2009 | Page 2 of 14 | Harper's Magazine

Archive: 2009

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Art by Ray Bartkus,

Findings

Among highly sociable stingless Brazilian bees, a quarter of males—who can develop from unfertilized eggs—were found to be the sons of workers and not of the queen; because worker bees…

The shingle

by Harper’s Staff,

Ways of not seeing

by Mark Kingwell,

On the limits of design fetishism

The Worst of Times

by Arthur Krystal,

Revisiting the Great Depression

New books

by Benjamin Moser,

Prosperous friends

by Christine Schutt,

About Motorcycles

by Frederick Seidel,

My father was a hunchback. He had an accident on his bicycle when he was a child, which ended with his falling into a coal cellar, a fall of thirty…

Voodoo Academics

by Christopher Beha,

Brandeis University's hard lesson in the real economy

The Intelligence Factory

by Petra Bartosiewicz,

How America makes its enemies disappear

Winter stories #15

by Paolo Ventura,

Winter stories #39

by Paolo Ventura,

Winter stories #17

by Paolo Ventura,

Winter stories #9

by Paolo Ventura,

Winter stories

by Paolo Ventura,

Winter stories #23

by Paolo Ventura,