In the mid-Nineties, I spent about eighteen months working as an editor for the British edition of a new magazine called Wired, which had been founded in San Francisco as…

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Trumpism and the American philosophical tradition

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A departure yard in Chicago (detail), December 1942, by Jack Delano. Courtesy Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Leave the two men stranded along the railroad tracks outside Chicago,…

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Atmospheric warming is shrinking the diurnal temperature range, the septic systems of Nags Head are failing as sea levels rise, and PFAS are damaging the immune systems of Cape Fear…

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A solar land rush in the West

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Three’s a Crowd I greatly appreciated Andrew Cockburn’s piece about the enduring views of my husband, Walter Karp [“Party Walls,” Letter from Washington, November]. Throughout his career, Walter articulated ideas…

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Keep your mind in hell, and despair not

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The art of urine in the age of fulfillment

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Colonies popped out of empire like mushrooms Coral reefs thinned out their amenities, the entire pluck Could be removed en masse for complete evaluation Daughter landed wrong at the bottom…

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Malaga Girl, Navigation of Bones, by Daniel Minter © The artist. Courtesy Greenhut Galleries, Portland, Maine Like William Faulkner’s Yoknapatawpha County or Marilynne Robinson’s Gilead, Paul Harding’s imaginary New England…

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From The Last Pomegranate Tree, which was published this month by Archipelago Books. Translated from the Kurdish. One evening, Muhammad the Glass-Hearted sets off for a meeting with an antique…

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On Cormac McCarthy

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See the solution to last month’s puzzle.

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From The Half Known Life, which will be published this month by Riverhead Books. Four hours in Iran, and already I was having to rethink almost everything. The local guide…

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From “Sitting-Down Literature,” which was written in 1970 and is included in The Written World and the Unwritten World, out this month from Mariner Books. Translated from the Italian. Sitting…

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From What Have You Left Behind?, which will be published next month by Fitzcarraldo Editions. This account was given by Fatima Mohammed Salam, whose husband was killed in 2015 following…

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From a recruitment speech given at a Russian prison by the leader of the Wagner Group, a mercenary company that operates as a proxy for the Russian government. Footage of…

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From “Save Penn Station,” which was published in Issue 31 of the New York Review of Architecture. “Hellhole” was the word that New York governor Kathy Hochul used for the…

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From an October meeting held during the trial of Paul Bellar, Joseph Morrison, and Pete Musico in Michigan’s Fourth Circuit Court. The men were accused of assisting in a plot…

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From actions people have publicly defended with the phrase “hindsight is twenty-twenty.” Getting drunk during an interview with Playboy magazine Failing to complete a two-point conversion against the Wilcox High…

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From Dragons, which will be published in March by Farrar, Straus and Giroux. A fourth grader sees the fox skulking behind the Climatron as something from the rural past, Reynard,…

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From an announcement made to passengers by a pilot for Southwest Airlines in August. So here’s the deal: If this continues while we’re on the ground, I’m going to have…

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From a press conference held by the New York City mayor’s office in October. commissioner jessica tisch: Good afternoon. It is an exciting day because we are about to do…

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A Ukrainian artillery shell inscribed with a message paid for by an American donor. Other messages purchased by Americans include: rest in piss orcs, this one’s a gay bomb, does…

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From a class-action lawsuit filed in September against T.W. Garner Food Company, the North Carolina–based manufacturer of Texas Pete hot sauce. In the United States, the most common style of…

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In Memoriam Harper’s Magazine is deeply saddened by the death of our dear friend and longtime contributing editor Barbara Ehrenreich (1941–2022). Her classic book Nickel and Dimed, which chronicles the…

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Funeral Pyre, by Rockwell Kent © Plattsburgh State Art Museum, State University of New York. Bequest of Sally Kent Gorton. Purchased with the Lola Downin Peck Fund from the Carl…

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A few months ago I introduced a screening of Robert Frank’s rarely shown and somewhat notorious film Cocksucker Blues at a cinema house in Los Angeles. Legally, the film can…

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