Portion of Americans who wouldn’t be “at all surprised” if the genocide of a religious group occurred in the United States : 1/3 Who believe that society should be “burned…

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From 97,196 Words, a collection of the author’s non-fiction writing, published this month by Farrar, Straus and Giroux. This story was written as a statement of intent for a film…

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From an interview with Vladimir Nabokov conducted by Alberto Ongaro in 1966 for L’Europeo, included in Think, Write, Speak: Uncollected Essays, Reviews, Interviews, and Letters to the Editor, a book…

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From interviews of two residents of the Ibis Golf and Country Club by Palm Beach Post reporter Tony Doris. Doris interviewed the homeowners, Siobhan Casimano and Cheryl Katz, after Casimano…

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From Night Boat to Tangier, a novel published in September by Doubleday. At the Café Central, in Plaza de la Constitución, he drank café solo and waited. Around him there was…

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From descriptions of behaviors of magistrates at the Virginia Beach Magistrate Office. The accusations were included in a complaint filed this year by a female magistrate against the Office of…

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From Daybook 1918: Early Fragments, which was published in September by Northwestern University Press. Foix (1893–1987) was a poet and a journalist engaged in the Catalan nationalist movement. Edited and…

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“Untitled #8, To Want for Nothing,” and “Untitled #3, To Want for Nothing,” photographs by Laura Letinsky, whose work was on view last month at Yancey Richardson, in New York…

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A venison of loveliness, a painting by Sanam Khatibi, whose work is on view this month at P.P.O.W., in New York City. Courtesy the artist; Rodolphe Janssen, Brussels; and P.P.O.W.,…

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“Lucy Watering at Night, 1973,” a photograph by Michael Jang, from his monograph, Who Is Michael Jang?, which was published in September by Atelier Éditions. Jang’s work is on view…

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Louder, Power Tower, and Street Light, paintings by An Gyungsu, whose work was on view in June at PIBI Gallery, in Seoul. Courtesy the artist and PIBI Gallery, Seoul

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Is there a masculine cure for toxic masculinity?

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I have known cowboys broken in body and twisted in spirit, bruised by debt, failure, loneliness, disease, and most of the other afflictions of man, but I have seldom known…

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Why we miss the WASPs

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Maladaptive decadence in the Amazon basin

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Big Philanthropy’s bid to privatize education

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The future of salmon in the Pacific Northwest

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A battle to restore my vision

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how high? that high He had his stick that was used mostly to point at your head if your head wasn’t held up proudly. I still like that man—Holger! He…

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On the morning of my friend’s funeral, my period arrived two weeks early and with a sudden force that ruined the black clothing I’d brought and the rickety chair I…

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The gospel according to John (and Karen)

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America’s new poetry of place

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Rising temperatures will make Muslims’ pilgrimages to Mecca increasingly dangerous, will cause Appalachian salamanders to use their regenerating ability as a heat buffer, will hurt New Hampshire salamanders by decreasing…

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Friend: Jana, a mixed-media artwork by Ann Toebbe, whose work was on view in July at Tibor de Nagy Gallery, in New York City. Courtesy the artist and Tibor De…

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In Memoriam We at Harper’s Magazine are deeply saddened by the untimely death of our former contributing editor Edwin Dobb. He wrote many essays for the magazine, including “Pennies from…

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“Nationalism” is rapidly overtaking even “populism” as a foremost political bogeyman. Yet progressives will often still embrace “pa­tri­ot­ism.” The elevation of the last term is meant to deflect Trump-­style accusations…

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From an interview with Neil Davidson published in the Summer 2019 issue of New Politics. Davidson teaches at the University of Glasgow. His most recent book, We Cannot Escape History,…

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From The Collector of Leftover Souls, a collection of non-fiction published this month by Graywolf Press. This story, first published in the Brazilian magazine Época, is based on a week the…

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