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I was six the first time I recall setting foot in a funeral home, and I remember my confusion at the phrase—a home where none but the dead lived, and…

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Billie Holiday’s changeable shade

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Photograms by Shao-Feng Hsu, from the series Night Swimming, in which he captures his breathing patterns while swimming under the new moon © The artist Off the Five Finger Islands,…

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Vichy-Washy Robert O. Paxton writes expertly on France’s selective amnesia about the Vichy regime [“The Discreet Eminence,” Reviews, December]. But the French are not the only ones guilty of this;…

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A French activist I know, a person with a flair for assailing the idiocies of modern life, someone who pines, though not romantically, for a trapdoor to a better world,…

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From I Heard Her Call My Name: A Memoir of Transition, which was published this month by Penguin Press. For months I was preoccupied with the matter of my name.…

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From a list of reasons books should be removed from public schools, as updated in December by Bruce Friedman, who leads the Florida chapter of No Left Turn in Education.…

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From an interview of Tim Meyers, a retired cinema worker, conducted by Sebastian Becerra for the first issue of the zine Cashiers du Cinéma in August 2023. sebastian becerra: When…

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From an interview included in RoboDoc, a documentary series released in August about the making of the 1987 film RoboCop, which starred Peter Weller as a cybernetically enhanced police officer.…

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From entries in The Notebooks of Sonny Rollins, which will be published in April by New York Review Books. Another good day to think and be thankful for. There is…

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From Georgia’s August 2023 indictment of members of the grassroots movement Defend the Atlanta Forest, in which prosecutors charged more than sixty individuals under the Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations…

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From an account by Dr. Hammam Alloh that was told to Maya Rosen and published by Jewish Currents on October 30, 2023. Alloh was killed by an Israeli airstrike in…

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From leaflets distributed in Gaza by the Israel Defense Forces between October 13 and November 16, 2023. As of this writing, the United Nations estimates that more than 60 percent…

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From a fictional dialogue with his father in his novel Change, which will be published this month by Harvill Secker. Translated from the French by John Lambert. Before meeting Elena…

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From the original description of Need for Spirit Drink & Drive Simulator published in Nintendo’s online store in October. overview: Get ready to embark on a wild journey as a…

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From Another Room to Live In: 15 Contemporary Arab Poets, which will be published this month by Litmus Press. Translated from the Arabic by Sam Wilder. You can tell one…

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From a statement explaining the inclusion of a tape recorder in the Museum of Broken Relationships in Zagreb, Croatia. In 1968, exactly fifty years ago, my father passed away, leaving…

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On the ruinous history of Religious Zionism

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From the Editor’s Notebook that appeared in the June 1988 issue of Harper’s Magazine. The complete article—along with the magazine’s entire 173-year archive—is available online at harpers.org/archive. The news from…

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Creation in Genesis

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The trials of trucking school

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On the resurrection of the body

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Carrie Sun used to be on the side of Big Money. Her memoir, Private Equity (Penguin Press, $29), describes her disillusioning tenure as an assistant to Boone Prescott, the founder…

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The elusive fiction of Phyllis Paul

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