Christian Lorentzen, Author at Harper's Magazine

From this author

[Report]

Books! The Podcast

On the state of publishing and the failed merger of Simon & Schuster and Penguin Random House

Host Violet Lucca,Guest Christian Lorentzen

[Podcast]

Christopher Hitchens

Examining the commentator’s pre-internet celebrity, writing, and legacy

Host Violet Lucca,Guest Christian Lorentzen, Maureen Tkacik, Luke Savage

[Reviews]

Boston Gothic

Atticus Lish’s novel of illness, masculinity, and murder

by Christian Lorentzen,

[A Special Supplement]

by Charles Yu, Mike Jaccarino, A. S. Hamrah, Eileen Myles, Judith Martin, Olivia Laing, Yinka Elujoba, Lauren Oyler, Jane Hu, Liane Carlson, David Owen, Christian Lorentzen, Christopher Beha,

[Reviews]

Coetzee’s Radical Masterpiece

On the Jesus trilogy

by Christian Lorentzen,

[Criticism]

Like This or Die

The fate of the book review in the age of the algorithm

by Christian Lorentzen,

[Weekly Review]

Weekly Review

Democrats were outvoting Republicans in all nine states that track the party affiliations of early voters, indicating a likely election victory for Barack Obama. George Mason University“It’s gonna get nasty,”…

by Christian Lorentzen,

[Weekly Review]

Weekly Review

Radovan Karadzic was arrested in Belgrade and awaits imminent extradition to The Hague, where he will face charges of genocide for his role in the Srebrenica massacres and the siege…

by Christian Lorentzen,

[Weekly Review]

Weekly Review

The Supreme Court ruled 5â??4 that detainees held as “enemy combatants” by the United States in Guantanamo Bay,Cuba, have a constitutional right to challenge their detention through habeas corpus petitions…

by Christian Lorentzen,

[Weekly Review]

Weekly Review

Scott McClellan published a memoir about his stint as President George W. Bush‘s press secretary from July 2003 to April 2006. In the book, McClellan says that he does not…

by Christian Lorentzen,

[Weekly Review]

Weekly Review

Hillary Clinton gained nine more delegates than Barack Obama in the Pennsylvania primary and challenged him to debate without a moderator. Obama, who declined, reportedly seemed “tired” and “brittle” campaigning…

by Christian Lorentzen,

[Weekly Review]

Weekly Review

After John McCain swept Republican contests in Ohio, Rhode Island,Texas, and Vermont and secured by some counts the delegates required for his party’s nomination, his rivals Mike Huckabee and Ron…

by Christian Lorentzen,

[Weekly Review]

Weekly Review

At 20 points along the Gaza Strip’s southern border, Hamas operatives detonated explosives to topple an Israeli-built fence, allowing as many as 200,000 Palestiniansâ??13 percent of the territory’s populationâ??to cross…

by Christian Lorentzen,

[Memento Mori]

Elizabeth Hardwick, 1916–2007

Elizabeth Hardwick died Sunday in Manhattan at the age of ninety-one. Between 1959 and 1969, she contributed essays and criticism to Harper’s Magazine, for a time taking over the New…

by Christian Lorentzen,

[Weekly Review]

Weekly Review

Teams of biologists in Japan and Wisconsin discovered new methods for transforming human skin cells into “induced pluripotent stem cells.” Both techniques employ a retrovirus to inject the cells with…

by Christian Lorentzen,

[Weekly Review]

Weekly Review

Turkey shelled the village of Dashta Takh in Iraqi Kurdistan and declared plans to send its ground troops to attack outposts of the Kurdish separatist PKK in the north of…

by Christian Lorentzen,

[Weekly Review]

Weekly Review

In the midst of a brief thunderstorm that transfixed the New York City subway system and killed one motorist, a tornado formed over the Atlantic Ocean, grazed the north coast…

by Christian Lorentzen,

[Weekly Review]

Weekly Review

Tony Blair alighted on a mission to bring cohesion to Palestinian institutions,Jerusalem Postand his successor Gordon Brown proposed stripping British prime ministers of the power to declare war.

by Christian Lorentzen,

[Weekly Review]

Weekly Review

Former CIA Director George Tenet published a book accusing the Bush Administration of taking his phrase “slam dunk”â??referring to intelligence that Saddam Hussein possessed weapons of mass destructionâ??out of context…

by Christian Lorentzen,

[Weekly Review]

Weekly Review

In a videoconference with Hong Kong investors, former Federal Reserve chairman Alan Greenspan said that America might sink into recession by year’s end; a frenzied worldwide sell-off ensued. The Shanghai…

by Christian Lorentzen,

[Weekly Review]

Weekly Review

Federal agents in Missouri found two kidnapped adolescent boys in the apartment of Michael Devlin, a 41-year-old pizzeria manager. “I still feel like I’m in a dream, only this time…

by Christian Lorentzen,

[Weekly Review]

Weekly Review

Hezbollah declared victory in its 34-day war with Israel. “I guess,” said President George W. Bush, “I would have done the same thing if I were them.” Prime Minister Ehud…

by Christian Lorentzen,

[Readings]

Limnphomaniac

The following lines were culled from Michiko Kakutani’s New York Times book reviews by Christian Lorentzen. In some cases, tenses have been changed. Limn an entire life in a couple…

by Christian Lorentzen,

Christian Lorentzen

From this author

At Random

The business of books and the merger that wasn’t

Books! The Podcast

On the state of publishing and the failed merger of Simon & Schuster and Penguin Random House

Christopher Hitchens

Examining the commentator’s pre-internet celebrity, writing, and legacy

The Enemy of Promise

What time did to Christopher Hitchens

Boston Gothic

Atticus Lish’s novel of illness, masculinity, and murder

Life After Trump

Reality after trumpTabloids after trump Movies after trump Relationships after trump Manners after trump Imagination after trump Gold after trump Conversation after trump Punctuation after trump Apologies after trump Golf…

Coetzee’s Radical Masterpiece

On the Jesus trilogy

Like This or Die

The fate of the book review in the age of the algorithm

Weekly Review

Democrats were outvoting Republicans in all nine states that track the party affiliations of early voters, indicating a likely election victory for Barack Obama. George Mason University“It’s gonna get nasty,”…

Weekly Review

Radovan Karadzic was arrested in Belgrade and awaits imminent extradition to The Hague, where he will face charges of genocide for his role in the Srebrenica massacres and the siege…

Weekly Review

The Supreme Court ruled 5â??4 that detainees held as “enemy combatants” by the United States in Guantanamo Bay,Cuba, have a constitutional right to challenge their detention through habeas corpus petitions…

Weekly Review

Scott McClellan published a memoir about his stint as President George W. Bush‘s press secretary from July 2003 to April 2006. In the book, McClellan says that he does not…

Weekly Review

Hillary Clinton gained nine more delegates than Barack Obama in the Pennsylvania primary and challenged him to debate without a moderator. Obama, who declined, reportedly seemed “tired” and “brittle” campaigning…

Weekly Review

After John McCain swept Republican contests in Ohio, Rhode Island,Texas, and Vermont and secured by some counts the delegates required for his party’s nomination, his rivals Mike Huckabee and Ron…

Weekly Review

At 20 points along the Gaza Strip’s southern border, Hamas operatives detonated explosives to topple an Israeli-built fence, allowing as many as 200,000 Palestiniansâ??13 percent of the territory’s populationâ??to cross…

Elizabeth Hardwick, 1916–2007

Elizabeth Hardwick died Sunday in Manhattan at the age of ninety-one. Between 1959 and 1969, she contributed essays and criticism to Harper’s Magazine, for a time taking over the New…

Weekly Review

Teams of biologists in Japan and Wisconsin discovered new methods for transforming human skin cells into “induced pluripotent stem cells.” Both techniques employ a retrovirus to inject the cells with…

Weekly Review

Turkey shelled the village of Dashta Takh in Iraqi Kurdistan and declared plans to send its ground troops to attack outposts of the Kurdish separatist PKK in the north of…

Weekly Review

In the midst of a brief thunderstorm that transfixed the New York City subway system and killed one motorist, a tornado formed over the Atlantic Ocean, grazed the north coast…

Weekly Review

Tony Blair alighted on a mission to bring cohesion to Palestinian institutions,Jerusalem Postand his successor Gordon Brown proposed stripping British prime ministers of the power to declare war.

Weekly Review

Former CIA Director George Tenet published a book accusing the Bush Administration of taking his phrase “slam dunk”â??referring to intelligence that Saddam Hussein possessed weapons of mass destructionâ??out of context…

Weekly Review

In a videoconference with Hong Kong investors, former Federal Reserve chairman Alan Greenspan said that America might sink into recession by year’s end; a frenzied worldwide sell-off ensued. The Shanghai…

Weekly Review

Federal agents in Missouri found two kidnapped adolescent boys in the apartment of Michael Devlin, a 41-year-old pizzeria manager. “I still feel like I’m in a dream, only this time…

Weekly Review

Hezbollah declared victory in its 34-day war with Israel. “I guess,” said President George W. Bush, “I would have done the same thing if I were them.” Prime Minister Ehud…

Limnphomaniac

The following lines were culled from Michiko Kakutani’s New York Times book reviews by Christian Lorentzen. In some cases, tenses have been changed. Limn an entire life in a couple…

December 2003

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