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Disappearing Act

by Jonathan Dee,

Mark Leyner’s self-consuming fictions

A Foreign Cause

Why the Spanish Civil War feels so distant

Primatologists described an episode among Bornean orangutans (Pongo pygmaeus wurmbii) wherein Ekko, a male, sexually inspected Sidony, an old female, then changed his mind and began to mate with Kondor,…

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by Thomas Allen,

Letters

Editor’s Note This month we are introducing three changes to the regular format of Harper’s Magazine. In the Readings section, the usual found documents and fine art are accompanied by…

Bird in a Cage

by Rebecca Solnit,

There are two things I think about nearly every time I row out into San Francisco Bay. One is a passage from Shankar Vedantam’s The Hidden Brain, in which he…

Harper’s Index

Percentage of refugees resettled in 2014 who were taken in by developing countries : 86 Amount in excess of which the cash assets of refugees will be seized under a proposed Danish…

Introduction

Last fall, young people gathered in protest at dozens of universities across the country. Students of color spoke about feeling unwelcome or invisible, of being stereotyped, slighted, excluded, harassed. One…

Weary Oracle

by Dawn Lundy Martin,

By Dawn Lundy Martin. Martin is the author of four books of poetry, including Good Stock, which will be published by Coffee House Press in 2016. She teaches at the…

Blanket Security

by Thomas Chatterton Williams,

By Thomas Chatterton Williams. Williams is the author of the memoir Losing My Cool, published by Penguin Press in 2010.

A Kind of Grace

by Hannah Black,

By Hannah Black. Black is an artist and writer from the U.K. She is the author of Dark Pool Party, which was published last month by Dominica/Arcadia Missa.

Common Cause

by Alix Rule,

By Alix Rule. Rule is a doctoral student in sociology at Columbia University.

Political Correction

by Osita Nwanevu,

By Osita Nwanevu. Nwanevu is a recent graduate of the University of Chicago and the editor of the South Side Weekly.

We Out Here

by Wesley Yang,

By Wesley Yang. Yang has written for New York magazine, the New York Times, and n+1. He is at work on his first book.

Double Shadow LIV

by John Stezaker,

Imaginary August

by C.D. Wright,

By C. D. Wright (1949–2016), from ShallCross, which will be published next month by Copper Canyon Press. Wright was the author of more than a dozen volumes of poetry. She…

Signed and Dated

by Erica Boas, Jason A. Laker,

From a relationship contract created by a first-year male undergraduate and signed by him and a girlfriend. The contract is part of ongoing research for Consent Stories, a project by…

Apple Tree

by Alex Kanevsky,

A Child to the State

by Jacqueline Waters,

By Jacqueline Waters, from Commodore, which will be published next year by Ugly Duckling Presse. Waters is the author of two previous volumes of poetry, including, most recently, One Sleeps…

Parties Foul

by Laura Bates,

From themes of parties that have been held by college students in the United States and the U.K., collected by Laura Bates. Her book Everyday Sexism will be published in…

Never Never Man

by Laurencia Perales Blum,

From “Severe Growing-Up Phobia,” a paper that was coauthored by Laurencia Perales Blum and published in Case Reports in Psychiatry, in 2014. The paper discusses a Mexican boy who suffered…

White Rhino, Namibia, 2015

by Maroesjka Lavigne,

The Hidden Rivers of Brooklyn

by Elizabeth Royte,

From behind a parapet on the tower of Litchfield Villa, the Italianate mansion that marks the western edge of Brooklyn’s Prospect Park, I was barely able to make out —…

Save Our Public Universities

by Marilynne Robinson,

In defense of America’s best idea

The Rogue Agency

by Christopher Ketcham,

A USDA program that tortures dogs and kills endangered species

About the Fox and the Fox-hunters

by Thomas Bangs Thorpe,

The fox at last felt the necessity of a run for his life, for he mounted the bluff, stopped a moment to breathe the fresh air, and chose his course…

Mad Magazines

by Jonathan Guyer,

Underground comics come to Egypt

The Drums of Marrakesh

by Mark McMorris,

A Jamaican-born poet chain-smokes as he listens to a circle of drummers in the old market of Marrakesh, circa 2015. The drums sound in the present, but they also sound…

Killer Bunny in the Sky

by Jay Kirk,

A drone war begins between vegans and hunters

Archive: 2016

Disappearing Act

A Foreign Cause

Stereo Components

Findings

(Untitled)

Letters

Bird in a Cage

Harper’s Index

Introduction

Weary Oracle

Blanket Security

A Kind of Grace

Common Cause

Political Correction

We Out Here

Double Shadow LIV

Imaginary August

Signed and Dated

Apple Tree

A Child to the State

Parties Foul

Never Never Man

White Rhino, Namibia, 2015

The Hidden Rivers of Brooklyn

Save Our Public Universities

The Rogue Agency

About the Fox and the Fox-hunters

Mad Magazines

The Drums of Marrakesh

Killer Bunny in the Sky

Debug

Archive: 2016

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Disappearing Act

A Foreign Cause

Stereo Components

Findings

(Untitled)

Letters

Bird in a Cage

Harper’s Index

Introduction

Weary Oracle

Blanket Security

A Kind of Grace

Common Cause

Political Correction

We Out Here

Double Shadow LIV

Imaginary August

Signed and Dated

Apple Tree

A Child to the State

Parties Foul

Never Never Man

White Rhino, Namibia, 2015

The Hidden Rivers of Brooklyn

Save Our Public Universities

The Rogue Agency

About the Fox and the Fox-hunters

Mad Magazines

The Drums of Marrakesh

Killer Bunny in the Sky

April 2016

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