= Subscribers only. Sign in here. Subscribe here.

= Subscribers only.
Sign in here.
Subscribe here.

1964 / February | View All Issues |

February 1964

illustration

Front cover PDF

Untitled

= Subscribers only.
Sign in here.
Subscribe here.


Letters

6, 8, 10, 12 PDF

Letters

= Subscribers only.
Sign in here.
Subscribe here.

The editor's easy chair

16, 21-22, 24, 26 PDF

Why nobody can’t write good

= Subscribers only.
Sign in here.
Subscribe here.

Poetry

21 PDF

To hell with revising, I’m writing a new poem

= Subscribers only.
Sign in here.
Subscribe here.

After hours

28, 30, 32 PDF

Los Angeles’ cultural circus

= Subscribers only.
Sign in here.
Subscribe here.

Article

37-45 PDF

A draftee’s diary from the Mississippi front

= Subscribers only.
Sign in here.
Subscribe here.

Article

46-49 PDF

Captain Really and the fabulous stair-mounter

= Subscribers only.
Sign in here.
Subscribe here.

Article

Front cover, 50-53 PDF

What psychiatry can and cannot do

= Subscribers only.
Sign in here.
Subscribe here.

Article

54-56 PDF

The tender violence of Pedro Martinez

= Subscribers only.
Sign in here.
Subscribe here.

Collection

54-60 PDF

The tender violence of Pedro Martinez

= Subscribers only.
Sign in here.
Subscribe here.

Article

56-60 PDF

Pedro’s story

= Subscribers only.
Sign in here.
Subscribe here.

Fiction

61-64 PDF

A sacrifice

= Subscribers only.
Sign in here.
Subscribe here.

A story

Article

65-68, 71-72 PDF

The long battle between art and the machine

= Subscribers only.
Sign in here.
Subscribe here.

Poetry

72 PDF

November 25, 1963

= Subscribers only.
Sign in here.
Subscribe here.

Article

73-76, 78-80 PDF

Harold Wilson’s Britain

= Subscribers only.
Sign in here.
Subscribe here.

Article

82-85, 90-93 PDF

Second thoughts on the religious revival

= Subscribers only.
Sign in here.
Subscribe here.

Poetry

93 PDF

Poem for the Bank of America, Westlake Branch

= Subscribers only.
Sign in here.
Subscribe here.

Cartoon

94-95 PDF

New York

= Subscribers only.
Sign in here.
Subscribe here.

Article

96-98, 100-102 PDF

Small rebellion in Miami

= Subscribers only.
Sign in here.
Subscribe here.

Washington insight

104, 107-108, 110 PDF

The Grand Design revisited

= Subscribers only.
Sign in here.
Subscribe here.

A legacy with life

The new books

111-112, 114-117 PDF

The way we feel now

= Subscribers only.
Sign in here.
Subscribe here.

[Coming in Harper's]

114 PDF

Coming in Harper’s

= Subscribers only.
Sign in here.
Subscribe here.

Books in brief

117-119 PDF

Books in brief

= Subscribers only.
Sign in here.
Subscribe here.

Music in the round

120-121 PDF

Fifteen old violins

= Subscribers only.
Sign in here.
Subscribe here.

Jazz notes

121 PDF

Jazz notes

= Subscribers only.
Sign in here.
Subscribe here.

Jazz notes

121 PDF

Civil rites

= Subscribers only.
Sign in here.
Subscribe here.

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
[Harper's Finest]
The Coming Ice Age

= Subscribers only.
Sign in here.
Subscribe here.

“How a rising of the ocean waters may flood most of our port cities within the foreseeable future . . .”
“The Glacier of Sermitsialik” (1872)
[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

Ratio of the number of cicada eggs per square mile of southern New Jersey to the number of stars in the Milky Way:

4:5

A Singaporean company unveiled Kissenger, a pair of plastic lips mounted on a large plastic egg, which transmits real-time interactive kisses to a distant lover. “I am not interested in the sexual uses for it,” said the device’s inventor. “We’ve taken several steps to minimize the creepiness.”

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