My grandfather was a man who didn’t like to compromise. A rural Welsh boy who had made it to Cambridge University and then on to a career as a scientist,…
From Notes from the Passenger, which was published in May by Nightboat Books. If all experience is mystical the white spruce swayed in the window branch by branch almost to…
From Tabula Rasa, Volume 1, a collection of his unrealized reporting projects, which was published this month by Farrar, Straus and Giroux. A sprawling ranch on several acres has a…
From discontinued products included in the Museum of Failure’s collection, which was on display last month in New York City. A television remote with eighty-eight buttons A flip phone that…
From headlines published by the Guardian since 2009. Pablo Escobar’s hippos can restore a lost world Pablo Escobar’s hippos are people too Pablo Escobar’s hippos to cost Colombia $3.5 million Pablo…
From articles by Anne Applebaum published in The Atlantic since 2021. Applebaum is a staff writer at The Atlantic and a senior fellow at the SNF Agora Institute, which is…
From the introduction to The Family Diary, a 2024 planner edited by Julian Rothenstein, which was published last month by Redstone Press. If, when a child is growing up, it…
From “Dear Employee,” which was published in Issue 80 of Conjunctions. The announcement came in the mail: effective immediately, everyone was assigned a new job. Pay was $0 a week.…
From The Entanglement, which was published last month by Princeton University Press. When she dances, a young child already moves her body with a sensitivity to what is expected of…
Now he’s watching scarves of cloud slide over the plane’s steel wing. Surely it’s real, this swirl of light. But the visions that confront him do not enter his life.…
Pen remembers it all. It was 1968. They took a family vacation to Sanibel. Pen’s father drove the station wagon. He held the wheel tightly and gritted his teeth and…
At stake was more than some Caribbean island. America itself, one elder statesman informed the president, faced a crucial test “in the great struggle between liberty and despotism.” Would the…
In the fall of 2014 I began attending hearings, some of them banal and procedural, others more emotional, for a Los Angeles murder trial that was cranking its way through…
Photographs by Lisa Elmaleh for Harper’s Magazine © The artist I was splitting wood at sunset when the cat jumped up on the chopping block in front of me, arched…