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Article — From the November 2007 issue
Memoir and the art of memory
By Joel Agee
Review — From the January 2006 issue
The Nazi era and the challenge of film
By Joel Agee
Article — From the February 2001 issue
When home is not where the homeland is
By Joel Agee
Article — From the February 1996 issue
The Christos’ embrace of the Reichstag
By Joel Agee
Article — From the January 1994 issue
Shipping out to see the world, but still seeing Sylvia
By Joel Agee
Article — From the January 1989 issue
How the sixties erupted in one man’s life
By Joel Agee
Readings — From the January 1989 issue
By Esther Vilar, Joel Agee (Translator)
Readings — From the April 1988 issue
By Friedrich Dürrenmatt, Joel Agee (Translator)
Article — From the August 1986 issue
By Peter Schneider, Joel Agee (Translator)
In print — From the January 1982 issue
Nabokov’s strange view of literature
By Joel Agee

Ratio of the number of cicada eggs per square mile of southern New Jersey to the number of stars in the Milky Way:
Jeffrey Lockwood, University of Wyoming (Laramie)/American Museum of Natural History (N.Y.C.)

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.
© 2012 Harper’s Magazine. Logo photograph (detail) by Aaron Huey.

