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The best from one hundred seventy-five years of Harper’s Magazine.

[February 1906]
New York Revisited I 
By Henry James

[December 1934]
Was My Life Worth Living?
By Emma Goldman

[March 1941]
One Man’s Meat 
By E. B. White

[August 1964]
Harlem Is Nowhere
By Ralph Ellison

[May 1987]
The Next Panic
Fear and trembling on Wall Street.
By L. J. Davis

[January 1987]
Imagine Paris 
A city, a walk, a metaphor.
By John Berger

[February 1993]
Mirrorings
A gaze upon my reconstructed face.
By Lucy Grealy

[October 2002]
Horseman, Pass By 
Glory, grief, and the race for the Triple Crown.
By John Jeremiah Sullivan

[October 2004]
They Came Out Like Ants! 
Searching for the Chinese tunnels of Mexicali.
By William T. Vollmann

[March 2008]
Mississippi Drift 
River vagrants in the age of Wal-Mart.
By Matthew Power

[September 2011]
Deep in the Bowl
Memory of a shrinking city.
By Darryl Pinckney

[October 2012]
Contest of Words
High school debate and the demise of public speech.
By Ben Lerner

[June 2016]
The Old Man
A writer remembers his father.
By David Means

[January 2021]
These Precious Days 
Tell me how the story ends.
By Ann Patchett

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