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Donovan Hohn

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These Little Worlds

From an essay that was scheduled to appear in the Spring 2024 issue of Lapham’s Quarterly, Islands. The issue has been on hold since the magazine went on hiatus late…

by Donovan Hohn,

Matt Power: Headlamp a Must

“January 1998. In the windowless office shared by the Harper’s interns, I meet this hippie dude from Vermont: ponytail, spectacles of the sort favored by engineering students, lumberjack shirt.”

by Donovan Hohn,

Remembering Evan S. Connell (1924–2013)

On the life-drawings of an American literary master

by Donovan Hohn,

Can Madison Avenue make us love our government?

Edited by Thomas Frank, Donovan Hohn,

Talking with Tom Bissell

Tom Bissell is the author, most recently, of Extra Lives: Why Video Games Matter, just out from Pantheon. His most recent article for Harper’s Magazine, “Cinema Crudité: The Mysterious Appeal…

by Donovan Hohn,

Through the Open Door

Searching for deadly toys in China’s Pearl River Delta

by Donovan Hohn,

Falling

Confessions of a lapsed forest Christian

by Donovan Hohn,

Moby-Duck

Or, the synthetic wilderness of childhood

by Donovan Hohn,

A romance of rust

Nostalgia, progress, and the meaning of tools

by Donovan Hohn,

The indispensable nation

by Régis Debray,Translated by Donovan Hohn,

This Is My Body, Have Seconds

The following letter was sent to the pope last October by Lionel Poiliâne, a prominent French baker who died in a helicopter crash later that month. Translated from the French…

by Lionel Poilâne,Translated by Donovan Hohn,

It’s a living

by Fernand Meyssonnier, Jean-Michel Bessette,Translated by Donovan Hohn,

J’accuse

by John B. Root,Translated by Donovan Hohn,

L’Esprit du terrorisme

by Jean Baudrillard,Translated by Donovan Hohn,

Anatomy lessons

Evan S. Connell and the documentary school

by Donovan Hohn,

Fleurs du mal

Thorny truths about the global flower trade

by Niala Maharaj, Donovan Hohn,

Floating through life on a cloud of love

by Brigitte Bardot,Translated by Donovan Hohn,

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