe here.

May I Touch Your Hair?

= Subscribers only.
Sign in here.
Subscribe here.

view Table Content

FEATURED ON HARPERS.ORG

[Editor's Note]
A global-warming get-rich-quick scheme, a magic-mushroom murder,
and more
[Report]
Glaciers for Sale

= Subscribers only.
Sign in here.
Subscribe here.

“Water is the medium of climate change — the ice that melts, the seas that rise. It is also an early indicator of how humanity may respond to climate change: by financializing it.”
Photograph (detail) by Aaron Huey
[Personal and Otherwise]
Photograph With Shirley

= Subscribers only.
Sign in here.
Subscribe here.

The author writes about the inspiration for “May I Touch Your Hair?,” in the July issue
“When you look at Shirley’s face, and what’s going on — that’s why they’d rather see a photograph than read.”
Photograph by Philip Shan
[Harper's Finest]
What the Young Man Should Know

= Subscribers only.
Sign in here.
Subscribe here.

From the March 1933 issue
“I submit that he who cannot do these things is not completely educated.”
Illustration by Elizabeth Shippen Green (1902)
[Folio]
Blood Spore

= Subscribers only.
Sign in here.
Subscribe here.

“The strange timing of Pollock’s murder begot paranoia of all shades and textures . . .”
Photograph by Paul Stamets

Percentage by which the risk of type 2 diabetes increases for every two hours a day that a person watches television:

20

Two bottled ghosts—of an old man and a young girl—were sold at auction in New Zealand.

The practice of sexualized eyeball licking was causing conjunctivitis in Japanese sixth graders.

Subscribe to the Weekly Review newsletter. Don’t worry, we won’t sell your email address!

HARPER’S FINEST

The Coming Ice Age

By

A true scientific detective story
Subscribe Today