= Subscribers only. Sign in here. Subscribe here.

= Subscribers only.
Sign in here.
Subscribe here.

1979 / September | View All Issues |

September 1979

illustration

Front cover PDF

Untitled

= Subscribers only.
Sign in here.
Subscribe here.


Letters

4-5 PDF

Letters

= Subscribers only.
Sign in here.
Subscribe here.

The easy chair

6, 12-13 PDF

Blindman’s bluff

= Subscribers only.
Sign in here.
Subscribe here.

The lost sight of the imagination

Article

16-18, 22 PDF

Of two minds about abortion

= Subscribers only.
Sign in here.
Subscribe here.

Bringing mixed motives to bed

Article

33-34, 36-37 PDF

A proper education

= Subscribers only.
Sign in here.
Subscribe here.

The trade-off between method and motive

Lines of sight

67 PDF

Energy independence

= Subscribers only.
Sign in here.
Subscribe here.

Lines of sight

67 PDF

Lines of sight

= Subscribers only.
Sign in here.
Subscribe here.

Fiction

68-74 PDF

Rendezvous with Margret or

= Subscribers only.
Sign in here.
Subscribe here.

Happy ending

In our time

75 PDF

In our time

= Subscribers only.
Sign in here.
Subscribe here.

In our time

75 PDF

In our time

= Subscribers only.
Sign in here.
Subscribe here.

Article

76-81 PDF

Images of anonymity

= Subscribers only.
Sign in here.
Subscribe here.

World War II in black and white

Poetry

82 PDF

There are things I tell to no one but to the poem

= Subscribers only.
Sign in here.
Subscribe here.

Movies

86-92 PDF

Gooseflesh

= Subscribers only.
Sign in here.
Subscribe here.

The strange turn toward horror

Movies

86-92 PDF

Movies

= Subscribers only.
Sign in here.
Subscribe here.

In print

99-100 PDF

Ineffable pleasures

= Subscribers only.
Sign in here.
Subscribe here.

The variety of short stories

In print

99-100 PDF

In print

= Subscribers only.
Sign in here.
Subscribe here.

The fourth estate

101-104 PDF

The fourth estate

= Subscribers only.
Sign in here.
Subscribe here.

American miscellany

105-107 PDF

American miscellany

= Subscribers only.
Sign in here.
Subscribe here.

Puzzle

110 PDF

Stereo components

= 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