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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…

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Noted author and journalist Jimmy Breslin’s most recent book is The Good Rat: A True Story, published by Ecco. There are these sudden loud noises in the hotel kitchen, one,…

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Jeff Sharlet appears on NPR’s Fresh Air today to discuss his new article in the September Harper’s Magazine, “Straight Man’s Burden: The American roots of Uganda’s anti-gay persecutions.” Subscribers can…

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In the spring of 2010, Savannah College of Art and Design (SCAD) Illustration Department graduate students collaborated with Harper’s Magazine art director Stacey D. Clarkson on a project for which…

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Our readers in New York City are cordially invited to attend a new installment in the Harper’s Magazine reading series, focused, in celebration of Spring, upon the theme of Death.…

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Our readers in New York City are cordially invited to attend a new installment in the Harper’s Magazine reading series, focused, in celebration of Spring, upon the theme of Death.…

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Our readers in New York City are cordially invited to attend a new installment in the Harper’s Magazine reading series, focused, in celebration of Spring, upon the theme of Death.…

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On Friday, the New York Times reported that the federal Minerals Management Service (MMS) repeatedly violated environmental requirements when approving oil drilling in the Gulf of Mexico, ignoring and overruling…

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“Everything emits invisible waves, which kill you” could be an update to the old aphorism “everything kills you.” Nathaniel Rich’s article in the current issue of Harper’s Magazine investigates cell-phone…

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Featuring Colson Whitehead, Heidi Julavits, and Sam Lipsyte. To coincide with St. Valentine’s Day, Harper’s Magazine presents “Love: A Rebuke,” a reading featuring selections from the magazine and new work…

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TO: Major Shawn Turner, Osd.mil FROM: Luke Mitchell, Harpers.org DATE: January 26, 2010 SUBJECT: Office of the Secretary of Defense claims regarding “The Guantánamo ‘Suicides'” Dear Shawn – Your response…

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TO: Jack Shafer, Slate.com FROM: Luke Mitchell, Harpers.org DATE: January 29, 2010 SUBJECT: Suicide or Murder at Guantánamo? The shortcomings of a Harper’s Magazine “exposé” Dear Jack, I just read…

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Because of an editing error, “The Less You Know” [Readings, June], an abridged transcript of a December 19, 2005, telephone conversation between Bernard Madoff and executives of the Fairfield Greenwich…

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In his speech before the American Medical Association on June 15, 2009, Barack Obama noted that there is nothing new about the challenges facing would-be health-care reformers: The other day,…

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This year’s Harper’s Magazine Scholarship in Memory of I.F. Stone was awarded to Jonathan Jones, a post-graduate fellow of the Berkeley Graduate School of Journalism. Endowed by Harper’s Publisher John…

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To: Harper’s Magazine From: Dr. John C. Eastman, Dean and Donald P. Kennedy Chair in Law, Chapman University School of Law Subject: “John Yoo Hearts Orange County,” by Scott Horton…

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“Numbers can be made to tell as many stories as a crooked lawyer or an old comedian.” — Lewis H. Lapham, Harper’s Magazine National Correspondent and creator of the Index…

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The German culture magazine Lettre International, true to its name, publishes writing from around the world. Their Winter 2008 issue includes translations into German from Swedish, Italian, Hungarian, French, Spanish,…

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From: Jim Grobe Subject: “What Motivates the Torture Enablers?,” by Scott Horton, December 20, 2008 What got me, as a 30 year veteran of the US Navy, was when Rivkin…

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Suki Kim’s article “A Really Big Show: The New York Philharmonic’s fantasia in North Korea” appears in the December Harper’s Magazine. Kim is the author of the novel The Interpreter…

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Harper’s Magazine & The Center on Law and Security at NYU School of Law invite you to: After Torture: A Harper’s Magazine Forum on justice in the post-Bush era Thursday,…

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Our friend John Leonard died yesterday. John’s first piece for Harper’s Magazine, a review of Renata Adler’s Speedboat and Lovers and Tyrants by Francine du Plessix Gray, appeared in November…

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From a statement read at an event marking the release of Best American Poetry 2008, held last night at The New School, in New York City. David Lehman is the…

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George Michelsen Foy’s article “Bollywood Shuffle” appears in the October Harper’s Magazine. Associate Editor Benjamin Austen catches up with Foy now that the issue is on newsstands. 1. “Bollywood Shuffle”…

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Gemma Sieff is an assistant editor of Harper’s Magazine. The Republicans have succeeded in pitting VP against P, inverting their ticket to leave McCain, with his cadaverously stiff bearing, and…

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Jeremy Miller is the author of “Tyranny of the Test,” the September cover story. The article, which explains how No Child Left Behind has changed the structure of our schools–and…

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I was making my way onto the convention grounds late Wednesday afternoon when I saw an unusually large congregation of black-clad riot police. I noticed as well that a technician…

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No more than a few hundred Hillary marchers were winding their way toward the Pepsi Center Tuesday morning, a few hours before their champion would sweep to the podium. Having…

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