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

[October 1851]
The Town-Ho’s Story
By Herman Melville

[June 1902]
The Quicksand
By Edith Wharton

[April 1909]
The Enchanted Bluff 
By Willa Cather

[February 1934]
Wash
By William Faulkner

[April 1973]
Everyday Use
By Alice Walker

[September 1983]
The War and Michael K
By J. M. Coetzee

[October 1992]
Pafko at the Wall
By Don DeLillo

[June 1994]
Honored Guest
By Joy Williams

[January 1995]
Sleep
By Stephen Dixon

[March 1998]
Lucky Ducks
By Lorrie Moore

[November 1999]
Brownies 
By ZZ Packer

[November 2005]
In Persuasion Nation
By George Saunders

[September 2012]
Batman and Robin Have an Altercation
By Stephen King

[November 2014]
Climbers
By Helen DeWitt

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