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Harper's Finest — May 21, 2013, 3:09 pm

Wil S. Hylton’s “Broken Heartland” (2012)

The looming collapse of agriculture on the Great Plains

Harper's Finest — May 20, 2013, 9:00 am

Gary Greenberg’s “Manufacturing Depression” (2007)

“This is the heart of the magic factory, the place where medicine is infused with the miracles of science.”

“The Distraught Queen of Butterflies,” by Ernst Kreidolf (thumb)

Harper's Finest — March 21, 2013, 6:06 pm

Harper’s Magazine on the Iraq War

Tracing our coverage of the war, from Lewis H. Lapham to Andrew J. Bacevich 

IED Attack, by Steve Mumford (thumb)

Harper's Finest — February 27, 2013, 9:01 am

T. C. Boyle’s “My Pain Is Worse Than Your Pain” (2010)

A classic short story about the desperate acts and philosophical consolations of a middle-aged man who has become romantically obsessed with one of his neighbors.

Illustration by Katherine Streeter

Harper's Finest — January 30, 2013, 2:50 pm

Elizabeth Hardwick’s “The Decline of Book Reviewing” (1959)

A core piece in the canon of criticism on criticism

A Neat and Shrivelled Gentleman Sat at a Desk, January 1906 (thumb)

Harper's Finest — December 23, 2012, 4:08 pm

Captain Wilfrid Ewart’s “Two Christmas Mornings of the Great War”

Accounts of the legendary frontline ceasefires on Christmas Day between British and German soldiers

Soldiers During World War I

Harper's Finest — November 20, 2012, 2:30 pm

Bob Shacochis’s “Written in the Big Wind”

Why development persists in coastal areas, despite the threat of hurricanes

Hurricane Hugo, 1989

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